GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 33, 2 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BUTTER IN OOOL STORES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The quantity of butter in cool stores in boxes throughout New Zealand, as on July 31, is as follows:—Auckland 2265, New Plymouth 343, Patea 230, Wellington 1540, Lyttelton 100, Dunedin 239; a total of 4717 boxes. Eor the same period last year the total in store was 10,894 boxes. PRINTING BOOKMAKERS' ODDS. Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., gave his decision to-day in the adjourned case of the police v. Alexander Wildey, in which the defendant was charged with having printed a document containing a notification, on behalf of a person, on certain horse races to be run. The evidence showed that defendant printed a card giving a bookmaker's odds regarding the Grand National Steeplechase, the Grand National Hurdles, and the Winter Cup. Mr. C-assidy, for the defendant, at the hearing of the case cited the case of Barnett v. Bishop, known as the ''Daylight Case," the court on that occasion having held that it was not illegal to print racing information, unless some person or club was mentioned in the publication. The card that Mr. Wildey printed did not contain the name of the person for whom it was printed. In giving his decision, the Magistrate said that the present case was clearly distinguishable from the ense of Barmett v. Bishop, and he intended to convict defendant. Ho understood that the Inspector of Police, in his capacity of Justice of the Peace, had demanded the production of a duplicate copy of the card, a printer being bound by law to keep such a duplicate copy of everything he printed. '"Why was it not produced on demand?" Mr. Cassidy replied that he did not know. He had no information on that point. The Magistrate, "Very well; the defendant is fined .€lO and costs." VERDICT OF INCENDIARISM. Waimate, Tuesday. An inquiry was held this aftonuxiii into the cause of the recent fire at tho Canterbury Fanners' Co-operative store before Mr. Hutcheson, S«M., and a. jurv. After hearing the evidence, the verdict was that the fire was wilfully caused by some person or persons unknown. BURGLARY AT MOR.VEN. Waimate, Tuesday. I The house of Mr. R. Smith was iiroken into at Morvon on Saturday. The *ufe was opened and £l9 and a quantity of jewellery was stolen. There is no trace ass yet of the person who entered the house. The inmates were in Waimate at the tiime. STATE OYSTER INDUSTRY. Auckland, Tuesday. Tho Auckland oyster season closed yesterday, and there will be no more picking on the northern oyster .beds till May next._ The season hens been closed much earlier this year than is usr.nl, the Marine Department officials considering; that the beds have been sufficient.lv ] depleted by the pickings to date. Mr. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, who is at present in Auckland, explains that the action of the Department in closing the season thus early was necessary mI pill sua.nce of the policy dceided upon two or three years ago. Before the oyster beds were under State control indiscriminate and careless picking almost brought about ruination of the industry. Tho northern oyster beds aw now being nursed buck "to a healthv and productive condition, and when that object is attained the Department will be aWe to cope with the demand from every part of the Dominion throughout the whole season. ,