DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1919, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

COURT CASES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wairoa, Dec. 20. At the Court to-day, the S.M. dismissed one charge against Howard Natrass, of Wellington The offence was against the Animals Protection Act, in Waikaremoana. The Magistrate held that the Governor's proclamation was only operative for one season, and must have an annual notification in a newspaper circulating in the district. He convicted on two other charges of killing pigeons, the fines and costs totalling over £25. Yesterday, Paul Te Urupu was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a native girl named Kahu Pomare, on the Wairoa-Turiroa Road, on November 6, by coming into collision with a party of native shearers, the driver being alleged to have been under the influence of liquor, and not sounding the horn. A large number of breaches of the liquor laws were also dealt with, heavy fines being inflicted in most cases. One case of taking liquor to a Maori settlement was reserved, as the Statute gives no definition of a kaianga.

A CHARGE OF MURDER. i —_ Auckland, Dec. 20. A woman named Constance Holts was arrested at Pokeno this morning, charged with hi ing murdered her child aged two years. Her husband is a railway surfaceman. He left home early to get the Jnaii, and on returning found the'perambulator on a track leading tcv a creek, where his wife was struggling in four or five feet of water, and the child's body was on the bottom of the creek. It is alleged that the woman had been rather strange in her manner for come time.