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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 92, 15 October 1913, Page 8

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CRICKET NEW ZEALAND TEAM THE SELECTED PLAYERS. (BY TELEGKAPK — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Tho Selection Committee which met. in Wellington last evening has selected the following players for the New Zealand team to visit Australia: — ' L. G. Hemus, N. C. Sneddon, L. G. Taylor, and H. Tattersall, Auckland. C. Robinson and D. C. Collins, Wellington. D. Reese, W. R. Patrick, R. G. Hickmott, D. Sandman, C. Boxshall, and J. H. Bennett, Canterbury! B. J. Tuckwell, Otago. The team will leave Wellington for Sydney on sth December. SMALLPOX FOUR MORE CASES IN SYDNEY (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) SYDNEY, 14th October. Four cases of smallpox were reported to-day. REDUCE THE HANDICAP NO-LICENSE LEAGUE RESOLUTIONS. (BT TELEGRAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION.) HAWERA, This Day. Tho Hawera No-license League last night passed resolutions urging upon Parliament the passing before next election of legislation removing or at least reducing the three-fifths handicap on the temperance vote; and urging all sympathisers to pledge themselves regardless of political party at the forthcoming election not to vote for any candidate who will not undertake if elected to do his utmost to remove, or at least substantially reduce, the unfair handicap on both issues — no-license and national prohibition. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES "» MAN CUTS HIS THROAT. (BT TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 14th, October. The police have received information to the effect that James Moore, an employee at the Lake Coleridge works, cut his throat with a razor this afternoon, death resulting. AUSTRIAN'S SUICIDE. HASTINGS, This Day. Carl Ritz, a native of Austria, who took poison on Monday, diedTast night. He left a, letter addressed to his employer, in which he stated that his life had been one long mental trouble. Ritz was in comfortable circumstances, and is said to be well connected. MAGISTRATE'S COURT Mr. W. G. Riddell presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Esther Collier, a middle-aged woman, was fined £3, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for using obscene language in the presence of a, crowd of women and children in Fred-erick-Btraot. Mary Joyce, who stated that she had only come out of gaol on Monday, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for indecency. Alfred George Tattlo, a strongly-built man of about 35 years of _ age, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for being an idle and disorderly person. The police stated that he had not done any work for the past couple of months. The accused, wno was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness, stated that he had brought a cheque from tho King Country three months ago, and had done some work on the wharf since he had been here. Harry John Joseph Lysaght, who was charged^ with having- been drunk while a prohibition order was out against him, was fined 20s, and costs. Rosie Wi Kateno proceeded against her husband, William Wi Kateno, a young man 25 to 30 years of age, for having failed to maintain her and one child, and applied for a. separation order and tho custody of tho child. Defendant stated that he had constant work in Greytown at 25s a. week and found. Ho drew £12 a year from property held by the Public Trustee. He drew two or throe sums of money lately, and had £2 in hand, after paying his train fa-re. He was ordered to pay 12« 6d towards the maintenance of his wife and 5s towards the maintenance of tho child, and £2 2s solicitor's fee. At a sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court to-day, presided over by Mr. James M'Kerrow, J.P., Norman Campbell, a frequent offender, was for drunkenness sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Florence M'Anally, charged similarly, was convicted and fined 40e, the, alternative being fixed at fourteen days' detention. I PETONE CASES. ' At_ the monthly sitting of the Petone Magistrate's Court, held this morning, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., presided. Mr. R. Mothes, J.P., was also on the Bench. Kate Burns, alias Bird, alias O'Connel Burgess, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Patrick J. M'Cormaok, who failed to put in an appearance, was charged with committing a breach of the Masters and Apprentices Act by absenting himself from the Petone workshops without leave. After hearing evidence in support of tho ohargo, his Worship decided that M'Cormaok be dismissed from the seryico of the Government, and that his indentures be cancelled. A plea of not guilty was entered , by J. Farquharson to a charge of attempting to evade i payment of Ins railway fare while travelling between Lower Hutt and Wellington. After hearing evidence the Magistrate gave Farquharson tho benefit of the doubt on tho grounds that the evidence was of a conflicting character, and dismissed the case. Tho following were dealt with for failing to attend drill:— J. G. Wilhelm, convicted and ordered to pay 9s Court costs; E. N. Battersby and Arthur Edward Hainsworth, each fined 10s, with Court costs 9s, the alternative being fixed at 48 hours' military detention. Victor Hawthorne, who had failed to attend any parades for tho last two years, was fined £5, with Court costs 9s. In dofault he was ordered to servo fourteen days in the Alexandra Barracks. I

The twenty-third edition of Stone's Wellington, Hawkes Bay, and Taranaki Directory, compiled for the twelve months September, 1913 to 1914, has just been issued. The present edition contains a street map of Wellington and suburbs and an official map of New Zealand corrected up to date. There is a large amount of commercial, statistical, and general information, and the Customs Tariff, with supplement of recent decisions, has been revised up to Ist September, 1913. Many useful references ate given in the alphabetical division of the work; where names are differently spelt, though similarly pronounced, the investigator is referred in nearly a thousand places to the other ' spoiling : this will be of great advantage to busy men hunting for addresses of clients. The Directory has been added to in various ways, is clearly printed, and of handy, eke fo» reference ' ,