OVERNIGHT TELEGRAMS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 99, 4 January 1927, Page 3

OVERNIGHT TELEGRAMS

bakehouse; destroyed.

Vat frewt A«"ooIatTon. CHRISTCHURCH, January 3.

The bakehouse of H, W. D. Rogers, storekeeper j\t Waiau, was destroyed by fire yesterday, with its contents and stock of flour

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

GISBORNE, January 3.

Tlie members of Beale's cricket team had an unenviable experience while en route to Gisborne. The first incident occurred on the Morere rull when their car, in attempting to pass another, had the luggage torn off and its side considerably damaged. A little further on the car broke down and the party was stranded on the roadside. A relief car also broke down and the party did not reach Gisborne until 11,40 p.m. ' Finally when the original car arrived with the luggage it caught fire outside the hotel, but the outbreak was extinguished with little damage done.

CUSTOMS REVENUE.

WELLINGTON, January 3

The amount collected at Wellington for December, in Customs revenue, was £230,210 16s lid, and in beer duty £SOBB Us Id. For the quarter, the figures were £618,777 0s lld 1 and £14,890 9s 6d respectively, and for the year £21,534 0s lid and £54,397" 10s respectively. In 1925 the totals were, for December, £221,95-5 12s lOd and £6355 3s 8d; for the quarter, £684,300 9s 2d and £15,313 Is; and "'for the year, £2,460,192 0s 6d and £55,368 17s' 3d respectively.

GAMING HOUSES,

AUCKLAND, Jasuary 3,

As a sequel to a police raid on Saturday morning, Henry Clifton Sallary, 37, and Henry Ganders, 27, ere charged at the Police Court with keeping common gaming houses, Sallary in Gladstone Buildings and Gail-*" ders at 'the Elite Tailoring Cb's premises in Custom.!? Street. Lawrence Chapman, 23, was charged with assisting Sallary, and Alfred Martin Mathews and George Pratt, 50, and Harry Young, 27, with being found in a common gaming house. Sallary, Ganders and Chapman, pleaded guilty.

Detective Cummings stated that. Sallary had been carrying on » wholesale businesis in tote odds ana had been convicted on February 6th last. Ganders carried on a big business. Sallary was president of the Bookmakers' Association in the Auckland province and Young was Secretary. Mr. Hunt S.M., fined Sallary and Ganders £75 each, Chapman and Young £25 each, and Mathews and Pratt £2) each, A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.

GISBORNE, January 3. There was a sensational incident during sports meeting on Saturday morning. One motor cyclist competing in the acceleration test against a motor car attemped a speed of fifty miles per hour and was unable to negotiate the bend in the course. In endeavouring to avoid an obstacle ho turned sharpjy and the machine turned completely round and threw the rider clear, reared vertically and somersaulted. The machine was considerably damaged but the rider was uninjured. CHAMPION CYCLIST. WELLINGTON, January 3. R. W. Lamb, the Australian amateur cyclist, arrived by the Makura to-day for a tour of, the Dominion. His first race engagement is a night meeting at Wellington next'Saturday.

NEW YEAR WASH-UP. HOKTLTKA, January 3. The Rimu dredge washed up on New Year's Eve for a return of approximately twelve hundred ounces of gold for 16 days' dredging. WELLINGTON'S WIRELESS. WELLINGTON, January 3. Inquiry here confirms the cahled announcement that Wellington's new broadcasting plant, viewed by Mr Coates in England, is of five kilowatts, this being an aerial powermaking plant ten times as powerful as the now Auckland, and Christchurch stations; also more powerful than the Australian stations. THE CHESS CONGRESS.

AUCKLAND, January 3. At the chess congress great interest is maintained. Play has now reached a critical stage, with the leaders playing against each other in the final section. Round three resulted as follows: Dunlop v. Davies '(Queen pawn game): Played on regular lines the game was even at the adjournment. Farburn v. Severne (Queen's pawn game): Severne has won a bishop for a pawn and just before the adjournament Fairburn resigned. Kelling v. Roberts (Sicilian defenced): Kelling is a piece up. Roberts defended stubbornly but Kelling forced a win. Gyles v. Pleasants (Vienna): Pleasants lost a pawn early in the game. A mixed attack followed and Gyles win. Miller v. Erskine (centre counter): j Miller lost a piece but has some I compensation by way of an attack. '