DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1917, Page 4

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

MAYOR ASKED TO RESIGN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Marfan, Sept. 12. All the councillors of Martoa B6r« ough publish a signed,letter in to-day'« Advocate calling upon the Mayor, Mr. Wilson, to justify his action in twinning from all committees at to tesi&» from the Mayoralty. The position arises through » «oiflicfc between the caretaker Of the Town' Hall and the Mayor on Anniversary Jpajb Th» Mayor, at the last council mseiing, niov« ed a resolution suspending ..the cainfak.er, who is also the lessee, of the hall, which' „ was lost by five votes to two. Tlie then resigned from all committer. ~ A ''SEDITIOUS ADVERTISEMESfI Wolliflgtoft. Yesterday. In the ChHstchufch. police court to*, t day, Prank Hyman, • manager of th» Lyttelton Times Company, Wan flnea zi> for publishing in the Star »n advertise*, ment for the Socialist Party, announcing 1 ' a meeting. The advertisement was held to be seditious, as tending to discourage. recruiting and the prosecution of tjij| war.

A BATCH OF OFFENDERS.

Auckland, last Night,

, Scowmaster Yictor Oliver wag to-day fined the minimum of £2O for employing an unenrolled reservist. * James Mahoney was fined fc2o for aelli ing milk deficient in fats and solid#, and convicted and discharged on a charge of selling milk containing added water. H. J. Aahby, baker, was fined £lO And costs for selling- shortvr,eight bread, the magistrate ordering that the' convistioa should be advertised in th« pragfl. •

Two Dalmatians—Felix Pobriea and Joseph Botica—pleaded not guilty t» charges of attempting to dtfa&t th» course of justice by inducing » girl witness to give false evidence in a Supremo Court case, in which iPaal Botica wa» charged with unlawful carnal Both vere committed for trial.