INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13447, 20 November 1907, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON,; Nov. 19., The ".training ship Amokiira will leave Wellington about- ihe end of ; the month on another cruise.and will proceed as far south as Stewart Island and will on hsr way up again call at- the Bluff. DUNEDIN, Nov. 19. At the Police Court in-day Donald MorrLson. licensee of the Marine; Hotel,' Poit Chalmers, was fined £5 and costs on a chargi.' of permitting drunkneness • on; his premises. Benjamin Curtis, tobacconist, pleaded ' noi guilty" ito"three charges of betting \totalisalj>r odd«|. The evidence for the" prosecution was that- a man named Gedden sent telegrams to Curtis from Welling inn and . Riccarton races : in August backing certain horsey the arrangement b:ihg that lie was to be paid at total.'sotor Odds if he won: Geddes.' won £B2 14s and in settlement Curiiy sent him a cheque signed by his son and which was dishonoured. Geddes instituted civil proceedings for the recovery of the money but was non-suited. -The defence was that the, bets were not made with Curtis himself. _who was lvinsj in n semi-conscious condition at the. time. The held the case proven.and said that;this: system of. gambling was the most, pernicious, in .existence. It, was quite clear that, defendant was a bookmaker in the habit of making beis and on this occasion he was dishonourable enough not to pay' the debts owing to him. He thought it- .was a mean 3 despicable act, and he did not intend to take a lenient' view of it. He would fine defendant. £2O on each of three charges with lis. 6d costs in each instance. / : BALCLUTr-HA, Nov. 19.. Th-i Otaco Methodist Rvnod met this morning at Balclutha. The Rev. W. Slade pres'dent of. the conference presided. The Rev. T. X. Griffen .of Oamaru was elected secretary.