RESENTFUL EMPLOYED

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 4

RESENTFUL EMPLOYED

'';'':[ A; MACHINE.\ >;: . (By Telegraph.—Press - Association.)"'.-.... ; , ; : : Gjsbbrne, September 19-'. : • At tie.' Courts ,to-daj>; -'befora Mr.. Justice.Chapman'; cently. employed: as a machinist; by ;Ehe. "Gisb'orne.Times".Co., Ltd.,'was charged with committing a>mischief,to.a printing; machine, i Accused ; had;, been - dismissed from the'company's employment, openly stated, his .intention of "fixing" the machine so;as.to 'preveht.;the/publication of the "paper. Accused pleaded not, puilty,: and was defended by. T;' Burnard, but. after hearing voluminous evidence .and 'a retirement,- of. .forty minntesi the ; jury'returned;a: verdict of guilty. In view of • a second charge, to be heardl to-morro"w, of.-alleged;-theft-;of a portion: of another machine: in the office,sentence on -the first; charge was .deferred.

■■'■ Perhaps, in • later days, many" present.. . Wadestowri happenings will be dated by reasoiivof : . their connection with Saturday night's gale which caused.so. much perturbation' in> numerous that yesterday the long-sustained interest in the tramway construction: works, was totally /eclipsed ;; in the ; : narrative.;of "gale .incidents.. Among; these may. be noted 'the;'case of a- resident'living: on a exposed hill-side, • who_': spent ;the greater part. of! Sunday morning : looking for his residential rbbf-;which had been; almost bodily detached during the storm. One ten-feet long: piece of: corrugated iron he discovered in-, the back-yard of a vresidence about two ' hundred, yards .away where it had '■;■. (fortunately harm* ;lesslyj: aeroplaned over -many, intervening houses. Another resident had. a: rather alarming experience.' When'the"gale was! at its height-ii tremendous bombardment occurred'along: the roof-top. With a view to investigation he;' sought., the 'electriclight switch /but no-illuminant appeared owing to the lireakiiig of the wires along; the Main Roafe.a'nd with" this first,check-' mate'-, he"- decided .to. postpone '.inquiry.-. At dawn he hurried/out expecting-to see some of the roofing missing, .but instead ho-saw thafShis. building: had'received, the addition \f a dome in .the "shape of tho lower ball- of a water-tank with two; of the .tank-s]and legs still, Where the derelict, cam'o from )s;.the._puzzle now exercising that, domestic Vcircle;. A horse can'..h'anl;on, rails .nine .times the load that it'can on"a; well-constructed, carl-road.,' ':--;J<y'; : .-.. -V: :;; :!:^!i Sugar is an.;iiricientiuxury.;v The. Chin., ese have beenjeating it for'at least. lOOf) years. . . -.'■-.; ■-$■'•'■ ''";-■• ■•'■■. Vv. -'A/i'::- ;.■''.;■