AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 514, 16 November 1899, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION) Aucki.A'D, Last Night. At the Policy Court Ro!.e>t MeiVuster was ii it-d 50s and costs £3 4s Cd lor using Vulcan Lane for the purpose ol betting. John Bernard Kilian was ii e i 40j and costs for committing a breach of the Electoral Ace ly signing hi.s name as witness to a s'giiaure on ;in electoral form without i aving se< n such s-ignautro written or h ur.l itdicarjd. Two similar charges against Ro'jt. Jakes ulovtr and five charges of figum.; fictitious oaivir-a on a u electoral form ail pre'erred against Glover were adjourred ii 1 Saturday. In Banco Mr Justice Connolly delivered judgment in Ihe appeal c.is.i Henry McVeigh, appellant, v. Kccle?, police cons'able, respondent, being an appeal against a conviction by' Mr I- S.M., under the Licensing Act, 1851, section 140, for si.lling 1 cjuor io a person already in a s>tate of intoxicate n. At a previous sitting the ease wis argued. His Honor disnvsscd the appeal with costs £lO 10s. Under the Law Practitioners Act, and re Chas. Edward Madden, solicitor, Mr Campbell appealed in suppoit of a motion to make absolute a rule nisi to ftrike Madden off the .Supreme Court id'. His Honor faid he would refer the matter to the Court of Appeal.