DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 19 August 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

<‘WO OLBROKEiIS’ ’ AX i) HORSERACING. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 18. William Scott and Henry Llaitindale were charged at Lie Magistral..; s Court to-day with publishing a document which contained a notification as to betting on horse races to be run at. Auckland in June. lleccipts through the post of betting cards bearing the words “ABC” and accompanied by a card bearing the words“ Scott andMartindalo, woolbrokers, Wellington” was pro red. Counsel for defence said the point was who posted the cards. He contended that there was no evidence to connect the defendants with the publication. Judgment was reserved. STUD HAMS. Ashburton, August 18. At a clearing sale of the live stock of the late Mr George Mcßae to-day, two shearling Southdown rains, purchased by Mr Mediae as two-tooths from the late King’s Sandringham Hock, wore purchased by Thos. Dowling, Springfield, at 71 guineas, and two ewes from the same Hock were purchased by G. Gardener, of Mcdburv, for 26 guineas each. INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANTS. Palmerston N., August 18. A Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants was formed to-night. SEEDS SALE AND CONTROL. Dunedin, August 18. The Chamber of Commerce decided to-day to send a telegram to the Minister of Agriculture requesting that progress of the Seeds Sale and Control Bill be delayed for at least two or three weeks so that members of the trade throughout the Dominion might have time to confer regarding its requirements and lay its views before him. Palmerston N., August 18. Mr E. Griffiths has received cabled advice that Danish butter has advanced 8 kroner, and that the market is gaining strength daily. Prices are still advancing, the drought being more disastrous than anticipated. It is very serious, Mr Griffiths says. This advance is equivalent to nine shillings per cvvt.