DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

BOOKMAKERS FINED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch,Dec. 3. Louis Curtis and William Pollock, both of Duuedin, were charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with making bets on licensed premises, and for distributing cards without the name and address of the printer attached. The facts were admitted. ■ The magistrate, Mr. McCarthy, imposed fines on Curtis totalling £206, and on Pollock £216. Mr. McCarthy said that bookmakers, notwithstanding the gradual increase in linos, had gone on defying the law, treating the fines as mere licenses. It was the court's duty to sec that the law was not defied with impunity, and to ascertain who was the strongest factor in the Dominion, Parliament or the bookmakers. He had inflicted the maximum penalty, and issued a warning that in future cases imprisonment would follow conviction. DISTURBANCE' AT GREYMOOTH. Grcymouth, Dec. 3. The hearing of charges against alleged participants in the disturbance at Wesle'y Hal on October 20, during the visit of the Rev. Howard Elliott, was dismissed, while two culprits were fined £2- and costs, one was fined £O, and two were committed for trial on a charge of damage having been, caused to the hall. REV. HOWARD ELLIOTT. Ashbuvton. Dec. 3. The Rev. Howard Elliott addressed a meeting here last night. He stated that Sir James Allen and Archbishop O'Shea had denied the truth of the rumor to which he had referred at Duuedin. that Archbishop O'Shea had threatened to call out Roman Catholics in the Civil Service on strike, if the priests and' Marists were not exempted from military service at tiie front. The Rev. Howard Elliott did not accept the denial and challenged Sir J. Allen to make public, the correspondence which had passed between the Roman Catholics and the Government on the subject of the exemption of priests and Marists, together with the instructions which were passed on to the Military Service Boards with reference to this matter. Mr. Elliott said he believed that the publication of the facts would prove an unpleasant surprise to the people of the Dominion.