NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Prc33 Association.! — » BROTHER'S ALLEGED .CONDUCT. DID HE FIRE THE. HOUSE ? t> H Waihi, December 28. Butler was chargcd at the Magistrate s Court to-day with -wilfully: setting i- to-his-sßtcr-s-housei at-;. Waikino,' which house-was totally destroyed. It was stated m evidence.that -decused returned from •the Thames by the late train Inst night in a drunken state, and heard news which enraged, him.---Tt wrfu • alleged that he thendestroyed, the furniture, poured kerosene about the house, and set fire to it. -.'The case was remanded on. account of-the condition' of \acc?S ti- ? ls slster w .as absent, at'the tifll'a of the fire. !. -. . . . ORDERLY CHRISTCHURCH' CROWDS. • ' i■ i Christchurch, December 2s! Asked as to the. conduct of. the crowds \ ~^ rls ™ a3 time' Inspector Kiely said that it had been in every way esemp. ' lary.- J.e had been in and. about the city on Christmas Eye, and - had been much - impressed.- by 'the orderly behaviour of the huge crowds.- . For'.' sobriety and good-natured gaiety ■'they would- bs hard -to beat;- ... y, . motor-cycling feat. : I m.; . 1 .Christchurch, December'2B. _rhe first journey from Christchurch ta' Jte- i 'T a motor cycle and sidechair has been accomplished by P. Will. ; .berg,-who left -Christchurch on Christ, mas Eve on. a Jl-h.p. single-cylinder ma- : m/mL oov . IVGI ? ht of "the.-two.travellers totalled, stone. The roads were, verr rough in places, hut the journey of about ,j ™ lles , was completed: after. a practi tally non-stop run in. 28 hours. : -HOLIDAYS AND TRADE, m j CHristchurcti, December 2S. To-day, though a Holidays'for .banka'merchants offices, and .various other-of. nces,. was only partly 'observed. ,13usi. ness began -slowly to trickle>.back''again into tho usual channeli, though tradesmen. generally state that practically no- : ■thing is; done till,, the - New ;Tear holidays are over. Jlany of. them- advocato - a general closing-up by- all, except- thoso : supplying the necessaries'- otraife, Vfronj I Christmas Eve. tilli JanuaryX'" . '. TYPOGRAPHICAL. , Christchurch, December - 28. A . conference of representatives' of ths Typographical Unions of. the Dominionopened. at the Trades Hall this- after- ' noon, t Proceedings-were .not. open' to ths press.- ..v.