SARGOOD CUP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 108, 30 January 1908, Page 6

SARGOOD CUP.

Blenheim, January 29. j It.iyas_.jocently itiitfti m the leading paperi that it was certain;-tliiijt: .iljd Southland RifU Corps had. won the Sargood Cup' with some-' thing over. 70 per cent.., of. the possible. ' The Blenheim.Hides made 290 bits out of,; a possible 320, equal to 00.6 per cent. The 'atter is probably tho Winning score. •■' - iiferriiSG MONEY NOT RECOVERABLE ■ B'ahiatua, January . 29.v • At a sitting of ; tho Court before Mr., James, S:M., Herbert Vile" sought to recorer: from James 'Donaldson ;tlie amount,of tlie .dividend paid by Lomaria—less one pound returned— at the recent AshhurSt races, and which'hbrs'# plaintiff instructed defendant'.to.back. Plairi- • tiff was nqiisuited, ..the : Mi(jblraie remarking ; that, notwithstanding that- thq,totalisator .was a, .legalised form of gambling,.! 'no money staked or lost could be recovered in a Coiirfc . .:of 'justice.'' -,' •• MADWiE, CLARA; BUTT. r . GhrlstchurchiJanuary .29. The' Clara season opened to-night -irt His. Majesty's Theatre, 1 the house being the largest, most profitable,' aivl most enthusiastic yet seen- .here- Double encices ..wore given in nearly every number.' Mr. Kemierley Rumford;also. scored a, great success.;. IMPORTED LABOUR 'NOT' AVANTED'.-: 1 dhristchiirch,.January 29., •At a conference held "last repro Sentatives■ of workers in shopand factdrj tailoring; trades, the object. being;, to ; gatHei opinions;Jn regard to the. proposal; .of the Government, to .'import;'labour, feeling was, disfcin'ctly adverse'-to this, proposal. stated ;that a-branch of: ono firm's ,businest, had closed, and the .firm,was unable.,to;al>\ sbrb;,twolvo, tailoresses who were .a v branch .it. .is intended to close.. The opinion; is oxprcsscd* that the presentpressure. would not continue: throughout foe'winter months.-, ' :3 ■It was' also ;pointed out that'for eight months in the year a section of the trade had a great:deal of;: broken time.. It was held that , tho. ordinary increase of population by iinmigration'was quite fast enough', arid' a suilden influsf might 'teiid to' 1 overtax the labour.'market.. .. It wasi f&r better the trade should grow than bo. forccd .in the way; proposed. . The "secretary was instructed ; 'to submit , tho facts brought forward to tb« Minister-for Labour.' '"■<;■ CARDINAL" MORAN. . Auckland, January 29.'. .At a, large "and representative 'meeting- of. Roman Catholics-last evening an influential committee, was/ appointed, to .make arrangements for tho reception 6f Cardinal Moran, on the occasion of-his approaching-.visit for the rc-oponiug of St. -Patrick's Cathedral.:-. ' COTTAGE GUTTED: ' ; Napier, January .29., Fire was discovered aifivo'niinutes to r tw(T o'clock this morning'in' a fOur-roomed'hous* in Norman's Lane, off Carlyle. Street, om;ii<al and occupied by T. Murrow, painter and paporhanger. Tho placo was completely gutted. The cause!of thb'outbreak is unknown, as Murrow and his family had not been-,living in the' houso for tho last few days: The furniture' was insured for £185 in tho United Office. / ', DEATH OF A CAPTAIN. Auckland, January 29. Captahi Ncaring died yesterday at tho ripo ago of 78 years. In rccent years tho • deceased carried oil ;.a largo business as stevedore on Queen Street Wharf, for which his long nautical-experience well qualified him; but his connection with tho port dates back to tho days in the 'sixties when he was ono of the most popular skippers of Henderson and ; M'Farlane s circular saw lino. As master of tllo' barquo Novelty, he made many fast passages between Auckland and Sydney, arid was famous for crowding,oll all the can* vas bis clipper craft could bear with'safety.