INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 35, 10 August 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS-

(PER PBEBB ASSOCIATION). Auckland, August 0. Inspector Hickson continues his raid on houses of ill fame, The couusel for the accused, who had been previonslj fined, got an adjournment with a view of testing the validity of tho citj by law in the Supreme Court. The City Council support the Inspector, and will furnish counsel for him to sustain his action. Detectives Henderson and MoGrath, this morning, arrested two men named Burke and Hunter, who were just leaving by the North express train, on a charge of victimising a man from the country, to , the extent of £4 10s, by the confidence trick. The police authorities have sent Dr Lindsay to Rawene to make a post mortem examination on the body of the Maori woman alleged to have been beaten recently by her husband. To-night, at the Auckland Tabernacle, at the Rev. L. M. Isitt's meeting on the Direct Veto, fourteen hundred people were present. The following resolution was unanimously carried :— " That in view of the Bill now being considered in the House of Representatives, this meeting urges tho House to give the people the control of the liquor traffic by means of the direct vote." Chbistchchch, August 9. At tho Residont Magistrate's Court today, Mr Beetham gave judgment iv the cases heard against Eden Georgo, for allowing meetings to bo hold on Sundays iv tho Turam street Hall, of which he is the lessee. Tho Magistrate said he did not think the Council could anuox conditions to tho license which tho Legisla ture had uot imposed. Ail the council could do was to issue a hcenso for a certain period, and should it refuse to issuo one there was a right of appeal given to tbo applicant. Defendant had a liceneo. It might bo bad iv part aud good in part. He could eliminate tho bad and uso tho good. The informations were dismissed. Wellington, This Day. Sixteen out of nineteen Wellington chemists have petitioned tho Government iv favour of the Wednesday half.hohday, providing they are allowed to remain open two hours in the evening. The Grey Valley Company have refused to accept the offer of the Governmeet for a i! to i." subsidy on the amount expended by the Company in laying a tram, way to connoct tho 28 aero block at tho buck of Wo.stport with tho company's coal scroouH, on tho grounds that the Govorntuont intomi to incroaso tho royalties in 1894.