NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By TeleEtapli.—Press Association.) - \ POLICE CASES. . Groymouth, January 11 • In'several cases before the Court to«) day under the: vagrant ' clauses of ■ thai Police Act tho informations were dismissed, owing to want of; sufficient evidence showing actual criminality. Beni Rosati- was • committed for trial on a charge of attempted theft from tho per. son. In one case of vagrancy, accused was alleged to have purchased Tongan beans .at the rate of fifty for a shilling,' scented' them with oil. of lavender, and, then sold them for a shilling each, thus' making funds] enough to carry. him:froa one race meeting to another:

■ COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. 'Duneiifi, January lfl.' _ The Commercial Travellers' iesocKk. tion, by a large majority, \decided not ta fall , in with the two' northern. associations' %cbemo for a New Zealand Federation, and reaffirmed that the best way to ■ promote* a" '.would ■- be - for 1 the Auckland .■ and' Wellington Associations; to have a conference with the object of competing the chain of organise tion throughout; Australasia. V

•NELSON DRAINAGE. ■ • Nelson,. January, IS. The City Council has prepared a .state* ment .from the minute records; showing' that thev Health Department inspected the sewerage works.nearly^the 'whole tima . they were in and thai the'oanncir paid over .£309 for such inspection. The council has decided 1 to'engage'tho services of Mi; Hay, C.E., to investigate', and report' on the department's report; and the resident' drainage engineer's is* ply. • ,

. DAIRY SUPPLY PAYMENT. " ■ • ; Gisborne, January lfl. i\jr.!.tho'month of December the KiaOra Dairying Company paid out to sn»-> ■ ■.. < pliers.the record-sum of X 3600 for but-, \ h ter fat. GJSBORNFS RECORD EXPORT. Ghboms, January ID. ;; Far. the first time ip lie history of thin.. district the exports of Poverty Bay, for 1909, have ; iunouiiUxi to over a inillioa sterling. Tho actual ' figures wero ■£1,010,621.... In 1908 the amount' was • ■£865,159, and for . 1907 just under th* million.; During the quarter ending Juno 30, 1909, 27c'wt. of cheese, valued, at £70—.; ■' .the first; exported -for :many 'years—waa. - sent out and, in .the quarter.ending. De-.-.-r cember 31,. the: first export of bailey, ; namely 6220. bushels and valued at £Iw,was made. ; •'

FORGERY. .. . Oamaru, Jannaiy lfi. Stnart ' Walla, a .fanatic .'employee r' of .the-Bank of New Zealand, pleaded grotty to-day to 1 tho. forging- and uttering of a :cheque. for ; £100..;- He. was committed ts the Supremo Court for sentence. ' '. . CHRISTMAS CRACKERS. Chnstchurch, Jannary 8. A few. days before/Christmas Evethfl polios gave warning of.tieirintentkmfcaV '; reduce tho cracker nuisance, but •- tbera ! were, nevertheless, many ofrendera agaiiist the by-law prohihiting f the di£charßpK v\ of fireworks-in the public : streets.. This morning three,-small boys: appeared before Jlr. H. AV. Bishop, S.M., at a sittmgi of tho Juvenile Court, these bemgichargcdj with having, discharged crackers... Theyadmitted that they had dono so, andj ■ the said .that he supposed that; /.;■ .they,were not the 7 only offenders judging! from tlio abominable nuisance thatnad,' ; been created. ■He .was, in fact,' -.- •certain./ from .'what he' had seen himself? that there were many others. Sub-In-, spectpr M'Grath': remarked that'•' • therein were:'6ther. prosecutions, to follow:;.: JfrJ ' Bishop: theii.remarked .that ,tlie'boys wera(, j 'not so culpable as those who suppliodj them with crackers.'There was so mnci* at, snch. a' time .that■ it. was a ;case\of ."joiuing; ii'v.rjaiter than any. . thing; Tmmng to.the boys, he askaj them-.it' - they;:.'would.,promise not ..to .re*','.. rnext :.ltoistmas,.(and, rei.> afErmativelreply, ; he convicte^--:? and:-discharged them. ''