NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1922, 3 December 1913, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By TiitojrraDh,-Press Association,) —— —* SEQUEL TO A LAUNCH TRIP, : DAMAGES FOR SLANDER. InvoFfiargill, December 2, 111 tho Supreme, Court to-day John Edgar, jimr,, Mic/J Alexander Kl'liott % ;G2i)o, far alleged slander. The plnisitiff is n liiuncli proprietor :it tnwn, and was engaged to convoy defendant's sick sou from Rinloeli 10 Queenstown. Ho went to Kinloch, ami took his passenger aboard, but at Elfin Bay the main shaft of the engine brokp, ancl the journey had to he Abandoned. Defendant subsequently told a Qncenstoivn resident, in the bearing oi' other persons, that tbo delay was caused bv Edgar being drunk, His Honour found hi favour of plaintiff, and awarded £25 damages and costs, LAND RATING ACT, Oastiaru, December 2. Mr. George Livingstone lias been rev elected chairman of the Waitaki County Council. Tbo council decided to oppora tbo re-enactment of paragraph C., section j! of tbo Rating Act, l!)0fi, and to rreommend tbo Government to maintain the Rating Act of 1910, provided, it made semd tn tenants whoso leases' were entered into prior to that date tim difference between tiie old and new rati OTAQO'S HINTERLAND, Oainr.ru, December 2. The Qaniaru Expansion League Is taking .steps to establish more satisfactory cominunica'tkfli with' Nasefoy, with a view to trade extension with Central Otago, ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER. Auckland, December 2. At the Supreme Court Arthur Nicholson was sDiiieiieed to five years' Imprisonment for attempted wife nmrd< r,' and Ronald Duncan to seven years' for rape. In Nicholson's ease the Judge ex-; pressed sympathy with tho prisoner, ■ who was deserlccl by bis wifo without her giving any reason.

SHAW AND THE TIMARU PROPERTY CO. Ghrtstcfturch, December 2. The case- of thn Official Assignee in tho estate oi' Waller Shaw, formerly a solicitor at Timaru, against the TiinKni Property Co., was continued to-day. Shaw was in the hex the whole '.lay. His crocs-examination was not con- 1 eluded when the Court rose.