NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14000, 4 March 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

At the Woodville Horticultural ; Show )\ \ yesterday J. A. Nicholas won the championship gold medal for : most point* m all classes. The exhibition was a very fine one. M. the Supreme Court yesterday Walter Lionel Symes, ; charged with having stolen " a horse at Horopito, was found not guilty fl*|;/.;j f (says a Wanganui Press Association message). ■ The young man Randolph Day, who was '..' removed to the- Auckland Hospital on Tuesday, as the result of being crushed between ; some belting at: Bycroft's mill, is improving slowly.. Keen interest is being taken in the approaching Licensing « Committee election", j ~ which takes place on March 9, s for the Bay S , of-.lslands/district. . Eight candidates are contesting the election, three of whom are ! . Kawakawa ; residents.' A witness in a case before the Supreme Court at Christchurch was upbraided by Mr. Justice Denniston for not having left the Court when the witnesses were ordered to leave the precincts of the chamber k earlier '" in the day. . "I- didn't know was to be called," the. man explained, "I wasn't 'supoonied.'" ,

According to Gazette schedules; Wednesday has been chosen as the;-holi-day for shops in 38 boroughs, 36 town and road'districts/arid 33 counties in ! the . Dominion; Thursday in;2s boroughs, 25 •' town and road '.districts,, and 16 counties; and Saturday in one borough and three {',//,■;:; town i and > road ■ districts.*/; r ; In many other ! aif; j / cases i local ■ authorities T have'' failed ?to -' fix . * a closing : day, and the Minister has had to make decision. ''."-,