NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1751, 16 May 1913, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—l'resd Association.)

OATH OF TWO TRAM MEN. CBOWX CASE BREAKS DO WW. Cliristchurch, May 15. Kugene Allen, tramway conductor, was charged at tlie Supreme Court with perjury in respect tu a recent. sicettloul, and found not guilty. Jt is tindeistcud that the Cr-jwn will enter a stay ot proceedings against William Organ, motorman. who is also .similarly charged. am! whose iielMiee is said to be (he same as Allen's. LEFT FOR MOKOHINAU. NOT SINCE 11 HARD or. Whangarci, May 15. La*l Sunday week Mr. Praser, Government lighthouse expert, accompanied by three others, left Yi'hangarei in a launch for Mokohinau lighthouse. They were due .tack within five days, hut up to this morning no tidin.es had been received •Jrorn them. Mokohiuau is not connected by telephone. A LAST "GOOD-NIGHT." Greymouth, May 15. A mail named Walter Davis was found dead iu a but on Tuesday morning at Otira. At the inquest the evidence I showed that the previous night he got into his mate's bunk, the mate occupying that of deceased. Deceased was in bed when his mate arrived, and remarked: "l J m in your bunk; you can get into mine." Later lie said: "Give wo n light; it's the last you'll give me.' Deceased was given a light, and his mate testmed that, he (deceased) was smoking when the candle was blown out, deceased iu reply remarking, "Good-night, Dnvey. Next morning deceased was found dead, -the jury returned a verdict ol' death from heart failure. Davey is believed to have no relatives iu the Dominion. His mother is in Zeelian, Tasmania, and ho was a native of South Australia.

FIRED STACK OF PEAS. Chrislchurch, May 15. In the Supreme Court this morning, JlntheiV\Finlay Pnterson, convicted of having set fire to ft stack of peas at Ashburton, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and two years' reformative treatment. PERJURER GAOLED. Christchurch, llav 15. At the Supreme Court to-day Arthur William Unit, who had been convictcd yesterday of perjury, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, ilis Hoit : our took into consideration Hait's previous g'ood character, and the fact that he had a wife and children. THE GAOL BREAKER. Palnicrston North, May 15. Grove, one of tv.-o escapees from the Palnicrston Gaol, was recaptured last, night after ten days' IHiorly. Gaoier Glceson, accompanied by Detectives Quirkc and il'Swoeney. and Constable Thompson, effected (he capture in a house at Terrace End. Groves was found under a b.il, and gave 110 trouble, lie has been remanded till to-morrow.

A MISSING BARQUE. ■Auckland, liny 15. It now transpires that the barque Nomia was posted at Lloyd's as iiiiss-nr; in December Inst, so that it swms likely that the message, which was picked up at Mangonui Bhilf last week, was genuine. The vessel was posted at Lloyd's as missing on December 1S last. She le't Newcastle for the West Coast of' South America (for Antofagnsta) on July 10, 1012, and ought to have arrived in Sop'emlx'r following. After she put tn sea nothing was heard of her. < The Xotuia was orij, Milally the Auehomairn, and was built of steel in'lß9l at Maryport, Scotland. BOOKBINDERS' DISPUTE. Auckland, May 15. ; An industrial dispute in the V.uokbinding trade in. Auckland was brought before the Conciliation Commissioner, but was adjourned until June 10.* Air. I'os-. sor said in the interval between settleinput in December and the submission of the matter to the Court there were developments in the south (hat resiulc-d in the union deciding to try to obtain a Dominion award, in view of t lie fact that proceedings were pending in Wellington and Christcliurch, lie would ask for Ihe adjournment of tlw case lor a month. The Christcliurch Union hoped for a rise of 2s. Gd. in wages, and ihe Auckland Union was prepared to stand or fall by the Christcliurch award. The adjournment was granted on the casting vote of the Commissioner.

OPIUM FINES PAID. Invci'cargill, Jlay'M. . Lock Kin, one of the Chinese iined_ in connection with the opium cases on AYednesdav,. applied to the magistrate for a reduction "of the fines, which in his casn aggregated iCO. Counsel for defendant. Mr. J. Motfett, stated that Kin was fiti years old, and suffered from chronic bronchitis. He would not pay JECO, and the rigours of imprisonment might seriously affect Kim. The magistrate reduced the penalty by <C2O. All the fines, totalling .£75, have been paid. MOTOR COLLISION CASE. Invercarqill, Slay 11. A. L. King and Mrs. King, of Blulf, proceeded against Tlios. Stone for the recovery of ,£2OO. being damages for alleged injuries to plaintiffs and damage to their ear'in connection with a motor collision on Che Riveiton Rood on Eantcr Monday. The magistrate said that the plaintiffs were quite entitled to recover, and he gave judgment for ,£136. In the ca?e of E. A. Niclwl v. Stone, a claim for damages in connection with injuries arising out of the King-Stone motor collision, plaintiff bcingone of the occupants of King's car at the" time of the occurrence' judgment was given in favour of plaintiff for ,£2O. A ■ stay of execution was granted, pending appeal in both cases.