DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2576, 10 August 1909, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

; THE GOVERNOR’S MOVEMENTS-

[Pun Pause Association.] AUCKLAND, August 9. The Governor left Auckland Sunday night by express lor Wellington, on route to Christchurch, where ho . spend the carnival race Weok. Uaay Plunket will also be in Christchurch that week.

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. -The following prisoners, who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court, were sentenced at the Supreme Court tins morning: Thomas Herbert Ellison, aged 17, theft of money from postal packets, and forgery, one year’s hard labor, Alexander Cameron, obtaining money by false pretenses, two years’ imprisonment ; Alexander Hogg, theft from dwelling, IS months; William Dickson, theft from dwelling, two years; J. D. Winter, theft from dwelling, one year.

SLY-GROG SELLERS SENTENCED.

At the Police Court to-day an elderly woman named Ellen keeps a lodging-house in Grey Street, was lined Lot) for sly-grog selling. Richard Fradatavich, who keeps a lodging-house in Hobson Street, was sentenced to a months’ imprisonment for the same offence.

THE COLONIAL OFFICE DELEGATES. Sir Charles Lucas and Mr. A. A. Pearson, envoys from the Colonial Office, who have spent a month in New Zealand, left this evening by the Wimmera for Sydney.

FORTUNE TELLING CASES. The hearing of the fortune telling cases was resumed at the Police Court this morning, Mr. Cutten, S.M., giving a considered ruling on a point previously raised. He said there could be nov doubt that any person getting his fortune told was a party to the offence, and that the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice was insufficient to convict. In the present cases a police constable was the only jrerson present at each interview. [Counsel for the defence had raised the point that a policeman who bad gone to a fortune teller for the purpose of having his' fortune told, in order to obtain evidence against the latter, was practically an accomplice, and that, therefore, conviction could not bo obtained on his uncorroborated testimony.] THE VICAR OF LEESTON. HASTINGS, August 9. The Rev. Gordon Biddle, vicar of Lceston, Canterbury, has been invited to take the position of assistant priest, vacated by the Rev. Mr Ivavll. THE HON. R. McKENZIE.

DUNEDIN, August 9. The Hon. R. McKenzie on Saturday visited Cromwell, where he received a number of deputations concerning wants of the district. The Minister subsequently proceeded to Arrowtown, where he was entertained by local residents in the evening, receiving a most cordial reception.

ALLEGED FALSE REPRESENTATION. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 9. In the Magistrate’s Court this morning an information against E. G. Norton Taylor, of obtaining money by false ly representing himself as authorised to collect- for Arthur CleaYe, of Auckland, was dismissed.

A BURGLAR CAUGHT. WELLINGTON, August 9. Richard Thomas Power, a young man, was arrested bv Detectives Haminnod and Cameron late on Saturday night, on a charge of burglary. He had Skeleton keys and a bag of coppers when coming out of a shop in Willis street. At the Police Court to-day lie was charged on ten informations with breaking and entering various premises. and on one information of theft-. To the latter he pleaded guilty. It was stated that the skeleton keys found in his possession would open the doors of all the premises mentioned in the informations. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on the charge of stealing.

FIENDISH CRUELTY. IvTASTERTON, August 9. It has been reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that some rabbiters skinned a number of rabbits alive, and let them go to see how far they would run with their skins off. It is anticipated that it will not- be a difficult matter to secure sufficient proof to warrant court proceedings.