DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 29 March 1912, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Napier, March 28. The rateable value of tiie borough of Napier for the year ended Marca 31st, 19i3, is set down at £121,297, an increase of £3571 on this year. The capital value of borough property is roughly estimated at £1,9U0,u00. In connection with the Auckland wire to the effect that the payment of 15 guineas by the Harbour Hoard to the Employers’ Association has been passed by the Audit Department, it is worthy of note that the following tag. appears on the Hawke’s Hay County Council balance sheet for 19U8:.“A payment £3 3s to Employers’ Association is without authority of law.” / Carterton, March 28. '> Mrs. Mattie Diddarns, wife of Mr. W. H. Diddarns, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Grey town, died suddenly this morning from neuritis. Dunedin, March 28. i The ballot for the Conical Hills sections took place at Tapanui last night. Twenty-three sections were disposed of. Hamilton, March 28. ; A well-dressed stranger,' Chas; Reed, appeared at the Police Court on. a charge of supplying liquor to a prohibited person. Defendant, who was inebriated, pleaded guilty' and in a laud voice asked if a man was allowed 'hiS liberty irl this country. Defendant lurid he had,travelled in many countries, but had jiiever been treated as ho liad been’here. The Magistrate lined him £3. Defendant: “1 will never pay it.” He had been cooking for the Territorials. He protested that he could not pay, that, the country is in the hands of Wowsers and he would leave its. shores at the earliest possible moment.” His "Worship fixed the alternative at 14 lays: