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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12645, 4 November 1905, Page 7

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AUCKLAND, November 3. A lady canvasser was fined £1 by Mr Kettle, Stipendiary Magistrate, for witnessing an enrolment claim without seeing the elector sign the form. The Magistrate originally fixed the penalty at £5, but reduced it when informed by the prosecution that the defendant was in low circumstances.

DUNEDIN, November 3, Captain Ritchie, of the Loch Garve," is to be proceeded against on Tuesday for a breach of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1903, for leaving Wellington without a second mate. It is stated he had shipped a mate who had failed to put in an appearance when the boat was leaving.

AUCKLAND, November 3.. John Churton, an Auckland bookmaker, was fined a total of £70 and costs by Mr Kettle, Stipendiary Magistrate, for keeping an office contrary to the Gaming and Lotteries Act, and ■%iaking a bet depending upon the results of the working of the totalisator. Accused pleaded guilty. The Magistrate, in giving his decision, said that bookmakers were embarked on a business prohibited by law and must take the risk. OHRISTCHURCH, November 3. Yesterday afternoon, W. E. Poba-r, a bookmaker, was fined £15 for trespassing on the Riccarton racecourse on August 17th and 19th. WELLINGTON, November 3.

A writ claiming £1000 damages has been issued by H. F. Fuller, of the Government printing office staff, against G. M. Yerex, who is contesting the Hutt seat, for alleged libel contained in an issue of the " Petone Clironicle," of which Yerex ds owner.

DUNEDIN, November 3. Two seamen on the Loch Carve were each fined 30s and costs for refusing to go to work. Accused pleaded guilty, but their counsel said "the men had refused to go to work ibecau.se of the manner in which they had been treated by. their officers. Albert Henry Lovelock, who had been arrested at Inversargill, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering a ■cheque for £3 10s, and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence.