LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11109, 25 October 1907, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, List night. Norman Keir, who was until a. week ago m partnership with Mr Thomas Poynter m a general carrying business here, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver m the Dqmain today. In a letter to his landlady he stated tliat business worries had necessitated his taking an extreme ccua'se, and he also mentioned where his body would be found. Deceased leaves a wife and child. WELLINGTON", last night. Government^ offices throughout the Dominion -will be closed on Monday, November 11th, m celebration of the King's Birthday. The Gazette contains regulations for the -netting and sale of sea trout. The season opens on November Ist, and closes on the last day m February. CHRJSTCHURCH, last night. The visit of Her Excellency Lady Plunket, honorary colonel of the Second North Canterbury Mounted Regiment to the regiment's headquarters at Culverden, is likely to result m much general good to the mounted volunteers by increasing the interest m them. That Lady Plunket is no -ornamental officer is shown, by the keen interest she takes m the general work of the force. She has presented! a handsome shield for _ competition among the mounted volunteers of the Dominion, and has asked that the first competition be held, on a Canterbury ground. The conditions ■will be framed by Colonel. Davies, and the competition is suggested to take place about March or April. TIMARU, last night. At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Leonard Burke, a youth of 19, a native of Christchuirch, pleaded guilty to charges of (1) breaking into and stealing from Washdyke railway station £52 odd m money,' a number of tickets, and a bicycle ; (2) placing an obstruction on the railway, viz, a rail across the track at one spot and a big stone at another. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The bicycle he left m Timaru, some of the tickets he put into the date stamp, dating only one end, however and on one of them he travelled to Dunedin and back. He kept another m his boot. and threw the rest" away. He was caught by the guard of the express through using the stolen ticket. Though he pleaded guilty he intimated that he had! nothing to do -with the obstructions on the line. INVERCARGILL, last night. A case undjer the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act was decided by the Magistrate to-day. A boy under 16 was charged with smoking a cigarette- on the stair leading to the dress circle of the theatre. The magistrate held that this was not a public place within the menning of the Police Offences Act, and dismissed the case. If the Smoking Prevention Act was to bo effective, he said, it should be made to apply to anybody found smoking no matter where. In the meantime the Act must remain to a large extent a dead letter.