VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

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(at mpocuimw:) EPIDEMIC IX SUVA. AUCKLAND, April 11.—A cable im-/ iiounces^^ : -SuvjV, f Jdpidoiule; flttf dysentry is raging. Eighty 1 eases are in' -the hospital. and forty in, private, homes. Forty prisoners -have been •; uf- . ifiHS i iMi | m SII REFUSED TO SWEAR ALLEQIA&CK TIMARU 1 , April 11Throb youths who had, failed to take the oatlr under the Defence. Act - after/ai, week’ a oppoi v tupity had been given,s wore fined 40g./, each to-day. None' of /them. at the Court this time. J / ’ . > ‘ . . -v v v ■V ■ ~ ALLEG ED/FRAUD. r BLENHEIM, This Day—; £dmund : ; John Walsh (grocer),, audMohn .Vepncin : Binlev (telegraphist), appeared/ At the ; Magistrate’s Court to-day charge^;iyith , conspiring ..by/ deceitto, defraud : •Rbfis/ and Bradshaw and Scott and Maartiiif dale, Wellington, of the ;sums of - £34/ and £SO 10son.certainbetting? drifts 1 - actions. Tt/is alleged /that' ranged that Walsh'go- to the/WiihgUiiui. races leaving signed firm’s mentioned coiitaihing nahihs 1 ol' the horses likely to win, at Wangioiui/ the telegrams to. be hkhdid/m/fe the''time of the race- WAish? tMegf tile- winners to an raddvestj; in Blerthemt/ Bihtey watched the and Mid back telegrams to thei'firyrti. Me erased 'tijd horses haineS and tuted the M.; came suspicious// and/, made inquiries, and a-, prosecutipi? Ellison jhe. police. ', .■/'/ ■' • ir AUCKLAND’S Vil-C.A. ( ;; AUCKLAND/ April- tpufM dation stone /of .the new 3LM.C.A., building to cost £18,000., was laid by His Excellency ..the . Governor .(Ijdrd Islington) 'to-day, in tM v preßencA large-crowd././ , // ; .. v ..' /'//:,'/■■ labor demands. , r: *, WELLINGTON;/This ; Day.— ,Tl}e Trades and Councils Conference resolved ,to urge the Government ’to IhAytey all school ,Moks\prinf^ r hy Mid, and issued fpee'. of charge j; t hat Government'be urged to erect/ houses in ■ each centre Avith a view vt«> bringing dowh\*/e3torMonate::/ also to immediately establish f»mpfetitiye State l services ;AB-d a view to reducmg tne cost oi 'living.