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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 6

■Owing to a mistake, the nomination paper of a candidate for the Waitcmata County Council, posted at Waitakere on April 20, was not delivered before tho closing time of the nominations on tho following Friday and, in consequence, the returning officer has excluded the would-be candidate from nomination.

Complete satisfaction with the terms of the project arranged by Mr. W. D. Lysnar during his visit to Loudon for completion by private enterprise of t.hc Gisborne railway is expressed by Mr. John Jackson, Mayor of Gisborne, and chairman of tho district railway committee, who has had the opportunity of inspecting the memorandum submitted to tho New Zealand Government.

In the Police Court at Dunedin yesterday morning tho Magistrate (Mr. H. W. Bundle) confirmed his decision of last week in convicting Vivian Simeon Jacobs, a tobacconist, on a charge arising from tho salo of a ticket in Tattersall’s sweepstake. Cases against six others were adjourned till May 13 to allow of consideration of tho question of appeal, security for which was fixed at £lO 10/-, plus a fine of £7 10/-.

Ait appeal by Maurice Vivyan Richard Sterling Maxwell from a conviction in the Magistrate’s Court upon a charge of frequenting a street in Nelson for the purpose of betting, which appeal was heard by Mr. Justice Kennedy at tho last sitting of the Supreme Court at Nelson, was upheld by the Judge, whoso judgment was received in Nelson yesterday. The Judge said the case came within the general rule that tho general reputation prevailing in tho community and the opinions, inferences, and beliefs of individuals aro inadmissible in proof of material facts.

Following a disturbance in his billiard room, Joseph Hall, aged 41, called in a police constable, but from the story revealed in Court at Wellington yesterday ho lost his head during a scuffle with a man When accompanying the constable to the street, and when the constable pulled the man away he attacked him, with the result that Hall himself was in the dock. The charge was one of asaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, and he was also charged with using obscene language. He denied both Charges, but the Magistrate said that the evidence of accused himself showed that he had lost his head. He had probably been unreasonably treated by some men in the saloon, but that was no reason for endeavouring to batter a man who was trying to assist him. The story told showed that tho affair was all tho outcome of the behaviour of several men under the influence of liquor.

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