GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 68, 18 September 1894, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

♦ [united press association.l Auckland, 17th Septembor. A firo broko ont in the stables of tho Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, whioh were burned down. Tho damage is estimated at JE2SO The origin of tbo firo is nuknown. Mr. Northcote, S.M., gave a young woman six months' hard labour to-day for obscene language. The Bteamer Upolu, wbioh has left for Sydnoy, is to run between that port, Samoa, and Tonga, the Union Company having determined to inaugurate with hor v, monthly Bervice between these places. The Mararoa, Botomabana, and Tasmania, which leave for Sydney to-night, are crowded with passengers, a large number being from Auokland. In some of the city churches yesterday tho proposal to run a Sunday tram service was condemned. The Trades Connoil also against the proposal. Inveecaegill, 17th September. T. Crowley, licensee of the Gladstone Hotel, was fined £2, with 37s costs, for supplying liquor to a drunken man, and had his license endorsed. The circumstancos of the case were peculiar. The man Bupplied ie extremely violent when in liquor, and uses bad language, and is generally "a terror" to hotelkeepers. He had been in Crowley's house twice previously and created a disturbance. When he came in on the day named and commenced his üßual ontrageous behaviour, Crowley, to get rid of him, as he was abusing the religion of Borne people in the bar, gave him a glass of lemonade with a spoonful of beer in it, and got him away. Crowley admitted supplying the liquor to prevent a breach of the peace. Mr. Kawbon, S.M. , said the Act was imperative. No liquor of any kind must bo supplied to a drunken man, and to accept defendant's excuse would open tho door to a similar plea on future occasions. Feildino. This Dat. James Coleman, formerly of Normanby, was arrested this afternoon charged with firing a revolver at Alfred Haunet, owner of stud horses. Jealousy is the alleged cause. Haunet escaped unhurt.