NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IBy TeleeraDS.-Preej Aaaoclatiokl 4 "FINEST OF ALL GAMES." LOED PLUNIiET OX CRICKET. Christchurch, Hay 3L Replying to the New Zealand Cricket Council, winch presented him with ' ths ball used in the Auckland-Otago Pluuket Shield match, the Governor said that the kindly thoughts oppressed toward! him during the last few days had touched him very deeply. Incidentally, lie expressed the opinion that cricket was the finest of all i-amcs. HOTEL MEALS. •THE PUBLICAN'S LIABILITY, Christchurch, May 31. A country hotclkeeper was to-day fined JES and costs for refusing to supply lunch to a team of cricketers who had arranged for it. "FURIOUS EFFORTS OF A CAT.»A TIMELY WARNING. ' Levin, May XL The Dominion Private Hotel, tetter lmowu as Cheeseman's Hotel, was se- ■ verelv damaged early this morning by fire. The dining-room was gutted and '■ '■m kitchen ami some bedrooms practi--1>" destroyed. The occupants were /..armed by the furious efforts of a cat id escape through a window. They had barely time to get out of the building uninjured, having to grope their way through dense smoke. Both building and contents were partially insured. RECENT REMUERA BURGLARY. ■ PLEA OP GUILTY. Auckland, May 3L Frederick Kearney, the burglar who created something of a sensation at I?«mucra oil the evening of Sunday, May 22, by getting caught as ho was leaving Mr. William Main's house with some valuable jewellery and some odds and ends of a .housebreaker's equipment ir his possession, appeared to answer a charge of breaking and entering and theft, in the Police Court to-dav. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for senteuco. STATE' SWIMMING SUBSIDY. Christchurch, May 31. Sir Joseph Ward to-day promised U renew the subsidy to the New Zealand' Swimming _ Association, which had been left out of the Estimates last year. DUTY ON ANTI-TOXINS. Christchurch, May 31. To-day a representative of MessroT Burroughs, Welcome.and Co. interviewed Sir Joseph .Ward with respect to Customs taxation on anti-toxins, tuberculins, and vaccines, which aro at present ruled io be subject to a 'duty of 22i per cent ad valorem. The > Prime Minister pro* inised to lay the matter before the Minister for Customs. ' GREYMOUTH TRADE, Greymouth, May 31. The exports of coal last week totalled 10,020 tons. The railway revenue for tho month paid to the Harbour Board was a record—,£2oil. SHEEP-STEALING CHARGE. Stratford, May 31. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Albert Pickup Wood, farmer at . Tututawa, and Stanley Appleby," labourer, were committed for trial -on a charge of stealing about thirty sheep, the property of Frederick Bayly, Tututawa, .Bail was allowed, in accused's own recognisance of .£SO and one surety of ifilOO.