GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 106, 1 June 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ALLEGED GAMBLING SCHOOL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cbrisk'hureh, Last Night. Detectives Ward, Gibson, Livingstone and 11. P. Kennedy were successful yesterday morning in .happening upon a "sohool" of alleged gamMers in Sydenham. About eleven o'clock, t'lie detectives found about a dozen men, mostly young men, engaged in what is reported to have 'been a game of chance Iwith cards. They also had "two-up" kips, which it is alleged they were about to use. The "school" was discovered in a sort of blind street, and their previous immunity from interference possibly from a mistaken idea as to the innocence of their actions, led to them being caught napping, the outpost that most '"schools"' have being non-existent. The names of the men were taken, and prosecutions will probably follow.

SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL WORK. Wellington. List Night. Major Sarah Young, formerly of Wellington, is' coming from the Melbourne, headquarters 'of the Salvation Army to take up flic .position of women's social secretary in the South Island. ALLEGED FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES. Christelmreh, Last Night. It is understood tihat Frederiek'Marshall, cx-auinager of the United Farmers' Coal Company, who is wanted in connection with certain alleged financial irregularities, ihas been apprehended at Melbourne, and that a member of tho local detective force leaves on Friday to bring Jiim over.

A COUNCILLOR CENSURED. Olirisitcliurehj Last Night. At a meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council to-night, Cr. Webb was called on by the 'Mayor ,to withdraw the statement of "corruption of the worst type" made 'by him at a previous meeting of the Council when the estimates were under consideration. Cr. Webb refused, and a vote of censure was passed upon him. INVERCARGILL VALUATIONS.

Juvercnrgill, Last Night. The Government vaimition for Invercargill, which ereated such a stir among local property owners some time back, came .before the Assessment Court today, when the date for the lodging of objections .bad ipastsed. There were about seven hundred objections nt the Department's offiee, but the revision of the valuations resulted in this number 'being reduced to between three and four hundred. Further heaw reductions were made this morning, when the list wan called over at t.lie Assessment Court more than half of the objectors failing to add their personal support to the protests, with the result that the valuations Or amended valuations were sustained, lhe serious work of the Court was thus reduced to a little over a hundred objections. In eight cases' the unimproved value was reduced liv the Cour ami u!„. amount of -reduction was added to the value of improvements on properties. 1„ nearly every case decision was reserved. In one case the point was raised as to .whether t) R . valua ion, had 'been made in accordance with the r.'overnnient Valuali. f L iin ,i . wt Ulo con culm,, being th.it the man who' had made the assessment was „„t „ .-,°,|,er of -reputed local knowledge." This point wayescrved for argument at a later

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