GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 1 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CHARGE OK MANSLAUGHTER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Wednesday. At Port Awanui a man is to be charged with manslaughter as the outcome of an inquest held into the death of a man named John Klein, whd died after a drinking bout. The case will.be, the first of its kind heard in New Zealand.

SMOKE-HOUSE FOR TROUT. Napier, Wednesday. Sir J. G. Ward was impressed, during his recent visit to Taupo, with the waste of trout going on under the present system, which makes no provision for its preservation. Since his return correspondence has been going on with a view to the establishment of a smokehouse for trout. One man has already been engaged as flsh-curer, and another is to be appointed. NAPIER-GISBORNE LINE. Napier, Wednesday. During his speech at the turning of the first sod of the Napier-Gisborne railway, Sir Joseph Ward stated that the actual work of construction would be commenced in about ten days. It has since transpired that the Public Works Department kave completed plans for the authorised section, and that fifty men are to be put on to commence work within the time stated by the Prime Minister. The work is. to be carried out on the co-operative system.

SLY-GROG SELLING. Wellington, Wednesday. On April 23 last the premises occupied by Mrs. Finny Prior as a fish and chips shop werer aided and a quantity of liquor seized. Before the summons could be issued the woman had disappeared, and not till the 24th of this month was she arrested at New Plymouth. To-day she was fined £25, it being her second offence. WHAT IS A RESTAURANT? Auckland, Wednesday. A case of considerable importance "was brought before Mr. Fraser, S.M., by the Department, of Labor, seeking to bring several large boarding-houses under the Shops and Offices Act, by virtue of a clause in the amending Act of 1910 adding to the definition of a shop "and all restaurants" and defining a restaurant as "any premises other than a hotel in which meals are proyided and sold to the public for consumption on the premises." Counsel for the defendant urged that if boarding-houses were included in the Shops Act, the effect would jbe very far-reaching; that every person who kept a lodger or employed help would have to fulfil the obligations insisted upon.under the Shops Act. Mr. Fraser said that in view of the very important issues and the difficulty of the statue he would reserve judgment.