NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 646, 25 October 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph-Press Association.) THE COMMERCE DELEGATES, , , . . , Auckland, October: 23. •A numter of the delegates to the recent Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire in Sydney,'arrived in Auckland lost night by the oxprcss 'from Rotorna, being met at thq Auckland railway, station by the president (Mr B. Kent) and council-of the Auckland Chamber. This • afternoon they "were taken' for a motor ride'to One Tree Hill, and' thence to tho •residence of ' the "Hon.' <E. Mitchelson, at Ecmucra, where, they were' entertained at afternoon tea; To-morrow morning the Kestrel'mil leave the: Ferry Company's wharf at 9.30 a.m. ; with the delegates on a harbour trip, calling at 1 the sugar works and the: Calliope Dock. 1 Sir Albert' Spicer, president • of' the congress, will arrive in Auckland from Kotorna 'on Monday night. Arrangements are being made by the chamber .for his entertainment. . ■ , ABOUT A WARRANT. . ' . Napier, October 24. A man arrested in Napier under a warrant issued at Greymouth was charged at the Magis-'. trate's Court on f Saturday" ; with having at Greymouth been gn.ilty of persistent cruclty to . his wife,, who applied for an order under tho Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act'granting her, separation... Mr. M'Carthy,. S.M., pointed out that,no warrant for arrest could issue'under the; Divorce and\ Matrimonial Causes Act: Detective Hill said the warrant had scorned to him the most extraordinary one he had ever seen,'but it had been his 1 duty .to execute it. Defendant had made no attempt'to'evade ar- • rest, and in.fact hitdigone .voluntarily to the police station about • the- matter. Defendant was discharged. ' ■ CYCLING. Dunedln, October 24. • The Otago Centre league of New Zealand Wheelmen held a race yesterday from Mosgiel to Milton arid-bach to decide-who should represent Otago in the Timaju-Christchurch race next. Saturday. The roads were very heavy; and the competitors-had a gale of wind against , on .the-outward journey., Seventeen competitors out of twenty started, and the- race was won by .Maw, ■ who also put up the .fast- ; est time,-2 hours 57 minutes. In-addition to ■ -Maw,-the following from Otago will compete in the race.—Withey, Carnegie, and Donie- , .COMMITTED FOR-TRIAL. " Gisborne, October, 23. At the Police Court, Burgess-was committed for trial on a charge of failing to 1 keep proper books. TWO MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT.■ ■Masterton, October 23. . At the S.M. Court this morning, -Henry Edlestone; alias' Joseph Wilson, alias Arthur Yates, : alias D. Smith, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour for the theft of a hide of the value of 355. He had,been previously oonvicted—in ,1907—for stealing. sheenskins' and sentenced to five years; in 1895, breaking and-entering, sentence five -years'; in. 1890, . for larceny, two years; and in 1888,. also, for larceny. ■