DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

SUSPICIOUS I'll! liS. By iolograph.— Press Association. Auckland, May 10. Fire destroyed Wilson and C'unhani's feihnongory at Panniurc, together with wool belonging to the Government valued at £4OOO. The outbreak occurred some hours after the men hail ceased work. There was a similar fire at Feilding, and strange happenings at another Auckland fellmongery, so the cireilmstances are auspicious, and are being investigated by the police. A MURDER CHARGE. Christchurcli, May 18. The trial of Charles Butler, who is charged with the murder of Henrietta Foster on a farm near Oxford, is commencing in the Supreme Court. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The evidence was similar to that in the preliminary trial. The Crown case will last all day. FROZEN MEAT IN STORE. Wellington, May 16. The quantities of frozen meat in store on April 28, for which no shipping space allocations have been made, ia as follows: North Island, 389,742 quarters beef, 1,636,783 carcases mutton and lamb. The storage capacity, including the freezing chambers, is 2,879,011 carcases.

South Island, 17,542 qiutrters of beef, and 1,018,278 carcases of mutton and lamb. The storage capacity ia 1,491,' 890 carcases, • ALIEN OR BRITISH? APPEAL COURT'S DECISION. Auckland, May 10. In the Supreme Court the Chief Justice delivered the decision of the Court of Appeal in an application by Jack Kalman to be admitted as a solicitor. Sir Robert Stout said there was no doubt that the applicant was a British subject, but the Government had passed ft war regulation which declared that British subjects who had previously been Germans were hereafter to b? treated as alien enemies and this had happened to applicant's father. The •(ion to be decided was whether it any effect on applicant. The de:i of the judges was that it had i:.;:io. Applicant had become a British subject, not by reason of his father's naturalisation, but because he was born ,n New Zealand. If the Government wished to affect the status of persons in this position it must do so by express legislation or by war regulation. As he was a British subject he was not affected by the war regulation. The court was of opinion that he should D 6 admitted. The Chief Justice, addressing applicant, said the affidavits filed showed him to be of exemplary character, and he wished him every success in his profession.