NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14807, 10 October 1911, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Five men and four women were lodged >i in the police cells last night. - Two of the : 6 women were arrested on charges of being x drunk and disorderly, and the others will have to answer charges of drunkenness. Several members of Sir John Findlay's audience last night declared loudly that thev did not believe what Sir Joseph Ward said. Sir ■ John ' F^djay,; "I ; know M /you don't, but very often "one man's disbelief is another man's"credit.""-' ' """ • • — Numerous • entries - are . being received-at "the "office of this paper in the competition for which Messrs. Macmahon and - ■ Louder offer 'apprize of five guineas for the ibest suggestion for ' a . name; for their con- ; tinuous * picture theatre - now ' in' course of erection .in Queen-street.-. . .*• / v,l.'V;* The two Deisel ' engines'' ordered from ] England by the Gisborne BoroughrCouncil -: iOr their electrical ] powerhouse, *.and also : the? duplicate -i Baxter stonecrusher for the Quarry, are on board the steamer Ayrshire, j which" is due to arrive at 'Auckland *.n \ ' November 5. - ■ -*» '/g*g> J*-} There were 241 prisoners' in the Auckland Gaol at-the end' of last week. ,% Of /- , these 223 were serving Various terms, imprisonment with hard labour,} six were on remand, a similar* number were awaiting; tf ialf *and three :werd.; life prisoners, j Dur- : ing the week 28 were received and 38 dis- ; charged. ■ .■.-.-■■'.■-_-.■■ -. : " "As the outcome of. a recent visit of;the police to the shop ,> of a.Waihi' chemist it 13 understood that information charging the person suspected with keeping liquor for sale will be laid, f and that the case will be heard at the. next sitting Jof. the Magistrate's Court on the" 18th infit.. The action (telegraphs our own correspondent) -will be tbCfirlt of its kind in the' Dominion. 4 " Li -answer -to telegrams from the chairman of the County Council, the. Northern Wairoa Dairy Company,, and ■.% the Kaihu ;fei.wniplers, our Dargaville correspondent : states ihat ; the Minister for Railways .' has ■:".'"•: replied that in view' of the. summer traffic - and the dairyihgSlnduatry trains on the «.. ■' ISihtfg section will'" not be reduced, but ; ; continue "daily as at present. Mr. H. Scott Bennett, of Auckland, who is visiting the various. industrial centres on behalf of the New'^Zealand Federation of : Labour, addressed. kt^thejing;' of water- , side -workers at Lytteltph yesterday morn j ing (says a Press Association message)."He i urged the the question; of the advisability of consolidating the forces of Labour under, one head, which" would bring about uniformity.-, • - , . ...

Asked list evening' whether he was in -' favour of nationalising -': the J doctor, :; Sir John 3?ihdla¥J said "that ; the doctor -would probably have something to "say about that, j*and he did not think it would be wise for him to eay ■ he 5 would take the medical ■■ profession under ft |be Public Works*, Act. - A number of medical men at|Home had "."■ shown themselves Tery anxious to separate commercialism entirely from their profes- ■ sion if; the State could see its way. to use j their services in return for some reasonable ' recompense. /