NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 667, 18 November 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By Telezraph.—Press Aesoclatlon.lY ■;..'• -— : o .'.',.,.■ "; .;•'/;'.",-,'v,;'-- •'"■'.-''' ; ; MUNICIPAL BATHS.i ,:>'}; V,y SHOULD CHINESE BE EXCLUDED? p::. /Napier, 17.' V At a meeting of the Napier Borough Council :'. to-night; Councillor Eagleton moved:—"That Chinese bo excluded from the municipal batha . premises." ■He said Chinamen were in the ~ habit of going to the baths, and other persons ' objected. Chinamen were, ho considered, .unfitv . to bathe with the people of Napier. Councillor - Thomson thdught respectable men who pai(J. •■'■• their taxes had a perfect right to; go_to .the, baths. Chinamen were men and entitled.to ':-■: the rights of other men. The Mayor asked Mr, Eagleton to withdraw his motipn,>nd, said, the v matter could surely, be settled.in^mo-other,:,' way. Mr. Eagleton refused to withdraw \m ■■•■.' motion, and gavo. notice to move it at next meeting, 1 ; .',,' ... N SENTENCED. ' Christchurch, November 17> Thomas Creagher, a prisoner who escaped ;■' from Haamer Camp on October 3, and wai. v arrested 'yesterday, came, bofoje. Mr;' Bailey, S.M., to-day, charged with MGng an incorrigible Togue and vagabond.' .He .was i sen- .-'■'...' tenoed to nine months' imprisonment, enma- - lative with the sentence he is now undßt* , going, which is five years for hwsebroalanE.'OVERSTOCKED WITH OUAU.. y • Auckland, November It, Quail are reported to be in stch abundant numbers in some parts of the Piiko and Waikato districts that farmers are expressing an in- " tontion to lay poison for them if i close season ,-'-. is declared for next year. The reports of tho abundance of these birds have travelled ' ta •■■';• Hawke's Bay, Canterbury, ' and Otago, and the Auckland Acclimatisation Society: has : received ; inquiries as to the cost of trapping pome bird* ,'".- and sending them .along toother provinces, ■-~,■;•-.-.,-. FM=TY POUND FINIS. " : '; Dunedin, Nwember 17. \ At the Police Court to-day Wm. Jlocrestar -wa» . j fined JBSO and costs on a cbarje'of betting in a public street on October 14.' |Tho evideno* ': showed that, a constable in' plain clothes of. fered to make a bet on the'streel, and defend- ■;"•. ant agreed, asking the constable to step! inside an hotel where' the transaction was completed. The defence, was that.the bet was -, '.. not made in the street, but tie Magistrate' ! (Mr. Widdowsjn) ruled that an;ossential part' >' 'had been completed there. On a similar charga ' Thos.. Kerwen was also, fined JSO and cosi''..,In a .similar, charge .against Sjdnpy,'Wynne, the evidence showed that when| the l constable. , approached defendant with the tbject of mak> ing, a-bet,, the-latter said: "All right,' but 1 ; ' .-.-. don't bet on tho footpath in hefei'" whereupon the two men went in, to the doorway of the hotel.' In'this'/cas the-MEgis-,.. tr'ate reserved his decision. 'Vi . ••.'. '•■',;' ;'■_. ' ;■; DEFENCE.'•.'■'!■.'■ ■":'■'!■■ ~ Auckland, November 17; C-':. The, Napier Borough Council "to-night una'ni.'; : mously passed a resolution viewing with satis..-.'■: jfaction the Prime Minister's propMal with.re.' :•. ; fcrence to the defence of the Dominion.',.. . :-,'•

ABOUT A STOWAWAY AND ft MISSION

..•"YACHT.;-;: . j ■;-_ ; ~'' '.' .. ■ "■: Auckland, November .17.'-' '.'*•■ '' 'A report from, the Cook Islands states .thai, when the London Missionarj;• Society's -yacht ■;: 'John' Williams left Aitutafi on October 13, .' "■ after .proceeding'eight ot ten it was dis- V covered that a stowaway native woman) war;. on board, who' wished to ■ visit her friends at : v' Eardtonga,, 140 miles distant; There being \' : '■• '■ very stringent,mle,againsticarrying■ passengers, '{.'>: the : steamer put back, and it is. alleged put;'; ■the woman into the sea outside the-roef, nyo v miles from the mainland. The woman had .to,V-;; swim' over ; the breakers' ori'to 'the' reef,' and;:'-' wade over broken ■.'■. coral.' for', soiie distance,!:;-, when she was discovered by a fishing cands;''. and brought safe to. the shored .Much indignaV '. ■tion is expressed by the. natwes-yastors,.'..' deacons, and everyone else-rat Aitataki aVtht"!. • alleged-action;:of->those\'aboard ,'the- mission '•;,'■ steameiv.t v .' v- >---v!: : '"'' ''■.'■'■'■ '■',■'.■ vSV-.'., '■■■" - : AIRE THEYiCOMPETING? ;l ,v : -':'i«" ; .!.;'i".i- '~Vi?-:, SI V' DuiißdinyvNovyinber- 16;- <: y At a sitting of the Conciliation Council'this' morning, Mr., Triggs, referred,.to i statement";': made by a member' of :the. Otago jßmployers'u '-.'• Association that, the commissioners! were, com-:, . peting ,with each other to bring- about' agree-': . : m'onts./ Mr. Triggs said-he. wasvno^. competing':". with any one. ~lf he found.the workers ,in any district getting.less wages thanthe thought,,-.;'. they ought, he' tried 'to.persuade th^' employers'.., •to bring them into Jlin'o.'-with" other districts••;' If he found the workers getting a! fair wage - he tried to get ithem. to agree to aj fair thing,' by the employers. What he was trying to do'..-.', 'was to bring about, a fair, rcasonible agree-. - merit between man and man. . ■''' ';.'" V : '.'''>'.." "'. PRIMA-GE ,0N GOODS.i ' ; ...:, •..'. .Invercarflill, November'l6..'; '■ Invercargill morchanU are strongly of opih«;". ion that the operation'of a 1 per cent primage duty is ,unnecossarily cumbersomo, and should,;,-; be modified in some way.- At a:ineeting of thi ■ Chamber of Commerce /this afternooi, a resolution was'carried asking-that tho Government; ,take-steps : to produce the anioiintql revenue' ': required -by levying a surtax on' one' class; of., goods onrjvor, failing that, to raako : provision',:'. : : ; whereby primage'on-goods.may^be collected'O!'; soon as' they-arrive-in- the Dominion, y ;■•,■;" ; ,"'.: