NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1450, 27 May 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Tcloiraph-Press Association.! » —= ' REEFTON TROUBLE. Reefton, May 25. Tlietf are no further developments in connection with the- mining trouble. Ths Minister for Mines has telegraphed to the County Council that. Cabinet will consider the question of relief works. Mr. Pagan, secretary of the Miners' Union, i.s still in Wellington. The men are holding sports on Wednesday next, CONTINUATION CLASSES. Feilding, May 25. The Minister for Education has approved the Education Board's regulations for compulsory attendance at continuation classes in tho Wnnganui education district, and tho experiment will first he tried \u Wanganui and suburbs, where conditions are exceptionally favourable.

WRIT FOR £1500, Napier, May 25. A writ, clainunct ,£lsOll damages, has been filed by I'\ E. A. Gordon, poultry expert, against the "Xew Zealand Times" for alleged libel in r?gnrd to the efficacy of his system. The case will be heard in Wellington. FATAL ACCIDENT. Gisborne, May 26. A labourer named Wm, Burton, aged 26, while assisting to load frozen meat from a lighter to the Marere yesterday, received fatal injuries through ft quarter of beef slipping out of the slings and falling on him. Ho was conveyed to the hospital, where lie died last night. A FARMER'S SHOCKING DEATH. Dannevirke, May 2fi. Sven Andersen, a fanner, of Ormondvills, was dccapiiatcd at ijannevirko by the train on Saturday night. The train was drawn into the station safely, but when shunting the driver felt a bump, and deceased's body was found between Hie motals and the platform, with the head seven paces away. RACECOURSE ACCIDENT. Wanjanui, May 2G, Howard, the jockey injured at the races, shows signs of improvement, although still unconscious. BODY FOUND. Ounedin, Mi.v 2f>. The body of .lamps f'indlaler, farmer, of iitM'd T'i year-', who left his home mi WYdne-day ;>ft■■inotsu, was >e-i-iivci'i'd in (he Calling Lake this moruiiig.