ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1918, Page 5

ITALY.

ENTRY INTO WAR.

SAVES THE KING TOOM ABDICATING.

Received Nov. 24, 11.50 p.m.

Rome, Nov. 22. Signor Salandra, (ex-Premier) announces that if Italy had not entered the war in 1915 the King intended to abdicate.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

. An elderly man, James Murray, was charged before Mr P K. Hunt, S.M., at Auckland the other day', with having, at Tauvanga, on or about February 8, received from Ernest C4ammon the sum of £0 9fs (id, on terms requiring him to account for or pay the same to the trustees of the late John Cavendish Allen, and that he fraudulently omitted to do so. Accused pleaded guilty. DetectiveSergeant Hammond said the accused—a widower with three young children—bad received the money while acting as •secretary of the Tauvanga Sawmilling Company. When taxed with the offence, he admitted (he deficiency—which he attributed to carelessness, but stated that all monies had been expended on behalf of <lim lieved that tit rssai deftcie.Dsv was mucii larger man , .*atod in the charge. Friends of the accused had offered to make good any shortage. Murray was admitted to probation for 12 months, and he was also ordered to make restitution within, three mouths.