DOMINION DOINGS

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 4

DOMINION DOINGS

[Per United Press Association.] GISBOKNE, June 8. Offertories taken yesterdav at Holy Trinity Church on behalf of the building fund debt extinction realised £l,lOO. This amount carried with it contingent .arts of £4OO and £IOO, making tho total for the day £1,600. A boarding house, owned and occupied by Mrs Alice Adams, was destroyed by fire, the boarders having a narrow escape. One. man who had burst through, the window was badly singed and cut about.

• ' NAPIER, June 8. Ai the result of a raid on Chinese premises in Market street on Saturday, See Lee was to-day fined £4O and costs for possessing opium in a form suitable for smoking.

CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. An echo of the strike was heard in the court to-day. The ' Canterbury Drivers' Union sued E. Wolfe and A. Could, who joined the now union, for 5s each subscriptions to the union. The rules provide that members on leaving must give threemonths' notice, and must pay contributions up U> the expiration of the notice. For tho defence, it was contended that the rules did not provide for resignation, and that the men had a right to leave, as the act of the union in striking brought members under a legal penalty. The Magistrate said there was an obvious defect in the Act, as no power wag given the men to resign. He gave judgment in equity and good conscience for defendants. The union will appeal.