WAITARA GAMING CASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 222, 19 March 1914, Page 4

WAITARA GAMING CASES.

SUBSTANTIAIi'TOTO INHJCTED. At the Magistrate's Court at Waitara yesterday, Mr A. Crooke, &M„ gat, hh reserved judgment iff the cases fn which Thomas Hellier and Roy Jury ™ZZ charged with breaches of the Gamin* Act, in that they had kept cenunon gaming-houses and received money for bets on racehorses. Mr A. H. Johnstone appeared for Hellier, and Mr F, & Wtt. so»for Jury. It will be remembered • that when the cases were last called, & New Plymouth, to hear the case far the defence, counsel for the accused eon* tended that the evidence of the book* and betting-cards found on the premises and on .accused coirld"nofbe admitted as evidence, on the grounds that they had been seized by the police in excess of their powers under the warrant, .and further than that, there was no evidence against them. 4 4 The Magistrate, .field that the search of tlie premises and the «T- ,: rest of the accused were virtually carried out ainrultancousiv, and that if the books and cards were seized |j}egally, they could still be used as evidence against the accused. He quoted a casein support of this view. Prom the papers seized it was evident tfcat tb* places had been used ior some time for betting transactions, and heavy penaltics would have to hi- imposed. Tn Helper's ca«e. there was *uff ! c«-ii evidence to convict accusedapart froai the books and cards. On the charge of bavin" '••>"J tit>' ! —»- liouses. both were ennvii S J irhd filiel £25. On two charges ?? v-.-- - --, .' money 1 for bets on raci-lin-s"-. i(<"' ■• was convicted witbn'it ■"">. -, V" '•>' % similar charge against . T ur nrssed. The Mnsristnite r"fi"-" *" '•■• "i .'nd papers seized.

■PERSONAL. The Rev. Father Paul K. Kehoe, of Wexford, Ireland, *vas a passenger tjy the Itiv, rimi on a hol.daj visit to New Zealand. For'the position of engineer to '4hoBuller County Council there were 35 ap» plications, and Mr Morris, A.M.LC.E.,. was appointed.—Presß telegram. Out of. 16 applicants for the position, of the Westport Harbor Board engineer and secretary combined, Mr V. <j. 8.. Sinclair; acting-engineer, wa* anpointed, His Excellency the Governor (the > Karl of Liverpool), with the Countess of Liverpool, the Hon. W. H. Herrieg. • anil Captain Eastwood, A.D.C., leave Now • Plymouth by the mail train, this- morniug for Wellington. The names of Misses Lizzie Dcr.oles,. of Kiiiau. Pemberton, and K. M. Short, of East Tamaki, Auckland, have been added to the list of those awaiting appointment as probationers at the Now Plymouth Hospital. . A Wellington telegram reports thSW death of. Mrs Naomi Warburton, mother of Mr J. K. Warburton, formerly Audi-tor-General. Deceased, who. wis gad 8!) years, arrived in Wjllingtotj. in KMO*' in the ship Martha Ridgwav. It is authoritatively stat:<d that Dr. Chamtaloup will resign liis position of district health iificer in Dunedin. and will; assume the duties of Professor B*c J teriology and Public Health at theOta||o University.—Press Association. A Times-Sydney Sun cablegram from London announces that Mr James Gordon Bennett, the pronrietor of tke Ne.T York Herald, is dangerously ill on W» yacht at Suea. He is famous as the man who commissioned H. M. Stanley to OtA Livingstone, the famous African explorer. He owns a yacht called tbe< , Namouna.

Captain C. K Macdonald. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, has been selected fur service on the staff of the Mew Zealand defence forces, with the grade of second-class general staff officer. Captain Macdonald joined the Royal Warwicks in 11)02, when he was' specially promoted captain into them out of the Leinster Regiment, in which he had . served seven yen is. With the Loinsters, he went through the South Afrlcan war. 1000-2. and shared in numerous affairs in the Transvaal, Orange Fred State (Queen's medal with three clrfipg and King's medal with two clasps), and with the Royal Warwicks in the operalions against the Zal.ka Khel and the Mohmands (medal with clasp). - Tlie late Mr. E. C. Ashbv, of Pergh and Co., Ltd., and' one of tho best-known business men in Christ- ■ * church, was an enthusiastic swimmer and rowing man when younger, and waa one of the first members of the Christchurch Swimming Club. Bowling also < attracted him, and he was one of the original members of the Canterbury ' Bowling Club, of which he was preafdent in ISBR and 1100, and a life member. With Messrs W. Savage 1 , V. W. Parsons and B. Hale, he. won the rink championship of the South Island at ' Dunedin in 1800, but latterly he did net play bowls. He was for manv veara , an active member of the Canterbury Agricultural and' Pastoral Association, and for twenty-five vears was a member of the Ohristcburch Volunteer Fire Brigade, holding the rii nk of foreman for a considerable time. Mr. AshDv waa also one of the original members of the City Guards, f.n-t year he retired from the office of president of the Federal Club, after having held the honor for twelve years. He was not married.