WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.
[by telegram.— CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. THE PRICE OF MEAT. It is said that the retail trade is about to raise tlio price of meat a penny per pound. Tlio cause for this is stated to be that the great meat slaughtering and exporting firms have raised the price to the smaU butchers, but I lieai that this movement will not be justified by the facts. It is said that cattle can be bought at from 10s to 15s a head cheaper. In Dunedin I hear that the price of meat was increasod a penny per pound by the small butchers in that city. TOTE BETTING. The appearance of a number of police constables and detectives before the Bench to answer charges of conspiring with persons to break the law lias a flavour of humour about it. As in most other cities tlio " tote bettors congregate in specially inconvenient places, 60 that th thoroughfares are obstructed, the police and detectives have no otlio. way of proving the offence, except tendering the odds upon some horse in a raee. _ No authoritative decision lias yet been given on tuo subject, .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11059, 10 May 1899, Page 5
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