NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 99, 15 April 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

i GOOD FRIDAY TRAMS. Per Press Association. I Wellington, Last Night. 1 Despite the protest of the tramway ) employees, the City Council has decided Itu run a Sunilav service on Good Friday. Last Good Friday 34,000 penny tickets were sold, and the trallic resulted in a slight loss. LICENSING CASES.

. Uuucdin, Last Night. At tliu Police Court to-'day, Leah Myers, keeper of refreshment-rooms in tlie Octii<j;<iii, wits charged with sending a child under thirteen yours of age to a licensed house I'or beer. Defendant admitted sending the boy with a note to I lie holder of a bottle license, ordering »i.N [»int bottle* of stout, but the boy lost (he note and the money. .Mr. Hanlon, lor the defendant, asked for a dismissal, on the ground Uiat a store holding a bultl,. license was not a licensed house within the meaning of the, Act. The .Magistrate, Mr. Widdowson, said the point had not been, raised before, ind decision would be reserved.

George Ralllcy, ciii|-iliiyed by .lohn Peterson, holder of a bottle license, \vadialled with selling liquor to a cnlld under thirteen years of age. Defendant said uo stout on sale was labelled as described by the boy. and he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Decision was reserved.

PRISONERS AS MARKET GARDENERS. Auckland, Last Night At a meeting of the recently formed Auckland Market, Gardeners' Association held this evening, it was decided to forward a petition to the Government requesting that the Prime Minister's proposals that prison labor be used in the production of vegetables on a Stale-owned farm be nol given ell'eet. to, as they were sure that when. Sir Joseph Ward made the suggestion he. was not aware that of the. vegetables sold ill Auckland a large quantity were grown by white labor. It was also resolved to forward a letter to the Inspector of Police, drawing bis attention to the Chinese working in their gardens lon Sundays.

ARRIVAL OF A UU'ISER. Wellington, Last Night. The. third-class cruiser Pegasus arrived this afternoon from Melbourne. It is understood she will remain here lor some weeks. Gun\ practice, took place on the. run across, \Good marksmanship was recorded wkh. the fourinch guns. COAL MINERS' AC'TfOX. Wcstport, Tuesday. The Denuiston Milters' Union has instructed its secretary to take immediate steps to cancel the union's registration i under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Y(U THEUL JU'KGLAKS. Auckland, Tuesday. A band ot live boys of ages ranging from ten to lifteen pleaded guilty at the Police Court today to a round of biirglnj'R's. They had entered lifteen premises and stolen n number of small articles and a quantity of jewellery. Ihe last exploit occurr'cd on Sunday, when they entered a |eweller's shop and stole jewellery valued at .Col). Their total 'depredations amounted to .CI 10. Most of the articles were recovered when the gang was arrested, but a bag of opaU. which the, Iwy to whom they were allotted inrew away as valueless, is missing. Chief Detective Marsack staled that the boys roamed the streets day and night and were quite beyond parental control. All were committed to Burnhiini Industrial School.