DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1922, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGES AGAINST BURGLAR.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 24. David Davies, the man whom Detective Kemp found in his residence and chased and captured, is to have fourteen charges of breaking and entering preferred against him when he appears in court on Wednesday. The total value of the alleged thefts is nearly £lOOO. FIRE IN ROTORUA LAUNDRY. Rotorua, July 24. A fire early on Sunday at Smith’s Laundry destroyed a large quantity of linen, etc., belonging to the King George hospital. It is estimated the value is £3OO. The fire partially destroyed the building. The insurance is £lOO in the Australian Alliance on the building. POWER FOR DANNEVIRKE. Dannevirke. July 24. The Dannevirke Power Board has decided to take a poll of ratepayers on loan proposals for £175,000 for the reticulation of the area under its control and preliminary charges. MAGISTRATE’S DECISION REVERSED. Christchurch, July 24. In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Adams allowed an appeal by Mrs. Dunshea, maternity nurse, against a decision by Mr. M'Cartjhy, S.M., in a case in which F. D. Kesteven, moneylender, sued her for the sum of £155 on three promissory notes which an agent named Black had induced her to sign. When the case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court it was shown that Black sold a section belonging to Mrs. Dunshea. He paid the purchase-money in inc stalments, and on receiving each instalment she signed a form, which Black alleged was a receipt, but it was a promissory note. The promissory notes had been pasesd on by Black to Kesteven for valuable consideration. The Magistrate held that Black procured Mrs. Dunshea’s signature fraudulently, but that Kesteven was a holder in due course of the notes, and gave judgment for the sum claimed by Kesteven.