DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 17, 18 January 1913, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

SLY GROG

(Per Press Association.)

Invercargill, January 18

At the Police Court Edward Hughes was lined £SO for selling liquor in a no-license district.

For receiving an order for liquor in an unlicensed- district, L. Roope, brewer, was fined £6.

THE ROW ON THE MOKOIA

Dunedin, January 17

A sequel to the row on board the Mokoia on Friday, after the vessel had left Dunedin, was furnished in the Port Chalmers Police Court this morn ing, when James Leyden was charged with assaulting Henry Tweedie, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. Accused was fined £lO, with expenses 16s, half the fine to be paid to Tweedie. The alternative was fixed at two months’ imprisonment. DELIBERATE FORGERY.

A man named Harold Charles Phillips was before the Police Court thi« morning dn tilled scribul changes' of forgery and uttering. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Su preme 'Court for sentence.

TERRITORIALS FINED

Westport, January 17

For failure to render the service re quired under the Defence Act, eigh Westport Territorials were fined 20: by Mr. Wyvem Wilson, S.M.

CUSTOMS ENTRIES

Wellington, January 17

The Minister of Customs- has instructed the department to permit th . passing of entries by the Customs at any time within six days of the expected arrival or the due date of arrival of oversea vessels. The new arrangement will naturally he suspended when any tariff revision is in pros pect.

AS OTHERS SEE US

Wellington, January 17

Mr. A. Wilson, who has spent a year in Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of working up a direct trade between the colonies and the Port of Hull, in the East of England left to-day on his return home. Writing to the Press Association Mr. Wilson says, “As I am leaving New Zealand to-day, I should like through your medium to express my gratitude for the generous hospitality which has been extended to me on all sides. 1 have*had a good look round the Dominion, and the evidences of ypur pro gross and enterprise make me feel proud that I am a unit of the British Empire. I am going Home with a broader outlook, and shall endeavour to help rny friends to realise the conditions of life out here. In my travels through New Zealand I have seen no evidences of poverty, but every indication of general prosperity, and 1 am satisfied that you get more out of life than we do at Home. So far as the special object of rny visit is concerned, I am satisfied with the assurances I have got and feel convinced that the opening up of direct trade with Hull will soon he an accomuplished fact. When I have the privilege of coming out here again I hope to he able to sail direct from Hull.’