DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1914, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS. [Per Press Association. 1 Hamilton, February 9. During the hearing of a case in Hamilton to-day, in which George Bodley, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, was charged with employing an unregistered barmaid, Mr Gillies, counsel for the defence, said it was quite a common custom in Auckland to employ unregistered maids as assistants in the bars. The Magistrate ?>ir Rawson) said two wrongs did not make a right, and fined accused £5 and costs. PUBLICAN MUST PROVIDE MEALS. Wanganuij February 9. A hotelkeeper's obligation to the travelling public formed the crux of an interesting ease heard in the Court to-day, when T. J. Hodder, licensee of the Upokongaro Hotel, was charged with having refused to provide a meal for two-men who arrived at the hotel about midnight. They asked for supper, but the licensee said lie could not awaken the servant that hour of the night, and also refused bread and cheese. The licensee, in evidence, declared the men did not insist on obtaining food. The magistrate inflicted a fine of £5 with £3 8s costs. ' He remarked that hotei'keepers : had great privileges, hut sometimes they forgot their obligations to the public. It was, a. case of this sort that gave a handle to tl'.e prohibitionists. THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. Wellington, February 9. Sunday's earthquake seems to have been felt most severely on the eastern side of the city, many articles in private houses being shaken down. though no serious damage occurred. Clocks stopped very generally, and the old destructor chimney swayed considerably. The building which appears to have been most severely damaged was the Town Hall. The municipal organ was badly shaken, and was not fit for playing upon this morning, but the city organist says there is no structural injury to the organ. The ceilings of the Mayor's room and several other rooms, and also of the main corridor on the first floor, all showed numerous cracks gaping through the plaster. The city library in Mercer St'vet. wiiich in the 1904 earthquake suffered as se- , verely as any building in Wellington. came out of yesterday's ordeal, so to speak, without a scratch. The strengthening of the walls and foundations after the last shake stood the test splendidly. INCREASE CF TUBERCULOSIS. Xapier, February 10! The Hospital Board discussed the increase in the numb •;• of cases of tuberculosis, and decide 1 to urge upon the Government the necessity of providing a sanitorium for tuberculous -;.ises on the East Coast from Palmersr.in to Fast Cape. A BURGLAR'S CONFESSION. j •Napier, February 10. David Conway Burn and Richard Carpenter pleaded guilty to a long list of burglaries committed in Napier I during last winter. Carpenter, who j was arrested in Auckland, made a | full confession, giving the time and. date of each burglary, and the list of articles stolen. Tho-prisoners were committed for sentence. I

TRESPASS ON THE RAILWAY. Oreymouth, February 0. An echo of the strike was hoard when 10 persons were charged with trespassing on the railway at the Stillwater mine when an attempt was made to fire the coal-bins there. The whole of the defendants pleaded guilty through counsel, hut did not appear. The Magistrate said the charge was a subsidiary one, and should have been of "unlawful assembly," or one of damaging property. One man, who rode a horse up and down between the rails, was evidently the leader. and he was fined £2. The others were convicted and discharged.