NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

RECORD TRICE FOR WHEAT. NEARING SIX SHILLINGS. [BY TELEQturiI.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedln, October IS. The wheat market continues to advance* and several thousand sacks of wheat sold to-day at a price equal to ss. Bd., or ss. Dd. delivered in Dunedin, which is the highest prico recorded for many, years. It is stated that any further rise in tho price of flour will necessitate an increase of the, price ofbread to Bd. per 41b. lor.f. Dunedln, October 15. Bakers, complain that thero has been si largo falling-off in tho supply of bread sines the price was raised to.Tjd. missing. ' ■■■■•..•'■;'.; : Thames, October 15. ' Jphh Hudson, omployed at Waikaka, oil! tho Piako lands, is missing. Ho left Morrins-; villo the other day for Waikaka, and subse*.' quently hie horso, with- saddle and bridle was found, It is believed that Houston has been drowned in tho Horohoro Creek, which. was in flood at tho time. Tho police are mailing a search for tho body. Houston is i> stranger in Now Zealand. -He comes from .Australia, and is believed- to bo 'a single .1 ■man.- . Y.M.C.A. \ .. Auckland, October 15.. ; Tho canvass in connebtibli with tht Y.M.C.A. campaign has not been attended with tho success anticipated. To-day Olily £254 was received, bringing the total up to £12,674, including tho £4000 expected to be roalizod in connection , with tbo sale of the old building. In' order , to raiso the sum required Within tho time originally specified, £4325 must bo collected in five daya. —— ' iv rOVERTY BAY MYSTERY-. '•>■'■■■■■- Clsborne, October 15. MotU. residents startled lately by several mysterious robberies, and oil all occasions bush camps or isolated dwellings have been the scene of operations. On Sunday a search party of five set out, and a half hour's'walk from tho township, , brought them on some > unmistakably fresh tracks. Proceeding cautiously, they- soon dropped upon a man, who was completely, taken by surprise. •' ' / I. One'of the party, presenting a rifle, called upon/him to surrender. For a mdmont ho stood motionless, and then, with a bound, mado off into tho denso bush, whence ho was pursued for half a milo, but escaped* •;■ . The party discovered his campUig place, .together with tho proceeds-of the robberios. There is no doubt in tho minds of tho party that the man is Matenga, who is alleged to -have porpetiatod'many Dush robberies in the (Waiapu district, and who has been a fugj' tivo from justice for. several years past.

- A HUSBAND'S EVIDENCE. ■ Chrlstchuroh, October 15. ,' A cnricus point of evidence arose during tho hearing of a forgery ciiso at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday.' A man and a woman woro jointly charged with having forged' the name of.the woman's husband to a promissory- note. The husband, was called to give evidence, but objection was; raised by counsel that, his evidence , was inadmissible without'consent, as the offence Was .against (lie Cr'owh,- and not one as'ttetweeri , husband anil wifo, in ,whioh case it would have been admissible by the Evidence Act^laOD. Tho Magistrate shid that point had not yet received judicial consideration. , Irt ma opinion there had to be an oifence agaiiist.the husband beforo tho Crown could take action. In any, case ' the ovidonco of tho husband would bo admissible against ono of the parties, and ho .therefore ■ admitted it, A WET : . .' Auckland) October I4i' Tho rainfall recorded , in Auckland for thl, last five months has been without a pal'Bllo for forty years, and the fall this month hai already passed ' the ' forty-year averago fot October. ' Up to 9.30 this morning 3.60 niches of rain had been recorded, while the average for the whole of October for tho past four years has been 3.34.inches. Unless the weather'takes up almost immediately and hue conditions prevail mtiUlio end of Decembor, thero is every probability of the yea* being the wettest On record. . "• BANK NOTES FOR A SHILLING. - : , Talhape, October 15. James Arnott, with several aliases, waf'; brought boforo the' Court to-day, charge' with having stolen six pno pouw hotes, thu property of tho Bank of Austra lasia, at Wellington, on October 9. . Accused stated that ho had purchased one of the notes for one shilling- from a man whom he had been drinking with at Weh iington, a*d; who. afterwards gave him ylie-, Other notes. . -■ . . - Accused,was'also charged with liavma ol> ■ tained 18s. from William Harvey, of /Taihapo, by means of a-valueless note, payment hav-. liio- been cancelled. He was remanded utltif October 19. . . . ' ■ ,'• THE GAMBLING EVIL.,: . ; ' ' Auckland, October 15., .'. The Baptist. Conference has passed th« : following resolution:—"This conlcrcuco if- ■ firms its unabated hostility to all forms of. gambling, as inimical to the' moral welfaro of the Dominion, and'determines that. ii frillnever relax its efforts until more stringent laws arc enforced against-this ilisidioUS vico. . It deeply regrets that no provision is to bo ; made in the propostid ninuiulmtiiits to the ' Gaming laws'for tlw abolition of tho liceuso. for I'llie" totalisator, atid bcliuvvs that tho proposal to dorivo a larger rovenue from the ioenso of. tho totalisator frill rondel' its abo* . litioii moro difficult. Furthur, it regrets also that tho Premier -has not unbodied in Ins Bill ■■prohibition of tho publication of divid--ends from the totalisator, which directly fos,ors toto.odds betting. It rejoices in-the . Voniier's proposal to isolate . racecourses from communication by tclopliono and telegraph and to .prohibit struct , ' betting■ .Mid icttina. i)f minors, and trusts that thesu amoiidnifiiits will bo enacted during 'the present session! hud, finally, that clubs will bo brought withih the Bcopo of tho gaining laws?' SHOOTING ACCIDENT.' \ CliflEtohUrolii : October 15. A sltootlhg accident, forttthntoly- iittoridci by no serious results, occurred in the city about midday. Mr* William Knowles, a hairdresser, who has a shop in Lou'or ManChester Street, Was handling-a ruyolvw iil his shop, and when ho pulled tho trigger tho h'onpoii nrod a cartridge \vhich had bußn loft b it. Tho bullet passed through a window aiid entered tho shop next door, striking a yonng man named Frank : Lcslio Berry, a tnnsoh, on the temple. Borry was conveyed , to tho hospital, Where it was found that tho wound was not particularly dangerous. Tho hairdresser stated to tho police that ho had bought his business about thrco months ago, and Was oloiii'iiig oiit a cupboard this morning when ho discovered il revolver. Ho was snapping it round wheal it suddenly went ■olf. . . - '■..,..'' ACCIDENT AT ADDINGTON, Ohristchuroh, October Iβ. A ilian lianicd t William Jonlnns, an on»c ptoyeo ht the Atldiiigton vvorkshorjs, mot,with iin accident whilo wurldng a plaiuns maeliino this morning, losing foar at iij loft ; Aand, . -...