DOMINION NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15273, 25 June 1923, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

WEATHER IN CANTERBURY.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. CiriUSTCHURCH, Friday. After a very mild spell Hie weather broke overnight, with heavy snow in the suburbs and on the hills, but not in the city, where very cold southerly rain persists, ! wilhout sign of clearing. A CASE DISMISSED. WELLINGTON, Friday. The case against the manager of the Working Men's Club of selling liquor after hours was dismissed by the magistrate, Mr Page, to-day. The evidence of the chief witness for the proseoution was very unsatisfactory. He had given one statement to the police and another in Court. The charges, however, had not been substantiated, but the case was on the border line. OANADA'S PROBLEMS. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr D. Denharn, ex-Premier of Queensland, who is a through passenger from Vancouver to Sydney by the Niagara, said Canada was losing a large number of people to the United States, where wages were higher. He could not help realising that Canada had some very difficult problems ahead. MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS. DANNEVIRKE, Friday. Thomas Henry Jones was further remanded till Tuesday next on a charge of misappropriating funds, when the police will be ready to proceed. Bail was granted, and was forthcoming. YOUNG CRIMINALS. PALMERSTON N., Friday. In the Police Court Victor Kirner and James Scorringe, Weraroa escapees, pleaded guilty, and were' committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Wellington on two charges of breaking, entering and theft. Kirner had only been recommitted to Weraroa, following similar charges with another escapee at Palm'erston North, when he again escaped. FINED £SO FOR PAKAPOO. WELLINGTON, Friday. . In the Court to-day Ngan Chong, for keeping a common gaming-house in Haining street, was fined £SO, or two months' imprisonment. Chow Dick and John Smallbridge, for being foundon the premises, were fined £2, and costs. The police asked for a substantial penalty in the case of Ngan Chong, as in spite of numerous prosecutions and heavy fines pakapoo still flourished. N.Z. MATRICULATION. WELLINGTON, Friday. At a meeting of the Council Of Education yesterday, Mr Kirk (Gisborne) mentioned that the New Zealand matriculation examination was not recognised abroad as it should be. He said his son had been refused entrance to the Inns of Court, London, on this qualification. .A motion was carried unanimously that the Minister for Education be adVised to take such steps as would ensure that the matriculation examination of the University of New Zealand, or such examination as may be substituted therefor, be accepted as an entrance examination for fate several Inns of Court, London. A TRAIN DERAILED. PALMERSTON N., Friday. A mixed train from Napier was derailed two miles from Whakaronga and al>out six miles from Palmerston North. The mishap was due to the engine running into a slip in a steep cutting. Forty passengers were on the train, but no one was hurt. It Is expected that the line will be clear by 3 a.m. A similar accident to a race train took place near the same spot last year.

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. GREYMOUTH, Friday. In the Supreme Court, Charles Michael Doyle was tried on a charge of manslaughter, assault with intent to commit bodily harm, and assault causing bodily harm. He pleaded not guilty. The jury, after a three hours' retirement acquitted accused on all counts.