MINISTERS' MOVEMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 3

MINISTERS' MOVEMENTS.

Tho Premier will leavo for Ghrisbchurch to-night, and will be present a* the dedication ceremony of- a peaj of bells at the Anglican Church, Addington, to-morrow. .Sir Joseph will ire-lura to Wellington on Tuesday morning, .and will, then go on to Auckland. He .willbe back in Wellington at the- end o£ the w\2ek, and hopes to be present a(> tha Southland Caledonian Society's gatssring at Invercargill on New \ ear's Day. This morning tlio Hon._ Gcorgo Fawlda • left for Auckland, where ho will spend the Christmas holidays. Tho Hon. R. M'Nab intends to remain in Wellington during the holidays. The Hons. J. A. Millar and J. M'Gowan are already in the North, while the Hon. Dr. Findlay is spending v holiday in tho country districts of the North Island.

More than half an hour was occupied this morning in enquiring in the* Magistrate's Court into a simple charge o£ drunkenness preferred against an alien, named Franz Michallek, who could'-snei-ther understand nor speak English. He was Temanded from Thursday" in order that, he might have tho case presented through an interpreter. The proceedings were very long-winded. The magistrate frequently expressed his impatience at the excessive volubility of tho accused, who gesticulated wildly in the middle of a torrent of guttural polysyllables. After two constables .had given evidence of removing tho accused from the Theatre Royal on Wednesday night for creating a disturbance, and the watchhouse-keeper had testified to tho damage done by the prisoner in the cell, where lie had been coEJUied, Mr, Riddell, S.M., entered a eoimction and imposed a fine of ss, or an alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment . oh tlie first charge of drunkennessi audio's, and. 14a costs, on the second charge bf-'idaiuaging Government property. ' In "default ol payment, defendant will have to under. £o sasfin eUyj^ imniisojiniejitii