MOTORIST & GRAVE CHARGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1729, 21 April 1913, Page 8

MOTORIST & GRAVE CHARGE.

■ Timaru, April 80. Tho hearing of a charge of man.' slaughter against C. H. Besley of running down a cyclist with his motor-car was begun yesterday, but waa not com. plotcd. Tho ovidcnco was similar tc that given at the inquest.

LESS WHEAT AND WHY. Tlmaru, April 20. Mr. J. Talbot, chairman of tho Tiraaru Branch of tho Farmers' Union, in his annual statement, put tho averago wheat yield for this district at not more thai: 22 to 21 bushels per acre, and tho total not more than two-thirds of last year. Other branches of farming wcro satisfac. tory. He considers it probablo that wheat-growing would bo largely given, up owing (1) to tho cost of labour, and' tho difficulty of petting it harvested in,, time! (2) low prices, which were kept ■ down by possible Australasian imports under a low tariff; (3) high wheat freight? to Britain; (4) tho .working of the Do. fenco Act in taking men away to camp, leaving teams idle. PRISONER'S JUMP 4 RESULT. Auckland, April 19. -Joseph Gibbie, who had been arrested on a charge of drunkenness, after a determined resistance was placed in a motor-ear. While being carried to the police station ho attempted to jump from tho car. Tho constablo seized his arm. and GibbiVs leg caught in a wheel and was broken. Gibbio was removed to tho hospital.

THE FATAL AUCKLAND FIGHT. ( Auckland, April 20. Harold Gladstone Brown was charged at the Police Court to-day witli tho murder of Manuel Snntos, this caso beine th# sequel to a fifflit between the two wen. Accused was remanded at the request of the police inspector, who said that tho charge would bo reducod to manslaughter. "Remember yon may meet with an accl- | dent anv day. R<wnb«r t''« Or?™ Ac- ' cident Corporation's Loader Tolicy covers nil accidents and 50 diseases. lleiuembet. to tako out a Policy To-day.—Advt.