SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 130, 1 June 1907, Page 7

SOUTHERN NEWS.

A BETTING CASE. I NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. The judgment of Mr. Justice Cooper in the appeals by bookmakers ag-ainsi convictions in ihe S.il. Court for bet tin;: at the Christmas meeting was delivered to-day. The principal gound for appeal on law was as to the validity ot i the borough by-law to prohibit beti tins". In an exhaustive judgment, the Court held that the Borough Council had power by this by-law to prohibit the carrying on of the business of bookinaking at j all times, upon the. reserve, arid, .therefpje i during a race meeting. The appeal wa- J ; dismissed, with £7 7/ costs against api pellants.

BAND CONTEST.

ASHBURTON, Friday. I The committee oi the band cuntest, . to be held there on October !) aud 10, J have decided to give prizes amounting j jto about £225. For test selection pieces j the amounts are: First pri/.e, £G0; ! second. £30: third, £20; fourth, £10.1 For quickstep, the prizes are: First, j £25; second, £1.3; third, £10; fourth, j j £5. For quartettes and solos, gold and , ■ silver medals will be awarded. Entries j I will close on July 6. ROW IN A TWO-UP SCHOOL. j I WELLINGTON, Friday, j ! At the Police Court to-day, Charles I ' Dunn and Frank Morrah. alias James I I Morrah, were charged with having as- ; . vaulted and wounded Gustav Grenberg. ' The evidence of Grenberg was that on I the night of May 4 he went to Dunn 1 : j place, in Elle'a Avenue, where, the two j accused and fourteen others were piny- [ ing two-up. Wituess won £S or £9 ! and then stopped playing. After a. ti-ne • witness went into another room to give j Morrah change for £5. They had a .Us- J J pute, and Morrah struck witness three J 1 times over the head with a bottle, -and I Dunn attacked him with a chair, r<?----j marking "That's how we knock ? «u out lin Sydney two-up schools." Witness was j afterwards in bed five days, and had to be attended by « doctor. The ease adjourned.

j MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

GKEYMOUTH. Friday. By a fiTP to-day. Mr. Robertson's baki cry and dwelling were destroyed. The j insurance on the building was for £300 lin the South British and United. Nothing was held on the stock or furniture. ! DUXEDIX. Friday. ! A tire in a stable to-day, adjoining the i hotue ot" the late Key. Ureliard. caused 'the death, by suliocation. of a horse. ' NAPIER, this day. J A wi-it lor iIOUU for alleged slander j has been issued by Mrs. Angela ElizaLbeth Simson. of Havelock, against ] Charles Thorley, oi Hastings. : MASTERTON. Friday. j At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, Mr. M. Caselberk was elected president. IXYERCARGIUL, Friday. j During April the Bluff shipping was: Inward, 23 vessels, of 4-31,149 tons; outwards, 30 vessels, oi 47.141 tons, an increase over April, 11506, of 477 and 11..322 toes respectively. , TIMARU. Friday. The Harbour Board to-day struck a rate over the rating district of 3-laths of a penny, a reduction of 1-th on last years levy. The chairman asked I the Board to consider at the nest meetjin the raising of the height of the j outer mole, as the recent heavr sea i had overrun it. and caused damage in jthe harbour. j CHXISTCHT7BCH, Friday. I The Hon. J. A. Millar has. expressed himself well pleased with his' tour of the North Island, which has lasted eight weeks. He states that the position of the workmen's homes i≤ now admirable, only one being unlet .at Petone. The others aie aJ] going pff spleadidlj.