NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

,'.." (By Telegraph.'—Press .Association.)/ ■''■: ■ ;charge;of attempting to? .v.;;.;Vf\//:;; ; murder/ .o,' : -y^:[. /:;■/■; ; : .Auckland,; January 24. • ■! George OlEyeT,' charged ;with/attempting.' to murder/.his/wife' at Kirigsland;. and -with attempting; suicide, appeared at, the Police Court to-day. A remand for a,: week/was. granted,', bat ori/aocused'a bottnsel;appJying.,for bail on the ground' that: imprisonment was 'affecting accused's health, the police' objected, because' Olliyer. had told a. constable he-was not sorry, for what- he had done, and, only wished he had:to,meet the;cnds of justice.by the; last sentence, of the law;. The application for bail was adjourned. -V..'.: -■':/;■'' ■' ;r: "} "CALEDONIANS."? '-,'' : /-'Wanganui, January 24.-/;' ■ Tho "Wanganni Caledonian Society held its twenty-seventh annual sports meeting • on The weather was gloriously ■<;. fine,- and/ the .attendance consti-. 'tuted/- a record.';.' The Highland 1 ; events were • more prominent than; usual, competitors \ coming • from all parts ■■'. of- New Zealand!' The points prizes wero won as . follows :r-Piping, Pinlay'son; dancing, :J. M'Kechnic; -junior dancing, E. ■ M'iNiven. Local men /won the "running and pedestrian / evohts/ M'Fadyen, M'Dowell,; and Sutherland tied- in tossing the caber;' M'Dowcll won the .throwing the hammer event,', and M'Fadyen putting the 'shot. Catling won the. Cumberland style wrestling/ and the.,catch-as;catch-can. In, : the evening a! most;.successful "concert was held. Tho society's. membership now. to-, tals- four hundred—an increase of - two hundred during tho past two years.,- •/ -/ . .? BREACH OF AWARD.' /:. -■' .■..,;• Chf'istchurch, '/January 24. Mr. W. H. Bishop, S.M.,.gave judgment to-day :in' the/industrial.case Haggor.',, v. Skelton, Frostick,' and. Co., an ; alleged breach of award with respect'to the deduction from'apprentices' wages for holi- : days 'in' carnival weok.. ~Tho: magistrate ,said he"had looked into' the matter : very carefully, '.'faking;.the .award as a whole, lie had no.hesitation in saying ., that a. breach had been made. '//The'case being, a test one, ho imposed a nominal penalty of / 205.,'. with ■ costs oh each of the two counts. Leave to appeal ''■ was granted. Y "THEY/CUT HIM DOWN." v/ ■ '■';','".■. . Auckland, January 2-1. ' Near Dargayille. last, week a; man was discovered by 'some bushmen'. suspendid to'a tree by.his braces.'- They cut him down, and wont to get assistance to carry/ tho: body to.Helensyillo. '.'■; Oh'their, re-, turn the supposed corpse had disappeared, and, later on, tho man was/discovered,' and was brought, to .Auckland to-day in chargo of a'.policeman. v// : NEWS IN/BRIEF. ' ,» r ■.:.'- -Gore, January 22.' '. The .Mataura Kiver- was so muddy today, /that; tho.operations V.of the papermaking department at the Mataura mills had to, cease. ;./ -' f ... ".-,' ..'.'■.'. .; Goro, January 22. ' Tho dryness of theseason has affected the-; gross and '. turnip/ crops, and sheop and lambs aro not. as forward as was .oxpoctcd. Killing operations commence 'at the Mataura'Freezing Works, on Monday. •■■'. - ■ ■'■■'■"' •■.■■-■.-'.'■■■ ; ; ; : ' ■