NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 29

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

AUCKLAND. In the Rotorua Magistrate’s Court Mr Dyer, S.M., sentenced David Adamson, a grocer at Matamata, to a month’s imprisonment without the option of a fine, for slygrog selling. Adamson disposed of 126 bottles of wliisky in 11 weeks. In the Police Court Harry Turnbull, an hotelkeeper, charged with selling liquor to soldiers at Avondale, was sentenced to one month, with hard labour. # HAWKE’S BAY. A recruiting office and soldiers' club room was opened on the 20th by the National Reserve. A procession consisting of bands, members of the reserve, and the Senior’ Cadets paraded the main streets, and recruiting speeches were delivered by the Mayor and by the military authorities, Several wounded soldiers related their experiences. WELLINGTON. The Appeal Court sitting in Wellington on the 19th inst. granted an order absolute striking William George Somerville, of Taumarunui, off the rolls of barristers and solicitors. Marjorie Card-no was acquitted in the Magistrate's Court on the 20th on a charge of assaulting George Clarke so as to cause him Poddy harm. The wound was made by a hatpin. The girl said Clarke tried to kiss her, and she used the pin in selfdefence. The Karon Rock light, work on the erection of which was started two years ago. was lit for the first time on the night of the 20th inst. It is an unwatched acetylene flashlight of 2790 candle-power, 65ft above water, and is visible 14 miles away. It shows a flash for half a second, with three and a-half seconds’ eclipse. WEST COAST. The coal output last week was as follow : —Westport Coal Company, 8910 tons lewt of coal and 63 tons Bcwt of coke; Westport-Stockton Company, 2275 tona 15cwt. CANTERBURY. As the result of a ballot the Lyttelton waterside workers decided by 340 votes to 20 in favour of work on the wharf being confined from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., but to leave the matter in the hands of members individually. As a result, on the 19th inst. work on the Kauri, with coal from Newcastle, and two other vessels ceased at 10 o’clock. The union also decided that the new hours clause he the basis of the new agreement to be drawn up when the present one expires in June.