INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 June 1899, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(by telegraph.— press association). Wellington, Last Night. The Supreme Court did Dot sit this morning. Judge Edwards being ill, it was announced that the Court would not resume till Wednesday. In the absence of an extra Judge, the Napier session has had to be postponed. The hearing of the charges against Myers has been postponed for three weeks. A man, named Williams, was fined £1 and £lO costs today for refusiug to show his railway ticket to a collector. The defence was that the man was not one of the officials specially named in the Act to whom tickets must be shown on demand ; but the S.M. held that a guard could authorise his subordinate to collect tickets. Christchurcet, Last Night. Late last night the police, under SubInspector O'Brien, raided a house in Tuam-streee, occupied by Chinamen, on the suspicion that gambling was largely carried on. They effected an entrance quickly, and found a number of Chinamen and Europeans seated round a table on which " Fan Tan " had evidently been played. They succeeded in arresting 32 Chinamen and four Europeans and secured the " bank," —a bag containing several pounds in small coins,— and the apparatus. Nai>ier, Last Night. Albert Pellam, aged about 35, was drowned in the Tutaekuri River, near Taradale, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased was last seen alive on Thursday.