NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 6 June 1913, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Tetograph.—?resa Aaaoole-tion.)

4 ERROR OF JUDGMENT. FATAL STREET COLLISION. Timaru, Jumo 5. Tho Supremo Court was occupied for most of tlio day on a chargo of manslaughtor delimit C. 11. Besley, arising ovor a fatal collision between hit) car and a cyolist named Percy Dixon, a postal official, onApril 1. Tho prosecution alleged tliat accused was on tho wrong sido of tlio road when ho met tho cyclist. defonco denied that, nsserting that the cyclist was on tho wrong wdc, and that tho cur was swerved to the right to «avo a collision, and tho cyclist also turning off. Iho collision occured. Tho jury, after a long retirement, returned a verdict that accused wa.9 guilty of an error of judgment, but not of culpable negligence. • Th:a judge eaid that meant an acquittal.

SERIOUS OFFENCE PROVED. Invcrcargiil, Juno 0. Tho re-trial of Frank Jamas M'Farlmio, charged with assault with intent to commit rapo (in which case ths previous jury disagreed), proceeded to-day. Tho jury, niter a retirement of two hours and a half, returned a verdict of guilty, and prisoner was sentenced to tiireo years' imprisonment with hard labour. S.S. KITTAWA A-LEAK. Westport, June 5. Tlio Kittawa arrived from Lvttclton yesterday with four feet of water in No. ii hold. Heavy weather caused a leak on tho starboard side. A pood deal of oargo was damaged and consignees fear a loss. Itepalrs woro effected, and tho steamer left for Greymouth. SHIPS & FREE LABOUR. New Plymouth, Juno 5. Tho Taratiaki Chamber of Commerco passed a resolution protesting against any company or employer of labour entering into any compact which, may prevent free labour boing employed if necessity arises, and considering that any such agreement will bo prejudicial to tlie interests of tlio Dominion. Timaru, June 5. It is stated that the Union Steam Ship Company have agreed to employ members of tlio new Waterside Union, as well as those of tlie Federated Union. COMPLICATED CIVIL CASE Timaru, June 5. Tho Supremo Court lias begun the hearing of a complicated civil ciso, in which & firm of builders sufe a local banker for about .£2OOO for erecting a block of shops for defendant, and AValter Shaw, solicitor, whose affairs are now under investigation in bankruptcy. Defendant replied that plaintiffs nad been paid all moneys duo to them for the work by his partner. Plaintiffs say that these moneys were paid on account of buildings erected for Shawonly. The ease resumes to-morrow. LUMBER FROM AMERICA. Auckland, Juno 5. Two American lumber vessels, the Samar, a four-masted bargue. and tlio barquentin'e Amaranth, arrived lato last night and this afternoon respectively. They brought betwoen them 2,4fi0,000 feet of timber. Both vessels are from Columbia River.

"BY-LAW WENT TOO FAR." Auckland, June 5. An echo of the sensational runaway in Eden Terrace, in which a man named Smith, an employee of the Eden Terrace Road Board, was seriously injured fi; trying 1 to stop bolting horses, was heard in the court to-day, when Nathaniel Bloxam was charged with/ feeding his horses in the street in contravention of tho city's by-laws. The magistrate dismissed the caso, 6aying that tho ly-law went too far. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Auckland, June 5. When Sergeant Manigftn was on duty in Karangahcupe Road on Wednesday night ho was informed that a man, named Alfred Hutchinson, had cut his throat, and was at his residence. West StreOt. Upon arrival at tho house tho officer found tho tnan lying on the verandah with a handkerchief twd round his throat. Dr. Casoment Aitken was called in, find, when ho had dressed some light wounds, Hutchinson was taken to the look-up, where he was charged with attempted suicide. Next morning acoused was brought before Mr. 03. C. Cutten, at tho Police Court, but, upon tho request of tho polioe, was remanded for a week for mcdical treatment.