GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 220, 17 March 1914, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

•AN ■ EXPENSIVE QUENCHER.. Tiv Telegraph—Press Association. • Rotorua, Last Night. _ •' A foreigner who arrived in thu .Ti£i ntinion only at the New Year, and who pleaded ignorance of the law, was coiSF < viftted and discharged' for having supplied a Maori with liquor off licensed premises. The Maori who persuaded hiin to purchase ..the liquor was, however, i'med £25; • •, A STRIKER STRUCK. Auckland, Last Night. . Quarrels between Arbitrationists and Federationists are of almost daily occurrence in the city, and men are constantly appearing in the courts charged with breaches, of pi\u:e, assault, etc. Two : cases were ventilated in the Polics Court to-day. In one case Thomas., Bates,' an ex-striker, was charged wi.th assault. It appeared that he me,t a man named Hargreaves, an Arbitrationist, and allowed Hargr.eaves to see. a photograph of the Strike Committee in which lie (Bates) figured. Hargreaves remarked disparagingly that "it was a wonder the camera didn't break!" Bates was so angry that lie struck Hargreaves. The latter promptly retaliated and blacked Bates' eye, knocked him down and sat on him until a constable came and took him to the jocklip. Ba.tctj complained that a witness who supported Hargreaves' statement was biassed against the old watetsid-s workers, who "were victimised men and not allowed to,live." The Magistrate sentenced Bates to. seven days' imprisonment.

In the other case, an ex-waterside.' was found guilty of using obscene language, and was fined £2.

TIMARU ITEMS. Timarii. Last Sight. A quinnat salmon, eleven pounds in weight, was caught at the mouth of the Rangitata on Sunday. Quinnat salmon were turned into the Waikato ''some years ago from the Hakatarariiea hatcheries, but only a few small ones have hitherto been netted: The Timaru ambulance Collections in ihe town on Saturday amounted to •C 230 (last year, £193); The country collections a*e"due. a fortnight later,