DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1921, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association Timaru, Nov. 17. James R. Hayne, chemist, Dunedin, was charged before Mr. Mosley with having attempted to procure a miscarriage. Chief Detective Bishop prosecuted and Mr. R. Irwin (Dunedin) represented accused. It was decided to continue the inquest first. Doctors' evidence showed that abortion had taken place several days prior to the'examination. EVADING THE CUSTOMS. Auckland, Nov. 17. In the Police Court, Frank Dawsey, who was discharged yesterday on an information under the Customs Act charging him with having smuggled jewellery to the value of £7O, again appeared to-day charged with having concealed dutiable goods on board the Waiotapu. Dawsey had signed a list, but failed to declare £7O worth of gold-wire brooches brought with him from America. The goods were concealed in an overcoat belonging to a member of the steamer’s crew. Accused was fined £lOO or three months’ imprisonment. v SEXUAL PERVERTS. Christchurch, Nov. 17. Professor ,Shelley, lecturing -at the College House refresher course on “The Power of the Unconscious,” in the shaping of character, said the influences which produced sexual perverts could mostly be traced back to the impressionable infancy of the subject. Public attention at the present time was directed to the prevalence of sexual crime, and the thing was serious to the last degree, but the cure did not lie in brutality. The use of the cat o’ nine tails was urged as a preventive and deterrent of sexual perversion, but he considered flogging for such offences was utterly useless, and in point of fact flogging in some eases was an actual stimulus to sex activity. The use of the cat/ o’ nine tails in such cases was crude barbarism. The thing to do was to place such persons under observation and ascertain if possible the cause of their depravity. The cat o’ nine tails would never turn a man’s mind to higher things, all that would be done would be to make him more careful of discovery in the future. LAW ABOUT CHEMISTS. Wellington, Nov. I7w Decision in the case ol the Pharmacy Board against Coy Gordon to recover the penalty for an alleged breach of Section 38 of the Pharmacy Act. 1908, wa* delivered to-day in t'he Magistrate’s Pourt. The defendant was the proprietor of two chemists’ shops in Wellington, and on each is the sign "Cox Gordon’s Pharmacy.” He is not registered chemist, but employs a regintered man, and the Magistrate decided to convict him. but as I he case was a test one. and the defendant had enrolled a. manager, only a nominal penalty of 20s and .costs was inflicted.

During the Budget debate M. Hcrriot, leader of Radical Socialists declared that the only remedy for the present situation was a levy on private fortunes by means of a compulsory loan. “Make Germany pay first"’ shouted members on the extreme right. “That is also included in my programme/’ replied M. Herriot. PRICE WAR ON THE CLYDE. London, Nov. 16. Following the breaking of! of the association between Scottish and English steelmakers, a price war has begun, the latter offering Clyde firms ship-plates and angles 20s per ton below the Scot--1 tish prices. This has resulted in instructions to shipbuilders to carry out suspended orders. INDO-AFGHAN NEGOTIATIONS. London, Nov. 16. X A further serious crisis has arisen between the British Mission conducting the Indo-Afghan negotiations and the Teheran Government. The main obstacle is the Amir’s insistence on his right to treat with the Bolsheviks. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. A WOMAN’S DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Pahiatua, Nov. 17. Marie De Jersey Littlejohn, a married woman, aged 33, was found hanging from the rafters of a cowshed at a friend’s place. Her husband, who is employed on public works, is under transfer to Wellington, and was packing up. Deceased was under medical treatment for nerve trouble. An inquest will be I held to-day. DRUNKARD ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Pahiatua, Nov. 17. .Arthur Isabert Carr, an elderly man, living in a whare at Aohanga, attempted I suicide by cutting his wrist with a knife and inflicting a flesh wound near the heart with a needle, as the result of a drinking bout. He was medically treated at Pongaroa, anti camo before the court here. He was. ordered to come up for sentence when called upon and a prohibition order was issued against him. He broke a pane of glass in his roll with a boot, and was ordered fo pay the costs. ANOTHER WOMAN’S SUICIDE. c Blenheim, Nov. 17. Agnes Jane North, aged 42, a married woman with four children, committed suicide at Havelock by taking poison. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. THE DUTY ON BANANAS. By Telegraph. Press Assn Cop.vrlC'ht. Melbourne, Nov. 17. The Senate by IS votes to I) adopted a motion that duty on bananas be Ad instead o-f Id as requested by the House of Representatives. INSOMNIA AND NERVE STRAIN. Frank .A. Greenwood, Esq., Litt.D., Headmaster. East Morton School, Bingley. Yorks.. Eng., says:—“l have found Dr. Cassell’s Tablets excellent ?s .1 means of overcoming insomnia and that nerve restlessness which so frequently follows mental strain. They brace up iho system and give a sense of fitness which is wholly delightful.” Prices in New Zealand, 1/9 and 4/-. All ChenreU and Stores, 4 Country Amateur Photographers, mail me your* requirements or your films to develop and print. H. J. Abram, the ■•lifoii OrdAx” Chgja.M. PXvwouth,