NELSON NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1906, Page 6

NELSON NEWS.

[BY TELEGIIATH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON, This Day. Owing to timber-wagons cutting up the roads and insufficiency of funds, the Waimea County Council has determined to pass a bylaw under the Public Works Act, 1905, prohibiting heavy .traffic during the mouths of July, August, and September. The bylaw will be enforced where it is deemed necessary. Goodwin's Traveller's Rest Hotel, Ri■waka, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. Some clothes in front of an open wood fire in the dining-room caught fire, and when the door of the room *was opened it was a mass of flames Owing to the strong galo blowing, tho house, consisting of thirteen rooms, was destroyed in less than an hour, only the outbuildings and stables being saved. Tho insurances are not known.

The Gisborno' caso of William Douglas Lysnar v. James C. Dunlop and another reached its fifth day's argument before the Court of Appeal this morning, when Mr. Hosking replied to the arguments advanced on respondent's behalf by Mr. Skerrett and Dr. Bamford. Judgment was reserved. This morning's quotations' from the Wellington Stock Exchange are as follows, sales being recorded in each instance: — Now Zealand Insurance Company, £3 17s 6d ; South British, £5 10s : Taupiri Coal, £1 ; Leyland and O'Brien Timber Company, £2 3s ; Manning and Co. (Ltd.), £4 7s 6d, £4 8s : Waihi, £8 16s. The Chief Justice will sit in Chambers at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow to . heoT an application in re Tarabochin. v, Howden. At 10.30 a.m. Mr. Justice Cooper will sit in Chambers to hear applications in le Carry v. Gunsen and Corry v, Robertson, two Blenheim cases. An information under the Shops and Offices Act, 1304^ was to-day heard by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M. Tbo defendant was Jonathan Jones, of the Union Dining Rooms, Dixon-street, and he was charged with having failed to give two male assistants a half-holiday. For the defence, Mr. Levi contended (1) that section 3 of the Amending Act, 1905, expressly fixed the hours of refreshment room-keepers at not later than 11.45 on every evening in the week, and impliedly repealed the provisions giving a half-holi-day in the Act of 1904 ; (2) that the provisions of both Acts are expressly made subject to awards of the Arbitration Court and that tho award applicable in this case is inconsistent with a halfholiday being given; (3) that a refreshment room is not a elrop within the meaning of the Act. Mr. Findlay, for the prosecution, argued that the provisions of the Act of 1904 were not intended to bo affected as contended by Mr. Levi: His Worship reserved his decision. Chas. Reid, for having failed to close his shop at 8.35 p.m. on 18th Juno, was fined 10s with 7s coats, in default three days' imprisonment. In tho office of Mr. W. S. La Trobe, director of the Wellington Technical School, may be seen an adjustable desk built to his design. Simply and easily, by means of a couple of ratchets, the top can be raised or lowered. The top may also bo lifted, and used fie a drawing board, which can be slid up or down to suit tho' convenience of tho student. The seat is designed to give a maximum of comfort to the tired evening student, and will fold back when not in use. The whole takes up very 1 little space, so that there is practically no obstacle in the way of sweeping operations. It is proposed to put in about 300 desks of the type described. This number will give evening students a desk each, while day pupils, whose average size is smaller, will have a desk per pair. Mr. La Trobo says that ho prefers the single desk whore possible. If he had larger rooms he would not hesitate to give single desks throughout tho institution. < So China is boycotting New Zealand, and we never guessed (says the Christchurch Truth.) Our amiaWe commissioner in tho East has failed to get any Celestial merchant to exhibit bamboo fixings and lncquer fal lab at G. M. Munros great show because China is so annoyed at New Zealand's £100 poll tax, and the amusing thing is that tho pigtailed Celestial has been so, eloquent about it thpt he has converted the amiable Gow and made him an earnest advocate — wiille he is in China— of the let-'em-all-come policy that nearly ruined California and British Columbia. Fortunately the "say Bo" doesn't lie with J. Graham Gow. The people of New Zealand have a say in it, and the people of New Zealand are quite satisfied if it either means the free introduction of Chinese or no Mongolian court at the Exhibition, to sacrifice tho court witk a glivd, heart and a cheerful countenance. We can do without the Chinaman, educated or uneducated, in this country, bo he tourist, tea dealer, or coolie. Even if it meant the failure of the Exhibition altogether, we would sooner not have him. The To Aro School Cadets, under Captain Darroch, are to form the guard' of honour to tlhe Governor this evening at the Town Hall, where LoTd Plunket is to attend 1 the concert of the Schools' ] Choral Union. Tho members of the Wellington Choral Society arc notified elsewhere that there will be no practico this wcolc. Practice as usual next week. Mcwirs. Benge, Jep6tn, and Boinfordß elsewhere notify the purchase by them of flho wood and cool husine^s of Mr. Thomas Marshall, Adelaide-road. The present, proprietors intend to trade under the title of the Newtown Wood and Coal [ Comp&nj,