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Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 16

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MELBOURNE CUP,

MELBOURNE. October 21. Scratchiugs for the Melbourne Cup arc International and Elanago. H. Mornomuut will ride Queen of Song in the Cup. The meeting between Ajax and Royal Chief in the Cox Plate to-morrow is exciting groat interest. Roth parties are confident, though Fred. Jones would prefer a soft track for Royal Chief. NEW ZEALAND’S FINANCIAL METHODS. LONDON, October 20. The ‘Daily Mail’s’ City editor, commenting on tlie fall of the New Zealand pound, says that, despite Mr Savage’s reiterated assurances that capital is safe, it is becoming increasingly plain that the country cannot escape paying sooner or later for the extravagance of its recent Socialistic legislation. MONKS IMPRISONED. LONDON, October ‘ 20.—The 1 Daily Telegraph’s ’ Vienna correspondent says that 16 Franciscan monks have been imprisoned at Salzburg on charges of disobeying an order to vacate the monastery, and of flinging out furniture and telling sympathisers that the Gestapo was responsible, PRISONERS SENTENCED. In the Supreme Court this afternoon, Mr Justice Kennedy sentenced prisoners as follows :■ — Harold Robertson Black (24), arson at Ranfurly, three years’ reformative detention; John Alexander O’Donnell (25), false pretences, four months’ hard labour; Walter Hewlett (22). breaking, entering, and theft at Waikaka, nine months' reformative detention; George William Thomas (28), carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years, nine mouths’ reformative detention; Victor Griffin (18), false pretences, two years’ reformative detention. Sentence on James John Green for carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 was held over until later thir afternoon. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon: 3J per cent. Stock, 1939-43, £9B 10s; Union Steam Ship (pref.), £1 6s. POLITICAL MEETING DISTURBANCE. The outcome of a disturbance at Mr W. A. Bodkin’s political meeting at the Town Hall, the defended case against James Pullar, of disorderly conduct, was completed this afternoon in the Police Court. Pullar was fined £2.