NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 547, 30 June 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By Telegraph.—l'rcss ABaiidattonJ.

LICENSING LITIGATION*

AN OAMARU ELECTORATE rMfflr. .

, y ~ Dunodlit, Juno 29. t i- the Supreme Court this morning jir. i Justice Williams, on appeal, quashed tho oonviction of Albqrt. Bond, , oonvicteil by iio Magistrate, for giving. an order for liquor ' nit-ended bo taken .into tb© liconsing dis» trictot .Oamaru without giving tho person: to whom tho, order was given' a statement in • i writing of Ins name and addross. The caso ; arose owing to the. alteration of tiro bound- ■ , arios of tlio.Oamaru district, which now W' ; eludes .(iart of Waikouaiti; The Judge held • ! it not to be a district in which No-I/icc:h6© 1 existed at tho. time of the conviction. jfis; i Honour .said that when licenses ccaio to exist, t then, and then only, do Section 14G tt ndl*£' i won 14,, under which Bond was convicted, : ' ! mv ®. an y operation. If No-License is carried 1 . m Novonibor in a district, tho liconsos in the district expire at the'end of Juno m 1 cor i ßc^,, i enco , a nd it iB then that Sections lffl : and 147 come into force in.tho'district. A " BORDER-LINE" HOTEL. , 4( ITS CASE DECIDED.' v'' r 0 ; Dunedin, June 29. ' r th °S«Fcme Court this morning, Mr.,' Justice X\ imams _ heard argument upon i! s ■I? -■ ®" T . of' mandamus, 'ordering the Awarua Licensing Committee to grants to Dempster a license for tho Wail' J tan Hotel, or, in' tho alternative; an ordof' to the committee to hear' and' determine' Dempsters application.. At the annual meet-' ing m 1908 the committee granted twelve licenses, ono of, which was at Woodlands. I3y: the alteration of the boundaries, Woodlands' became included.; in • the Mataura' district,'; where No : Liconso obtains, and at the --'an-'' nnal meeting of the Awarua Committee, oaf June -7, 1909, Dempster applied for a li-i cense for the Waijriwi, Hotel, in the Awarua* district, which the oommittee refused, on . the ground that they had v no jurisdiction' to * grant such application; so plaintiff : prayed"' that a mandamus: be issued. ' After Mr. 11 Neavo had_beeii heard in support, the Judge.' without calling on Mr. Adams, dismissed tH« motion, with costs. ■ ' '■ ; * "MISERABLY LOwi" • LATIN MATRICULATION STANDARD. ;' . • . ; Chrlstchuroh, Jur.o 29. Trenchant criticism of the. Latih matriculai tioa standard was niade in. a letter received from : Professor Haslam by the Canterbury ,: Oollego Board of Govornors, who said that the ' Btandard of . knowledge of. Latin seemed to him decidedly lower than it, was. Some of tho students who had matriculated in Latin, and W"lM' doing Latin for a yoaratcolkge 1 before'the present year, were not fit even now. to have any respectable matriculation examination for any university, and they would ■' not' pasa the entrance examination, of .. aay' good public school at Home.'..H r could only: infer that the: standard of matriculation,'in, the Aw, Zealand. University would; be miser-:. . ablv low.; Some of the students .were not fit to do lecture work, and.simply kept others back. • The board appointed.a.committee to'-' consult with tho Professorial Board on, tht matter. ; '.. . : . • I AFFRAYAT HELENSVILLE. - '" 'ALLEGED STABBING AND AN . - ■ Auckland, Juke 29. . . News was received from Helensville. this evening - that', a■> serious, stabbing auiray had'' occurred -at Kumeu on Monday night, the'' ' victim boing a man niinM'John' Hansen Soott;' Scott and a man'named' John Nelson were' drinking in the latter's wharo and quarrelled, and it is alleged that Nelson, got' on top ' of Scott and inflicted'nearly a dozen wounds on various parts of the body .with a knife. After thb attack Scott crawled into the bush,and' remained 'tbcro ,! all night in an tmoon-' scious condition, 'beihg l discovcriki early this' morning, and taken to hospital. Nelson is !said : . to have taken hk f arrest-very'quietly,' merely reftiarkiiig:'''l- sujbpise lOwill-got. yebr'or tTO v for'this.^^'^j"''"

'BOTTLE LICENSES. : . ; - Dunodin, Juno 29. . Tho ' Ihmodin SouthLioensing Commitiei/. w>-day granted two applications: for . bottle ' licenses; Theso were, the only applications; and were provkjisly adjourned' to "aw^it 1 th 6 ■.' decision of.,the Supreme Court, as fk] city bottle licenses. : In-ooe oase where tho applicant keeps a shop open till 10, p.m. tho oonv ' mittee asked for an 'understanding that the' shop will be closed at' Cj thooommittoo bobc of opinion that, an amount of liquor waa in. the evening to a class of: customora to which they thought it should not bo sold. Mr. Solomon questioned .the authority of th«; oommittoo on this point, and pointed out felt it was asking more-than:-was provided by legislation. ,As a compromise,; applicant agreed to.close at 8 p.m; on week days and, • 9' on Saturdays. Eventually the oommitto! ,loft the-matter in the hands of tho applicant after reiterating the opinion expressed above. .. . >~. • ■ :> THE NEW FREEZING WORKS, i■■■ ~ ■ ' • , Foxtofl, June 29. At,last nights .meeting of . the Harbouf Board, tho .action of .the late; chairman in offering a site for tho proposed co-operatiwi .freezing works at Foxton was endorsed; and the chairman . waS •'authorised to select and ' submit same to the special committee of tho company set up to report on tho question. NAPIER-WELLINGTON RAILWAY ' . SERVICE. Cisberne, June 29. A meeting of the Chamber of Common* •• passed, tho following' motion:—;" That ;th« chamber draws the attention of,the Ministei ' for . Railways to, the proposed alteration in the time-table of the Napibr-Wellington rail- < way, and urges that any alteration, .phiuh will prejudicially affcctythe interest?!.! of tho trapollwg pubho of Gisborno will not be satis- i factory to this chamber." ,', ' BUTCHERS' AWARD! ' . Auckland, Juno 29. An award has beon received from tho Arbv tration Court in the matter of tho dispute between tho Auckland Butchers'' Union' and : thirteen firms of employers. It is stipulated . , that the hours 'of work shall not cxcced 66 in a week and wages are fixed l as'follow:—First shopman, os.; sccwid do.j j£2 155.;oorderr r V man, from 21 t0 : 23. years'of , ago, £2 .7s, Gd-i ditto, over. 23,. £2 : 125.. (Sd. 1 ; general hands, • £2 10s.; first smallgoods' mtfn, "£2.125.. 6d.;' second do.,'£2 6s. The usual clause dealing . with'preference to uiiio'nists is iiicludedi . A TRENCH, A FALL, AND A CLAIM. ; Nalson, June 29. In a ease, Corby v. City Council—a claim for £110 damages for injuries alleged to have boen sustained thtougii falling'-into a drainage excavation—-Mr. Erase,- S.Xf,, gave judgment for defendants "to-day, holding that plaintiff's negligence in attempting; to orosa the trench. contributed to tl:6 accident,, and that tho opening was sufficiently lighted and protected. ; "V , INVITATION TO MR. HOCC. ' , \ < Wanganul, June 29. ''Mr. A. W. Hogg, ex-Mini'ster for Liibonr,, has.beon asked; and.has'consciitcd, to deliver an address at, Wanganui." Hie invitation was sent by representatives of tho Labour .Unions, '• " AN EARTHQUAKE. Tlmaru, Juno 2£|. A sharp shock*, of earthquake, accompaniod by a loud, rumbling 'uoisCj was* reported at Fairlio, and liajnclill,. at 9.35 ou. Mondaj morning. It was, also l'clt at Timaru.

' FOGWELL AND WHKLCH. _ ■ ■/ •; i Wangan'Jl, Juno 29; l'ogwcll intimates his willingness to again measure blades with Wlielch, and says ho can '■ get "tho necessary backing, i'