LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 8

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) < AUCKLAND, this day. The Exhibition band contest began this morning. Results : Baritone solo, , aria and(recitative from "Alexis, '* Green- ' ing (Wahganui Garrison), 93 points, 1; L. Jensen (Wanganui Garrison), 92, and W. Nelson (St. Kilda Municipal), 92, equal, 2. ' The police have arrested a man named Joseph Williams* on a charge of break- ■ ing and entering the residence of J. T. Tukes, Remuera, and stealing therefrom goods to the value of £60. At noon Dr. Mac Donald, chairman of , the British Medical Association, spoke ' on tho British Insurance Act. He explained that it was compulsory and contributory, and affected all manual workers. There were also voluntary contributions up to £160 a' year m some caseß. Tho fact that the Act was compulsory caused dissatisfaction, more particularly to domestics and farm workers. ; The public opening takes place tonight, when Dr. C. Purchase, of Auckland, delivers tho presidential address. Other speakers will be the Governor, Premier, and Minister of Health. The < real business commences to-morrow, : when eleven sectional committees will Sit. To-day's Sharemarket sales : — Ross 6s 6d to 6s 4d, Waihi 51s 9d to 525, Talisman 43a 4d, Auckland Gas Company lis CHRISTCHURCH,- this day. j The Racing Conference judges upheld the appeal of A. Manley, trainer of .Oxenhope, against the decision of the . Dunedin district committee, endorsing disqualification by. the Dunedin Club for ' pulling Oxenhope. The appeal of E. Aniyes, owner of the horse, was *o% journed for further evidenoe. The criminal sessions of .the Supreme Court opened before Mr Justice Deii'iiston. Mr Hostler I'epresented the Crown m place of Mr Stringer, recently pro- ' moted to tlie bench. Addressing the grand jury, the judge said that the list was the heaviest m his experience. There were forty-four charges against twenty-three persons, but they were not so serious on ' examination. Thirty, charges were connected with the Customs frauds cases. There were .three sexual cases. In each it was a case for the petty jury. Tho following persons were sentenced: Charles Larsen, burg- . lary at Grey mouth, four months' imprisonment ; Norman Findlay, five charges, of forgery at Greymouth, 18 months 5 Alfred Howard, four- charges, of theft at Greymouth, probation ; Frederick Py* son, theft, four months; Matilda Sheeter, theft, sent to Salvation Army Home for 12 months ; Stephen Golding, for a series of thefts, was declared an habitlinl nffnnrlnt'