NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1165, 28 June 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

SHEFFIELD CHOIR.-HITCH SURMOUNTED. Palmerston, June 27. Owing to a refusal by the Sheffield Choir management to bring tlio orchestra here, the Holiday Association had rescinded the iiroposed' holiday. The local Sheffield Choir executive represented by telegraph last night that failure to bring tho orchestra would prejudicall.v affect the receipts, and l)r. liarriss telegraphed that the orchestra would conio with the choir. Tho Holiday Association has now granted tho half-holiday.

THE HON. G. FOWLDS. Stratford, Juno 27. Tho Hon. G. Fowlds, who is visiting Taranaki on Departmental business, delivered a political address in the Town Hall to-night at the invitation of tho local Liberal League, receiving a good hearing. The Minister dealt with tho general policy of tho Government, and defended the ■ legislation of the present Administration. Ho decried what ho described as tho campaign of wholesale calumny and vilification on tho part of the Opposition leaders. Touching on educational matters, tko Minister paid a high compliment to tho Stratford High School, wnick ho held up (is a pattern to tho district schools of the Dominion. The Minister was accorded ■ a vote of thanks and confidence, and jvas afterwards entertained at supper by. the School Committee.

INTERESTING POINT. Auckland, Juno 27. An interesting point was raised in a ease that came boforo Mr. Keltic, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court to-day. A. P. Miller claimed tho sura of 12s. Gil. from J. Ei Mortimer, alleging that it was due. for rent, defendant having left without giving notice. Mortiiiier said that Jio had given notice to leavo on a certain tlar, but stayed on for another week. This tlw magistrate held to lie an abandonment of notice, and gave judgment for plaintiff fo: 1 the amount claimed, and 9s. costs.

A VACANT SECRETARYSHIP. Palmorston, Juno 27. The Manawatu A. and P. Association received one hundred and eleven applications for its secretaryship. After threo days' sitting, the Finance Committee have j reduced the applicants to three—one each from Auckland, Christchurch, and Oamaru. > :

JURY UNABLE TO AGREE. Napier,. Juno.27. Tho Supremo Court was occupied tho greater part of yesterday afternoon and till lato in the evening with a caso in which a man named Frank Oakley Skcltou was charged with theft of two bicycles. Tho jury were unable to agree, and a new trial will take place on a day to bo fixed to-morrow.

EX-MANAGER GAOLED. Westport, June 27. In the Supremo Court, F. C. Elliott, late local manager of the Westport-Stock-.tpn Coal Company, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for theft of ,£lO9 of the company's moneys. "WHITE PLAGUE" MEMORIAL. Christchurch, Juno 27. Contributions to tho fund for a Coronation Memorial Homo for Consumptives total ,£B3O so far, including two donations of JCIOO each and throe of «SSO each. LAW PROCESS FOILED. Napier, Juno 27. In the Snpre.ne Court John Youn? Hannay, charged with assault and discharging a firearm. with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was acquitted. In tho case against Michael Tuohv, of alleged carnal knowledge, the Crown Prosecutor stated that the principal witness, recently married tho prisoner, and as she declined to give evidence atjninst her husband, tho jury were directed to return a verdict of not guilty. HARBOUR LOCKED IN ICE. Ashburton, June 25. Tho sharpest frost of the' eeason, 17J degrees, was recorded here this morning., Dunedin, Juno 26. There was a very severe frost lost night Portion of the upper harbour was frozen over, the first time in fifteen years. Tho ice was an inch thick. HOTELS-SOME CHEER. Greymouth, Juno 21!. The Grey Licensed Victuallers' Associ.n lion last week expressed satisfaction at tho excellent, police reports presented on tho condition of the hotels throughout the district to the Licensing Committee, and also specially referred to Mr. Justice Denniston's remarks at a Supremo Court sitting on the absence of crime from tho district, when his Honour was once moro presented with a pair of white glovos aa a ioken of the absence of any criminal charges* COPYRIGHT. Auckland, June 26. A deputation from the Association asked tho Minister for Education (the Hon. G. Fowlds) to support a Hill extending the copyright to portraiture. The Minister promised to bring their representations before his colleagues, but foresaw some difficulties.