LICENSING ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 14

LICENSING ELECTIONS.

- THE AUCKLAND CANDIDATES . .(? I ..?' £ ' ,KG^Ai'I I~SK:CJAL . ' i 4.1. , Auckland, February 19. As. the-date: for. the : election', of ■.licensing' increasing" interest, is m ;the;poll : city district. Xhe-, return,-xjf 4he. -committee will mean :,that. ; the :;maximiim.- number (14) of ;^hotels/■m r the.city ; ,will;^beClosed. . So far as : has transpired at present tho following aro b^dSes^ ; "'• tiokeW^'and tho - Unitedtemperapco ■' societies •Messrs. graves,. Aickm;(ex member of the' City CouncU ; and,ilarbour' Board, and member of the Chamber.'of ..Commerce), -.'Vrthur Rosser (exofficial of i;he .;iVade3'. Md; t 'LabpUr ;Cquncil), . P. E. Cheal ; the'licensing'.;committeo), ;M-J Ca^OT.;,(m^abei' ! , . s pf .Vthfe;, c ity^C°uncil), and I y o^Hyj constitute the. P~ ], lc eM;ng - committee,-: of which:■ some ■ for. many : years , : ,.T e mperanM ,: Richardson; (a temperance - advocate -and :on several ',occasiohs'"a candidate . for the mayoralty and Parliamentary honours) Citizens' League: DrMi". W. Kimr (mom berof the City Schools'..Committee), Messrs J. 1 i.M./Mennie (member-of-'th'e,Chamber of Commorce, and for some years on tho Harbour Board), /J. J. Holland (ex-Major of Auckmember.,; of Parliament also'.at one;time on the licens:ing;.bench),, L. J.,-Bagnall. (member and ex- ! Education Board, president ..ot.mUMjnbe 1 " of Commerce,' member of the S?.? r ft' all d.VT. C. Somors (member of tho City Council). '. : . .. Independent- candidates: Mrs. Smily Nieol :Mr.-James , Jameson .(ex-membor of the .-Oity.Counc ll , and; Hospital' and .Charitable Aid Board).' ... ■ 'f' 1 ® "trade" has;. decided to support tho .ticket nominated by. tlio Citizens' League. l

-. A labouring . man,, informed a police serHigh, Street;,'Merthyr, that he had thrown'a woman of the 1 unfortunate class named Mary Ann Rees, into a liolo at dis-used-blast furnaces, at. Triygyach, The police searched the;h'olo, which is some forty feet deep, and .there-found, the woman's body : still warm. The head and face were smashed.' After being' medically examined, :th'e body was removed - to : 'the 1 mortuary. ■' to- await: an inquest,-. ..The', man ,was detained at: the police station;' '• -. : WMdsJ ,Groat-- Peppormtnt Cure for Couch? and Colds novor fails. Is, fld. and 25,. fid.' OS 1