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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9467, 9 June 1909, Page 5

The price of hotter in Wellington has been raised to Is wholesale and Is 2d retail. - At Timaru to-day a decree nisi was granted in Kerr v Kerr, wife’s petition, oa the ground of cruelty and drunkenness. When an application came before Dunedin Licensing Committee this morning for a bottle license, the Committee refused the application on the ground that they doubted their jurisdiction to deal with them. Dunedin Licensing Committee today granted licenses to the Royal, Albert and Wain’s Hotels. Four licenses were held over, viz., those ot the Central, Gladstone, Prince of Wales and Rainbow till the 21st and two of these must go. Wain’s Hotel was/ordered to close the back bar and the licensee consented. At Wellington Magistrate’s Court to-day 'Peter Williamson Tait was committed for trial on a charge of having assaulted David McCall and Martha Mundy in a boardinghouse on May 28th. Tait and McCall quarrelled about a letter ftbe former had given the latter to deliver. Tait called McCall names/.whereupon McCall struck Tait, who it is alleged stabbed McCall several times with a knife. Mrs Mundy, the landlady, in attempting to separate the men, Jwas stabbed in the leg. Accused pleaded not guilty. A young man named A. O. Thompson, a grocer, who/had been suffering from hallucinations and was taken to the Wanganui Hospital qn Saturday night, left that institution at midnight lasff night and was traced to the river close by where his body was found at noon to-day by the police. Deceased was highly respected and of a quiet, disposition. He was in a business in Wanganui and was not embarrassed financially. Recently ,he came from Rangiora. He was a native of Tasmania, and was 26 years old. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1b 6d and 2s Cd