GENERAL TELEGRAME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAME.

ALLEtiED i.iUICI.. By Telegraph—PrcsH A»s«ciation. Wangariui, Juni* 1. The Supreme Court lio-day in hearing •the libel action, I'atcrs-ou v. Smythe, claiming £IOOO damages for an alleged libel contained in an nmlerwigned letter, allegedy written by ill's SmyUie, concrning the conduct of M-ra l"atci'.s<>n and a Oallegiate «iliooi lx>y. 'Hx; case is proceeding.

SALE OF OPIUM. Wunganuii, June 1. At the Magistrate's Court G. H. Qramt, assistant at a local chemist's shop, was fined £1 and costs'on each of two charges of breaches of the Opium Act. The breaches were unintentional. It is the first of tlie kind heard in Wanganui.

AN UNDESIRABLE CHINESE. Wellington, June 1. A Chinese, All Young, was sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment for keeping a common gaming house.. He bad been previously convicted for keeping a brothel and also for vagrancy.

DEATH ON THE ROTORUA.

s Wellington, Juno 1. The (teath occurred' on the Rotorua fucmi London, of J. Steele, a second class passenger, aged 03, a native ol Ayrshire, Scotland. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter an<l in tended settling in the Dominion.

DUNEDIN UNEMPLOYED. Dunedin ,Tuue 1. A meeting of unemployed general laborers was called for tbis morning. The response did not, it is claimed, indicate the true position of unemployment in Dunedlin. Nineteen married men, with 85 dependents, and 23 single men with six dependents, answered the roll-call. All were able-bodied men, who had stated' that they were anxious for work. It wag resolved that a .epeeial meeting of the union be lieid to-night, and probably steps will be taken to place .the proition- before Mr Massey.

lIOTELKEEPERS WARNED. Wellington, Monday. At the meeting of the Licencing Committee the chairman emphasised that licensees should do their utmost to prevent bookmakers using their premises for tilu! purposes of gaming. In one case the licensee hadi .reduced "the accommodation for hoarders 'below the limit set by the statute, and the bench gave a warning that in such a case the | license migiht be forfeited.