SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 1 July 1904, Page 2

SPORTING.

VICTOHTAN BETTING. (Per Press Association.) MELBOURNE, Juno 30. There is not a great deal of hotting over the Crand National Hurdles. Adjuster is favourite, the best offer against him ibelng sto 1. Suout, Kudos, Acrobate are 10 to

A BOOKMAKER'S APPEAL. j WELLINGTON, June 3Qjf"' The Full Bench of the S>u/re mo Court is hearing an appg-gT from the conviction at CtorStohurch of 1' airbairn, a bookmaX,,,-, who was nontenced by to a month s 'for refusing to leave when warned off wa insisting in fretting. Questions ore raised as to the validity of the Regulations made liy the trus- ! tees of jthe course, and tho legality of the sil-ntonce of imprisonment. The caso i?' tt test one, forty other informations depending on it. Mr/Harper, f or the appellant, contended that tho regulations on tho Christchurch course are invalid because they do not prohibit betting generally, but only by a particular class. They were solely intended to protect the t'otallsator, and not to maintain good order. He also argued that the Legislature never contemplated that a broach of regulations should turn an offender into a criminal, and expose him to Imprisonment. Mr Stringer, for <}ie other side, contended that it was not necessary that what was prohibited »hould necessarily bo a nuisance, but that If carried to a certain point it might become a nuisance. The appellant by persistence In disrvgnrding warnings had become a wilful trespasser, and as such was liable under the Polico Offences Act to imprisonment. Tho court reserved its decision.