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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 122, 14 October 1902, Page 4

At the conclusion of a betting case ' in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court last week Mr Beetham, S.M., made strong comments against the totalisator i He said its sanction by the State was ruining the country. If there was not the totalisator there would be no racing, and a very good thing, too. It gave the Court a lot of filthy work, and he did not see his way out of it. He was perfectly sick of the whole business. As examples of overcrowding in Sydney, Mr T. A. Coghlan mentions tvo boarding-houses, one a three-room-ed and the other a seven roomed dwelling accommodating 48 and 71 persons respectively. A unique strike began on July 29bh at Trieste, where the waiters demanded the abolition of the tipping system, declaring it to be a degrading custom, incompatible with the dignity of their occupation and insisting that the proprietors ought to pay . regular wages. The proprietors prefer the tipping svsteui, which they flatly refuse to abolish. In consequence, no A-aiters appeared to serve at the restaurants and cafes recently, thus causing endless inconvenience Nevertheless, public sympathy is on the side of the strikers. The special remainder in Lord Kitchener’s new peerage to his brothers reminds the “Westminster Gazette” that two other eminent generals (Lord Wolseley and Lord Roberts) are the holders of peerages with special remainders. Lord Wolseley’s viscountcy was created with remainder to his daughter in default of male issue, while Lord Roberts’ earldom was conferred on him in special remainder to his daughters. It is of interest to kno»v that tK baronies conferred on Lords Wolseley, Roberts and Kitchener were ordinary hereditary peerages. The special remainders belong to the higher peerages to which they were advanced.