AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 29

AUCKLAND.

E. A. Greenside. licensee of the Mohaka Hotel, has been fined £10 and costs for supplying- a Maori woman with intoxicating liquor. J. S. Cooper, licensee of the Hot Springs Hotel, Morere, charged with supplying « cask of beer to a Native, was acquitted on the grounds that the beer was supplied to a halfcaste. William Richmond was --fined 20s for* driving ' a motor car at an excessive rate of speed through the Wairoa streets. In connection with the tramways strilte, the company is to be cited before the Arbitration Court for discharging the men without a week's notice. Two men are to be cited as test cases for leaving the works without notice. The company is compelled to give a week's notice of discharge unless for "good and sufficient reason." The question for argument is whether the reason was sufficient, the men being discharged for j refusing to teach learners. The men declare that teaching learners- is no part of their duty. The Nautical Court found that the wreck of the steamer Awarua was not due to unskilful or negligent navigation on the part of the captain or of the seaman who was at the wheel. The attention of the Minister of Marine will be drawn to the fact that the master had, in accordance with the terms of his employment, surrendered the command when the veseel struck to the seaman who was at the wheel on the bridge, the latter steering the vessel to an anchorage. The Hon. R. M'Nab, Minister of Lands, who arrived in Auckland on Sunday, received deputations on local matters on Monday, and in the evening he was the guest of the Onehunga Branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation, to which he presented a cfaarter. Mr M'Nab subsequently lef+ for Whangarei, on his North Auckland tour.