TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4103, 3 May 1892, Page 3

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[By Teleorapii.—Press Association,] The Bruce Election, Dunedw, May 2, The Minister for Public Works is speaking at Waitahuna to-night, and will possibly speak at Milton tomorrow. Mr Pinkerton, M.H.R., is also addressing the electors at Kaitangata in the interests of Mr LeeSmith, while the candidates ate speak-' ing in other centres of the Bruce electorate, The Evils of Gambling. A Stirring Sermon, Auckland, May 2. In a sermon at the Pitt-street Wesleyan Church denouncing gambling, the Bev J. Berry spoke in strong terms of this evil, and urged the necessity of sound and frequent instruction to the young upon the subject Thn teachers in the public swots should be requested to instruct chmten upon the evils of gambling, and the people ought to demand the t abolition of the (obligator, and to , resolve to vote for no candidate for : Parliament who gambled, He regret- i ted the space and encouragement ' given to the subject by the press, and the way in which the churches nibbled at gambling in connection with bazaars, Mr Berry, in the course of his remarks, asserted that there were more book- ] makers in this city than there were ministers of religion and schoolmasters put together. At Ellerslie Racecourse it was a common sight to see young boys and girls betting with the bookmakers, and ho had a number of tickets issued by licensed bookmaker? to boys in the Costly Home. The ' preacher alio mentioned a case in which three boys, members of one family, the eldest of whom was under 20, had lately won £IOO by betting on , athwtic sports. acgidenWaWWalities. Dunedin, May 2. Mrs Eicbardt, well known as the proprietress of the hotel at Queenstown, died to-day from injuries re> ceived by a fall downstairs, James Adams, of Tokomairiro, a very old settler, has been thrown from his horse, but it is believed that lie is not seriously hart, New Plymouth, May 2, Captain Mace, in proceeding from Middleton's Hotel, Upunake, to Major Ttikes' residence, on Saturday night, jumped over a wrong fence and fell over a cliff 40ft on to the rocks in ~ Opunake Bay. He was Btunned, but on recovering managed to find his way back to the hotel, flo was much cut about tho face, but no bones were broken,