LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1036, 9 July 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(Speoial to the Dailv Telegraph.) Auckland, this day. THE FOOTBALL SCANDAL

Tiir tommittee of the local Rugby Union appointed to enquire into the statement that a City Club player had beon offered money on condition that ho did not play his best game for the team he roprosonted in the City v, Newtown match last Satui'i day, has decided that two players are to bo disqualified from playing for ten years, and orderod oil all grounds under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Rugby Union for that period land that (in outsider bo ordered off nil grounds under the union's jurisdiction for lifo. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT An important decision regarding the rating of the Gas Company wan given to day by Mr. Bloomfield, Stipendiary Magistrate, The Auckland Gas Company appoabd against the assessment of tho City Counoel on the question of rating on tho machinory. The Magistrate hold that notwithstanding thoamonduiont to the Ratiug Act of 1896, by which machinery was exompt. tho principle to be followed was to allow a gross deduction of twenty por cent, from the ascertained rental value, making a fair deduction to cover the valuo of machinery. Ho hold that machinery did not include gasometers, mains, and other parts coming within the definition of plans. The actual amount of the assessment will bo a mattor for accountancy, but it is understood that tho assessment will bo increased as the result of tho decision, AMERICAN; ATHLETES Tho local Amateur Athlotio Association has decided to subscribo the £7O roquired as their contribution towards tho oxponsos of an American team of athlotes that nro being invited to tour New Zealand. TIGHTNESS OP PUBLIC MONEY The Treasury has again refused the Nortbcoto water supply loan of £(1000, Tho reasons givon aro the stringency of tho monoy market and tho clamouring of tho necessitous backblocks for all tho available money.