NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 744, 17 February 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IBy ■ Telegraph.—Press■ Association.) NAPIER LIGHTING.

■, ■ ;■ : ALTKTJISM;.IN -BUSINESS?' ■"- v:; '■[ , "■^■••""■:•-•:-■•;'Napier, Fcbruatyie/ 7 ' .-. 'At. a. recent: meeting of the .Napier Bbp-'.v ough Council.reference.'was madeito<the■'■' Napier. Gas.Compan3-, ; 'o£,whicli.tH© Mayors (Mr; v J.- -Vigor.- Brown)': is -a director.-and itspdealings. J with...the: obuncil.-.-'-As- a'ee-: qiiel,-reports were!presented to the conn-" cihto-night-showing-.that,the iNapiet'Gaa ■ Company: had/.in 1907, .and'aganr,ih> 1908, '■■ reduced.the price of.lighting street lamps.' This was'done.on cachVoccasioh-without" the'.'council:asking!.for- ity/and.ithe total 1 : saving .to.: the. borough '.under- this ! head '-' dunng... the...last, two., seven, months had .been. .£313.185..9d.::.The coin- ■■■ pariy, in 1907. voluntarily.reduced the.pricf ; of 'tar,:.and.the isaving to:the". council -. through this reduction had:been £212 la. ,

V THE- RUTLAND HOTEL, FIRE;- "'[ ■'■*'•■» «, ■.■j W S n e anu . i ' : ' ]? el!ruiiry v -i6." : '' ; ': . ;A further development is recorded in connection- with.', the • Rutland -Hotel' lira'< sensation. The- police, state they have ascertained' that; three parcels wero ship- ' ped-by v Davis to Nelson per-Arapava on , January 11.. . . Advice ■ was \ received: tMe-:'' afternoon that inquiries .in -Nelson: re- > vealed that ■ Btbct i said: by.: Davis to -be ■ worth ■ .£3OO and insured there by him for'••: '■£200 had -been- found, stored in/a- Nelson': auction-room,andthat: he. iad-6rdered. it :• to bo withheld from sa'.r-' pending fur* ther instructions. : < ■ ■ :.-_''.'.:'■ ■'■;"•■.:■•"■'■■ :..

; v.' SOLICITOR; ACQUITTED,:-.^^t "■' ■'■;:- '■.' :■: -jliff' ;: Mr. Cruickshank,, -5.M.,... in,': his judg.'ment in the;, case: against J.: S.'Neaye,: solicitor,; who" was charged ' pny-two- ih< formations ■■'.with.", keeping <sile" and." with; in sly;'grog-selling, said there' waa'no proof that.tho liquor ordered 'was ever in the Invercdrgill IJoLicense ;district, or ;that .it,'.w.as r ;sold.'b3anyone here.,'. .He. dismissed.'boUi'. info!" mations;' defendant;was: not called on to

give evidence.: ■>■;,'■, ■..■-.;.!, V:,:,:; : ;.■':. .'.' ■?■' v ;': v Invercargilli BBbrnaiy'ie. , • In-,the case >in:'!wliich''!J., S.' Neave,- .a local solicitor,, was charged; vitU, keeping liquor ■ for. sale, .the' j: ; magistrate ;t«tday gave . a .WTiten : Ueciaoni:;ioldiM:';that Neave. had.no.case to. answer, aa-.ihepro-secution had failed to prove -essential facts..:. / ■■ •:•;•■•:;,>%'■ U'.i'- p-^

CLOTHING CAUGHT FIRE. ' Dunedm, February 16. Mrs Channer, who was injured through her clothing catching fire in Castle Street last night, died in the hospital this morning.