INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13727, 17 October 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

i ; * Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 16. A youth named Thomas Taylor, accused of havjug istolen a watch, chajin Mid sovereign c.i*e. at Gisborne, Mas to-day remanded to appear at Gisbonie. - Four clothier*, si!r«o doing tailoring business, vere chaiged at the Police Comt with failing 10 close at the statutory hour fixed for tuilors by requisition'. The facts -were admitted, but. for the defence Mr Baume claimed that as tailoring business wan not one-tenth of his clients' trade, they were not bound to close, liecause of their small tailoiiug.depnrlangnt. He pointed out that in the case of tobacconists it had been enacted fi tT)nt no shopkeeper could sell tobacco during <ue hours tobacconist* were closed, and argued that with a-similar enactment it whs not improper for his clients 'to '•■" remain open while having a tailoring "department. Decision' was* reserved. l i, WELLINGTON, Octol>er 16." Four Chinamen were to-day charged with selling Pakapoo tickets.' As it 2J»'<w oliown that, defendant* were only age&ts, the ilagibtiate imposed the comparatireljlight fine of £lO in each case. _ * 'Afv: Juiticc Denniston's; judgment-, inter; preting; on tlie application of itio Otago University Council, the will of the lat« Ait hut Beverley, leaves the Council *un> fettered as to the mode of expenditure of the Beverley bequest-. DUNEDIN, October 16. * Of fotnteen candidates entered for thi dental examination just concluded the following eight were -successful:—Jante? Aithuv Adam. Dunedm; : William Edpu Jlagley. Dunedin: Heibert Rv Clayforth, Dunedin: Roderick S. F. Craig, Hnvrifra; Bradleigh Crowhmvfa, Rotonta.; Gteorga Philip Evan«, Hastings; George Occil Wallace, Christcliurch; Leslie John Watt, Christchurch. _