NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By ToJoffraph—Press Association.) _ 0 ~ A PECULIAR CASE. Y.W.C.A. COLLECTING INCIDENT . Auckland, September 14. A respectably-dressed man named Honry Willoughby Joyce, 48 years of age, came before Mr. F. ,V. Frazer, S.M., yesterday morning charged thai ho obtained half-a-crown by means of false pretences and was remanded. Chief Detective . M'Mahon remarked that ofhor charges were pending. The allegation from the police side is that Joyce illegally joined in the Y.W.C.A. fund collection campaign. Joyce ni>« proached the committee and expressed a desiro to be put on the list of collectors, but the request was declined on tho grounds that ho was. not personally known to. tho committee. Ha was subsequently seen to be engaged in wnat looked suspiciously like tlio ; work of colecting. Consequently Dotectivc Soott arrested him wlion he had ill 1 his possession a book which was riot an official collection book, indicating ; that ho had received for tho Y.W.O.A. an amoimt of £4 in sums ranging from' 6s. down to 2s. Joyce stated that ib' was his intention to hand tho money over to the proper quarter, but tho cash? on him at the time amounted- to only 4s. 9d. , - SHEEP & SHIP CO. FAILURE TO LIFT THE LOT. .! ! CEsborno, September 12. A oase' of interest to tho shipping; , community was opened in the iiagis-l trate's Court to-day, tho Canterbury vSteam Ship Company suing Dalgoty and Co. for £34, freight on 272 sheep shortshipped by tho steamer Petono from . Gisborne to.Lyttelton. Arrangementa; wero made' by the defendants for tho j Petone to take a full load of Bheep, and ; j only 1228 were shipped. .-Plaintiffs con-;-- ! tended that-the vessel could have car-;- ! ried 272 more,'and claimed accordingly.! It was contended for the.defence that; j tho sheep shipped wero largo primo | sheep, the largest shipped from Gis-, - I borne during the season, and tho utmost that could bo carried. It would " ' have been criminal to-have placed sheeg- • ; on the foredeck in- view of the weatherj ; 1 and the fullest' number consistent witj • safety was sent. : CANTON MISSION. PRESBYTERIAN "EYERY-MEMBER CAMPAIGN." Christchurch, September 12. • Rovised progress totals in comioctiofl with tho■ Presbyterian _ Church "every;. ; member campaign" in aid of tho Canton Villages Mission show, that 150 out of 210 churches havo collected £2481. Tho details are:—Auckland, £180: Wanga- . nui and Tarauaki, £246; Hawko's Bay, ■ £10; Wellington arid Wairarapa, £176;,.' Canterbury, £1086.;.,- Southland, £65;„, Otago, £610; Westland and ■ i £51; Buudry subscribers, £5. : BOROUGH COUNCIL AND SVOCtC . DRIVING. Ctirißtcliuroh, September 13. . t . Mr. Bailey, S.M., delivered reserved! judgment in several cases arising out of - informations laid under the RiecartoivBorough Council's by-laws relating to tho driving of stock to and from tlio Addington salo'yards. Tho magistrate said the facts wero not disputed. Tho: defence raised was ; that tho by-laws... were ultra, vires and unreasonable. After., reviewing the evidence, ha had. conio to'tho conclusion, tliat the restrictions--wero.unreasonable...-.ljcgarding.tho legal,, aspect, he said it was not at all clear ■ that tlio Borough Council had pewer to r limit the hours during which stock ' might be driven along tho streets. Power , was given, under Section 344 (2) of the , ; Municipal Corporations Act,- to prescribe tho route by which cattlo may bo ; driven, but nothing'was said about tho. timos, and any power to mako by-lawa as to >t-ime> was by inference only from other sections. , All the informations ■ wero dismissed. Counsel'for tho Bor- • Council .said that he could not at , tliis stage definitely stato that appeal would bo made, but ho asked that in. l caso of an appeal tho amount of security required, should be stated. Tiio amount was fixed at £5 ss. for each caso. , 1 A VENTURESOME BAD BOY. Auckland, September 13. •A boy aged thirteen years was charg. Ed with having stolen a bicycle at Pal- ■ merston North, and waS remanded till Friday ponding inquiries being made at Palmerston and Wellington. Tho boy stated that some weeks ago ho ran away from his stepfather and stepmother in Wellington, and got to Nolson on a ' boat, but was sent back to Wellington '• by the police, and wandered about for a day or two. He then travelled to • Palmerston ill a truck on a goods train, saw a boy leave a bicyclo outside a pic- , turo shoiv, took tho machine,. and rodo. , to Marten. Thcro ho gavo himself and ' tho bicycle a freo rido on a goods train, ' and by riding and occasionally stealing rides at the Government expense, ha. got to Auckland. " , SUNNYSIDE INQUttV-.Vi Christchurch, September 14. Sir. V. G. Cay, S.M., tho Commis* ■ sionor appointedwy his Excellency the:. Governor to'hold an inquiry , into cer- ;i tain allegations regarding- tho treat-.-mont of patients' at Sunnysido Mental .. Hospital, has fixed September 25 as tho dato of opening of tho inquiry, and at the Provincial Council Chambers,; > Christchurch, at 11 a.m.. The inquiry is int-o tho treatment in Sumvvside Mental Hospital of the late Wifliam Alex- • andor Tribe, tho' late James. Howie, tlio'' late • Sidney .Lionel Barrett; 'arid ;Lewis'" Allan Gourlay'arid Daniel Hcrlihy. TRAVELLERS ORGANISING. Chrlotoliurcb, September. 13. • A conference of representatives of th«i'' Commercial Travellers' and Wnrehouse- | men's Clubs'and Associations was held ' to-day and- was attended by delegates. 1 'from Auckland, . Wellington, Christ- '-, .church, and'Duncdin.. It was practically decided to establish one united body of commercial travellers and waieliousemen for tlie*'whole Dominion. . £0500 IN THREE DAYS. "', 'A|lcUleh<Jr•.Sopt-ember 12-,.' a Up till ,n00ii,.,.t-a-clny the Y.W.C.A..... Building campaign, fund liad resulted',, in a collection of £6500 -for' three days' j"-work. . .