TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(run pkess association. —copynioHT.j j IN A NO-ICENSE AREA. I MASTERTON, February 21. ! At the Magistrate’s Court before Mr Page, S.M., F.C. Watford was charg. ' ed with keping liquor for sale at the , Masterton Club. The case was dismiss- ! ed. H. M. Boddington (secretary of the club) and Watford (the custodian) were then charged with taking part in the era no, management and control of a club in a no-license district, which wa s ' used as a place of resort for the con- ' sumption of liquor and with storing liquor in the club for other persons. ' In both cases the Magistrate said that he would give a written decision. i PURCHASE OF A BICYCLE. j AN INTERESTING CASE. INVERCARGILL, February 21. ■A peculiar case was heard by Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M. to-day when a cycle agent and repairer was charged with carrying on the busneiss of a second hand dealer without a license. The case concerned a stolen bicycle, which hi|d been purchased by the defendant in the course of his business from a man j who gave a fictitious address. The police contended that the person who did any second hand dealing besides his own business, was within the Act, and required a license. ! For the defence, it was argued that tile isolated purchase of second hand I machines did not bring a cycle agent ] within the definition of a second hand ! dealer. If that were so every man who 1 accepted a second hand article in part ■ payment for a new one would require a ' license. Defendant had never before j purchased bicycles from people whom • he did not know personally, and in this case had taken the “name and address ! of the vendor. Decision was reserved. JUDGES SALARIESAUCKLAND, February 21. Several matters affecting Supreme Court Judges were mentioned at the annual meeting of the Auckland Law Society recently. The new president ; (Mr A. P. Richmond) said it might be possible for the society to consider the position of the most eminent members of the: legal profession, the Supreme Court Judges, though possible they might consider it an impertinence for the society to do so. He felt however that the time had come when the Judges should be put in a better position. Then* salaries were very much less than those of Australian Judges, and their duties were much more onerous. They were not so well paid as high officials in tho Railway Department, or, as say, insurance company managers. Tiierc had been no increase in their salaries to meet the advanced cost of living, and it was not right to expect men of the stamp of judges to carry on for salaries which were not commensurate with the duties they had to perform. Another factor was the congestion of work at the Auckland Supreme Court. 'Hie time had come for the appointment of a Judge who would be entirely resident in Auckland, and who would not he called upon to go on circuit work to (Hamilton and elsewhere. AUCKLAND’S ELECTRICAL SUPPLY. \ AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. A scheme formulated by the city electrical engineer proposes an expenditure of £448,000 on an extension of the city electrical plant. The scheme involves the conversion of the existing tramway power-house into a sub-station, and a saving of £20,000, anually is estimated in decreased coal consumption and labour saving. The report has been referred to a committee of the whole Council. MASTERTON RAM FAIR. The Masterton ram fair concluded today. Buyers were present from all parts of the Doinion. The demand for good quality Lincolns and Romneys was very keen.' The highest price secured for the former was 70 guineas, and for the latter 210 guineas, for a ram bred by Mr Eglinton, of Greytown. WESTPORT RACING PERMIT. WESTPORT, February 22. ;Vt a meeting of Buller residents it was resolved to enter an emphatic protest against any totalisator permit being given to any racing club in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales until the day taken from Westport Jockey Club for the Jellicoe meeting at Christchurch is restored. The motion also expressed indignation at the attitude taken up by the Department of Internal Affairs in apparently treating the contract entered into by the Racing Conference and Westport Jockey Club as “A scrap of paper.” GOODS TRAIN WRECKED. NAPIER February 22. A goods train from Waipukurau to Napier came to grief on a curve on the Opapa grade at 11 o’clock on 'Saturday morning. Six waggons of slieep became derailed and piled up. The balance of the train pushed bn * and over them. In all, seven sEeep waggons, and five containing chaff timber and coal etc., left the permanent way. Many slieep were killed and maimed. No railwaymen were injured. A breakdown train was despatched from Napier and the line was cleared by midnight on Saturday. Passengers had to be transferred past the obstruction, and in consequence trains were considerably delayed. The cause of the accident is problematical. A FATAL SLEEP. MASTERTON, Feb. 20, A somewhat sensational occurrence is reported from Greytown, involving the death of a man named Thomas Maxwell Mclntosh, who was well known in Mas-, torton. It apears that Mclntosh went to tho township at 7 o’clock on Tuesday evening, and engaged a room at tho Club Hotel. Ho retired to bed, apparently in good health and spirits. At 1.30 o’clock next morning tlio initiates of the hotel were alarmed by cries for help, and Mclntosh was found on tlve pavement in front of the. building in great pain, suffering from injuries apparently sustained from a fall from some height. It is surmised that the unfortunate man fell from his bedroom window while in a state of somnambulism Ho wsb conveyed to Greytown hospital, whore ho died during the day. L