INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) \ AUCKLAND this day. To-day's. sba.remar,ket 'sale : Waihi,. 44a 3d. ' ; WANGAXUI, this day. The Supreme Court is to-day hearing a libel action, Paterson and Smythe claiming £1000, damages for alleged libel, contained m an unsigned letter, allegedly written by Mrs Smythe, concerning the alleged conducti of Mrs Paterson andr a Collegiate., sehoo^ Jboy. The case is proceedings . . V At the Magistrate's .Ooiivtj V C H. Grant, assistant at, , a local chemist's Shop, was fined £1 and cost© on each of two charges, of breaches of the Opium Act. Xhe' breaches were unintentional. They .ire the first canes of; the kind, lw^fd m Wanganui. ■■' . , WELLINGTON,, this day. ..•' At a if ull meeting of delegates- of the Reform League on Saturday, Mr R. P. Bollard, the sitting member, was unanimously chosen as the Reform candidate for Raglan at next election, , A Chinese, Ah Young, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for 'keeping a c 1 i:iiou gaming house. He had been previi/.i> ly convicted of keeping a brothel, also of vagrancy.. ; The butter ill cool store m. various ports on June Ist was as follows: Auckland, 34,018 boxek; New Plymouth, 11,370; Patea, 1672; Wanganui, 2429; Wellington, 32,282; Lyttelton, 4124 j Dunedin 4000 ; total, 89,895. The quantity at this date last year was 66,390 boxes, and on June Ist, 1912, it was 64,403. / At a meeting of the Licensing Committee, the chairman emphasised that licensees should do their utmost to -prevent bookmakers using their premises for the purposes of <f«Tn>blii)g. Jn.one case a licensee had reduced the accommodation for boarders below the limit set by the 'statute. The Bench gave a , -.w'.arning that licenses m such cases might be iorfeited. < , < DUNEDIN, tfhis d.iy A six-roomed house m Quoenstown was completely glutted by fire on Saturday night. It was owned by Thomas Farra and occupied by Steven Wharton. The insurances were £300 on tihe hou»e( m which office is not ajscertainable), and £200 on the furniture m the South British office. Advice from Pembroke states that Mr P. R. Sargood's fine homestead on the shores of Lake Wanaka were completely destroyed by fire early this mqrning. Only" a few. pieces of furniture were saved. ■""■•■■ '■■: A meeting of unemployed general laborers was called for this morning, but the response did not, it was claimed, indicate the true position of the unemployed m Dunedin. Nineteen married men, with 85 dependents, and 23 single men, with six dependents,' answered the rojl-call. All are able-bodied men, who stated they were anxious for work. It was resolved that a special meeting of the union be held to-night, and probably steps will be taken to place the position before , Mi- Massey . (SpecVl to Herald.) * DDNEDIN, this day. The Prime Minister's reference to electoral reform on Friday night is interpreted as meaning ' that he will submit a new, Bill tq the caucus of the Government party on the opening of the session. Should such be the case, the prospects of triple, electorates and. proportional representation "will be determined before the measure' is introduced. Owing to the straitened position financially of the Otago Cricket Association, the sports editor of the Star is inviting a shilling . subscription m aid of the J. W. Crawford coach fund.