LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In accordance with our usual custom, the “Chronicle” will not be published on New Year’s Day. Advertisers will please take notice. The Patea County Council publish their dog tax fees for 1908 in another column. Messrs. F. R. Jackson and Co. have notified us that the s.s. Athenic left Hobart at 6 p.m. on Friday, and is due in Wellington on Wednesday morning. The attention of farmers and others is directed to the advertisement of Geo. H. Scales, appearing in another column. Captain Edwin reported at 12.55 p.m. on Saturday as follows :— Northerly, moderate to strong winds, but strong winds to gale after 35 hours; glass fall, tides high, sea heavy, rain probably heavy. Measurement shows that Hartnett’s record time of 1min. 18sec. in the single-handed sawing at the Axemen’s Carnival at Eltham on Friday was made on a block 1½ inches under the correct size. The time, therefore, will not be recognised. For the fortnight just ended, the export of butter from the Auckland province, exclusive of that from Poverty Bay, totalled 350 tons, the value being about £32,048. Of this total, 1088 boxes were consigned to of England ports, 12,169 boxes to London, 705 boxes to South Africa, and 47 boxes to the South Sea Islands.
The annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute, commencing on Thursday will be important one. Nineteen remits from various centres are to deal with the promotion and payment of salaries of teachers on some other basis than the average attendance.
Immediately after the holidays the Minister for Lands (the Hon. R. McNab) will inspect the suggested sites for a dairy school at Feilding and Hawera. About the middle of January he will go over some of the Crown lands between Napier and Opotiki and return to Wellington by way of the Main Trunk Railway.
On Boxing Day, at the Church of England, Hunterville, Miss Frances Weston, youngest daughter of Mr. S. Weston, formerly of Vinegar Hill, was married to Mr. Edgar Smith, youngest son of Mr. Jas. Smith, of Taihape. The Rev. J. Blackburne officiated. The bridesmaids were Miss Gladys Aiken and the little Misses Aiken and C. Weston. Mr. C. G. Ross acted as best man.
The “Auckland Star” publishes the following paragraph :— Since the passage of the Gaming Act it has been generally presumed that the measure confined betting to racecourses and that betting off the course were in contravention to the law. This is an erroneous idea, for nowhere does the Act say that betting shall be limited to the course. It does provide that places where betting may not be indulged in are the street, common gaming houses and so on, but outside these places one may bet when and how he chooses. Thus it would be perfectly feasible for a bookmaker in Christchurch to make a book on the present A.R.C. meeting so long as he kept clear of the places wherein, according to the Act, it is illegal to bet.
At the Police Court on Saturday morning, before Mr. A. A. Gower, J.P., and Mr. T. D .Cummins, J.P., Joshua Smith, alias William Smith, was charged with being drunk and disorderly upon three different occasions within the last six months. The accused pleaded guilty to all charges. For the first charge he was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment, for the second charge £1 or three days’ imprisonment and a prohibition order was ordered to be taken out against him. The third charge was most serious, the accused having been arrested for being drunk in the Court House yard and using obscene language. The man denied using any bad language. A witness who appeared for the accused gave evidence that proved the man guilty. A sentence of one month s imprisonment was inflicted, the sentences to run concurrently. Two helpless drunks were remanded until Tuesday, and one other, who failed to answer to his bail, was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment.
About 130 persons attended at the Wellington Town Hall on Friday evening, where Mr. Keir Hardie was entertained at a welcome supper. Speeches were made by the Mayor (the Hon. T. W. Hislop) and the Hons. J. Rigg and W. W. McCardle, M.L.C.’s. In responding to the toast of his health Mr. Hardie said that had he believed all he read at Home about New Zealand and its extreme policy, he would have hesitated about risking his profession by being seen here. He conveyed a fraternal message from the Labour Party of the House of Commons, and said his visit to New Zealand had no political significance. He was simply here to meet old friends and campaigners in the early days of the movement at Home. He urged the need for Imperial Conferences of labour, just as they held Imperial Conferences now, though labour, which was mostly affected by the questions dealt with was not represented. If his tour round the dominion served even indirectly to bring those connected with this movement in touch, thereby making the way for united policy in the near future, it would not have been undertaken in vain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 30 December 1907, Page 4
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