NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Bj Tolceraph.—Prees Association.)

AN INQUEST HELD UP. Reef ton, January-20. . F .The "inquest on E. Dmvnie, maiiagcrforeimui at the Energetic Mine, was re-sumed-io-da-y. ' ilr.',-Evans,' the general manager 'of tho Consolidated Mine, gavo evidence that' Downio might linvo intended timbering on Saunders's orders. To tho foreman' of tho jury witness said ho abr solutely but. respectfully * declined to answer a question as to whether Downio had been getting a higher salary than the. mine manager,'stating that the fifteen men in the mine "ot- higher wages {than -Mine- managers. ;; Ho demanded an adjournment.to obtain legal assistance f9r Saunders." Ho held tllat the question regarding' ; salary: was immaterial, iiud' irrelev.ruit; hut if counsel advised the. men'to.'give evidence as to salaries iie'wouldrt Owing to the le-gal vacation, almost all the lawyers aro away, and the Court adjourned till January 29. • ' " THAT WAR-SYORN HALI., '". Walhl, January 20. :' The Miners' Union Hall case has'commenced. The old union, affiliated with the Federation of. Lalxrar,' is claiming £silo damages and.' possession of tho hall' from the new -union, registered under the Arbitration Act, tho latter having taken possession after the riot towards tho end of 1912. The old'union •ss asking also that tho 'naine of' Edward Summers, a trustee and member of the Arbitration Union, wlio refuses to agree to tho hall being vested in the Federation, bo removed from the register as joint owner, and that the'names of two others be'substituted as trustees.' GLUE TO A GRIME. Naplor, January. 20. • Six or nine months , ago Napier . was subjected, to an epidemic of burglaries, ail efforts of tiie police to' discover; the perpetrators proving' futile. Quito' unexpectedly, . however, fresh light has been thrown on the mystery by the arrest of' David Conway Burn,.at' Hastings. A quantity of' the missing valuables was found in his possession, and 7 the prisoner admitted beiiig concerned in two of the burglaries.' Subse-quently a man named Carpenter was arrested at Auckland on -a charge of being concerned in the thefts. - THE RADIUM PROPOSAL. ■ ' PalmorstOn, January .20. 'A proposal is being made to establish n. radium institute for tho North Island, with Palmersten for its centre. Tho Borough Council has agreed unanimously to transfer one acre of ground to tho i'uturo.trustees -of the institute, niid to support its establishment. Dr, Martin leaves for tho Old Country in. April, and will ma.ko exhaustive inquiries regarding, radium, and report on his return. ' * : ■ REGORD CAR TRAFFIC, Auckland, January 20, ■The holiday traffic on the Auckland tramways surpassed al! previous records. In eleven days, from Christinas. Eve to January 3, inclusive, 1,706,0(13: passengers' were carried, as compared ' with 1,409,174 for the same period last year/ The largest number ou any oiie day was 215,793 on Christmas -. Eve. Receipts during the period totalled £11,565. CUTTING THE BLOCK UP. . ~ • Dannevlrke, January 20. Two hundred and four applications have been received for fourteen sections in the Tah-otaife and Tamaki Blocks, to bo balloted for to-morrow. The area aggregates 1585 acres, and the sections range from 89 to 222 acres of dairying and pastoral land.