TELEGRAM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1553, 15 July 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAM

• l-Hi; • ... ' ,\I lON Price of a Foot. Auckland, To-day The jury gave a verdict for LBOO I against the Tramway Company for tie aoI cident by which North lost his foot. Coptic Prosecution. Welli-oton, To-day. The twenty-one sailors who refused to go to f-oam in the Coptic have instructed Mr >Shaw to take proceedings against ihe master and owner of the vessel for unlaw* ful prosecution. Theft. A man named Fred Stock was arrested this morning on a charge of stealing an overcoat and valuable paper amounting in value to L7OO. from a chief named Wiere Turoa at Foxton The Mails. The - ity of Sydney, with the June English mails, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 6tti instant, one day late. The instralia, with the Jane colonal mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 12 th June, two days in advance of time-table date. Employment. A deputation from employers of females and boys waited on the Premier to-day, protesting against Bradshaw’s clause in the Factories Act Amendment Bill. Tbe deputation urged that they were fte-1 qnently called upon in cates of emergency to keep their employees after hours. Mr ! Stout in' reply said that as far as girls were concerned, be would not make ady alteration, but he suggested that when tbe Bill was before the Council a clause should be inserted providing for the issue of permits in case of emergency for the employment of boys only after ordinary hoars. On Dit. Dunedin. To-day On dit that the recent totalisator diepute led to the issue of a writ for L 2,000 for defamation of character.