NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 15 July 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . . —0 . a ■ THEFT FROM A MINE. • . ' Reeft'on, July 14. The police have received word that' two plates, valued at ,£l5O, have been stolen from the new Alpine Mine at Lycll to-day. ■' THROWING OPEN 5000 ACRES. Christchurch, July 13. The Lands Department is throwing open 54G5 acres in .Canterbury for closer settlement next month. .. . BUILDER FINED. , Auckland, July 14. At the Magistrate's Court to-day John Fleming, builder, of Grey. Lynn, was fined ■ClO, with 'i'l. Is. Bd. .cost's, for a breach of the Auckland Carpenters' and Joiners' award in that he failed to pay two men in his.-omploy- their wages as required by tho award. " ... THE WEATHER. ■Napier, July 14; The weather appears ,to be improving, and reports oh the -state of the. rivers are reassuring. - ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.. Christchurch, July 14. A -burglar has. been operating here for tho past months during which period many business premises have been entered. A man was arrested on suspicion by Detective Osborn to : day. Accuscd, who is about twenty years of age, had a jemmy and a- six-chambered revolver in . his possession.. FIGHT PICTURES AND GAMBLING. Duncdin, July 14. j At a meeting of the Temperance and | Morals , Committee. of ' tjie Methodist i Church of New Zealand a resolution was | adopted calling on tho Government to introduce legislation providing, for the] abolition of the totalisator and bookmakers, • and for the refusal of the post i office to. carry correspondence for 'i'attersalls. A resolution was also adopted, protesting against the exhibition of the Reno fight pictures in New Zealand.