NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

!Dy Telegraph.—Press Association.) 4 THE DANNEVIRKE "DETECTIVE." i Darnevirke. Mav 24 Ernest Roland Birdling, who lias been posing aero as a detective, appeared at tlio Magistrate's Court chargeuwith, vagrancy and imposition, by wiricli ho had obtained tho use of a motor-ear by fraud refund 5 remauUeil for a week > ,>a 'l being LIQUOR IN A DRY AREA. Ashburton, llav 24. l or some months pate the police have been actively engugeu in running to earth persons suspected of carrying on an illicit Irado iu litjuur,' nud several successful prosecutions iiavo taken place. To-day a raid was made on premises situated iu a residential quarter oi the town, and l'ortylour bottles ol' beer wero discovered tod, don -undor tho kitclieu lloor. Tho quanta ties uro tho largest yet found in any one particular raid. A prosecution will follow, A PUBLICAN FINED. Hawcra, May 24. Tho Magistrate to-day fined Walter Valentino .£ls lor having, whilst being tho holder of a publican's licenso for tho ilanutahi Hotel, sold liquor to a person who was in a state of intoxication. , Tho magistrate decided that the case was a bail one, but the license would not bo endorsed, r.s tho licensee ltad transferred it to another person.

STEAMER'S ROUGH TRIP. Dunedin, May 24. The Kainpoi arrived to-day from New-, castle, eleven days out. She encountered boisterous weather, and was Love-to twice for eighteen hours and forty-two hours. The gales wero terrific. No damage was done.

HARBOUR ELECTION CASE, Hastings, May 24. The petition to declare Mr. Lustaco Lane's election as tlie Easting's representative of tlic Napier Harbour Board null and void on tlio ground that his name did.not appear on tlio Hastings municipal roll was heard by Mr. 11'Ca.Tthy, S.M., to-day. Counsel for Lane wmfendcd that his, client, by virtue of his name being on ths Napier toU was entitled to a seat on the board as the bastings representative, he being "a person entitled to vote at an flection of a member of tha board," and tho qualification set out in Section 16 of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910. Decision was reserved. .

MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED. Auckland, May 25. Proceedings in tho trial of the woman Sarah Eliza Skellon, on a charge of the murder of Minotaur Caroljnc Bush, 10 years of age, as the result of an illegal operation alleged to have been performed by prisoner, were continued nt tho Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Cooper yesterday. Tho proceedings were continued until a late hour. The jury found prisoner not guilty and she was discharged. The charge against Skellon of having performed an illegal operation has yet to be heard.