IN OTHER CENTRES

Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 12

IN OTHER CENTRES

“ A NIGHT CLUB.” The manager of a city cabaret, which was described by the police as a kind of night club, was fined £4O to-day for permitting liquor to be drunk on the premises. Plain-clothes constables said that liquor was freely consumed, and one girl danced on a table. The manager, Darcy Woods, said he had been warned, and had done his utmost to stop drinking, but patrons brought bottles with them. The Magistrate said the law was definite. Whether drinking could be stopped, except by removing the cubicles, he did not know.— Auckland Press Association telegram. PRISONERS SENTENCED. At Napier, Bertie Starkey, for carnal knowledge of a young girl, got a sentence of five years’ with hard labour and two years’ reformative detention, at the hands of Mr Justice Ostler. Owen. Marvell, for a false declaration in regard to car insurance, was admitted to two years’ probation and ordered to pay costs. —Press Association. MR HOLLAND AND INTEREST REDUCTION. [P«* Uwitid Pints* Associatiom.] WELLINGTON, November 6. Mr 11. E Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, replying to Mr Bucbolz regarding reduction in interest rates, says his statement on the attitude of tho Stock Exchanges was in no way incorrect. He had specifically referred to the objections to interest reductions expressed by the Wellington and Auckland Exchanges. THIRD TRIAL. Mr Justice Adams at Christchurch to-day agreed to the Crown’s application for a third new trial for AVashington Irving Carney, a wool buyer, on a charge of bringing about his bankruptcy by unjustifiably extravagant living. This trial will bo commenced in February, 1932, at Christchurch. In the meantime Carney was allowed bail in £2OO. —Press Association.