New Zealand Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11697, 12 December 1899, Page 3

New Zealand Telegrams.

I PSR PRESS ABSOCIATIOX. j

LICENSING APPEAL CASE.

Wf llixgton, December 11

la dismissing an appeal ia a case in which the S.M. at Mnsterton conviotad and fiaed tho licensee of the Club Hotel there for sell'ng liquor on Sunday night to persons who were nos bona fide travellers, though they hid assured the barman that they were, Sir R. Stout said were Ke to hold that merely asking a person demanding drink whether he wai * traveller aud rec^iviug an nfli mative r9ply were sufficient, h9 would ba laying down a rule thih might make the provisions of seclion,ls7of tha Act nugatory. MR O'REGAN ON I3J^ DEFEAT. Reo'TOX, De«3tnber 12.

Mr P. J. O'ltegan received a great ovation on his arrival here from Westport. Addressirjg the crowd he said his defeat was dus chiefly to tho fact that the pre judicas of the ignorant section of tho e'ectors were stirred up about the Transvaa', and paid cmi b tries wero secretly sent auiona the electors with ex'ricts from tha speeches of liish members of the Houso of Commons, and ha was secretly ao cused of holding the same views, although 'the persons responsible for this trick knew it was fal=o. He had also lost a lot of support th r ough not patronising the hotels, and though his opponents thought' they had attended his political funeral he was still a very live corpse, and would yet give the enemy plenty of trouble.

CONCILIATION BOARD.

Dunedin, December 12

The carpenters and joiners' dispute was before the Conciliition Board yesterday. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners asked fora week of 44 hours, piy Is 4£d per hour, overtime time and a htlf, preference to be given to Unionis^F. Messrs Raid & Graj objected to being made parties, and quoted tbe decision of Juitica Edwards in the engineering dispute in Christchurch. The Board over . ruled tha objection at that stage, and also a request from Messrs Thomson, Bridger, & Co to exclude them as a factory, in accordance with a decision at Auckland. After heariDg the statement of each side, tho Board a^jjurned until Wednesday to give its decision.