NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

UNION-AT OKDS. PJSCIPLINARV r INE UNPAID. IBr Tolcpr.aph-.-'.p.rcsS Asßopja(Jo>i,> AUc!(.lant)> February 26, When feeling ran high dnritig this istribo period a member" of Mio Trafij. trays Union was ordered by tire Com-mit-teo of Jlsflagoment- to pay a- fine of 10s. for his eon%et at a meeting hold » consider tho question of ■con-tributH-ig to the -strike funds. This n ember has porsastcntjy refu.-syd to pay the fine, and as' Micro is ail agreement between, ■toe ■union and tho Train ways' Oompanv. which demands that an unftnsindal member of the union must pay up or ho ■ dismissed from tlio service, ' tha matter has become one ott which jiieni■bofs of the union, as a. whole, -have- decided to express nil opinion p'.n -the action of t;ho carariiitteo in' jinposing. ; tho to. A. -meeting of llio'afieitiobn me.lt ffM 'held this morning., ati'hV discussed tlio. question, with the- result that by 43 votes to' 21 twrhooting di.sSen.ted. from tho action taken by -tlio committee-. It will ho further discussed by a meeting of tie:. morning mo,n -to-iii-giit. °

SUPPOSED SUICIDE. .Hokt.tlka,. February 26. Mr. Hotery B. Forstcr, a'forriier wjell. If'iidivn storekeeper of K-H-inara, who has been working at. .Messrs.," Sttjia.rt .atj'd 'Clsapmaifs sfttfniill'at Rinru, iva? found: this afternoon about a qti.at.tey of a iuilo froni the milj -ivk-h half his head blown away by dynamite, Tlio -deceased'., who. was 43 years of agc> had been ii'i very inoijfcrftHl} health for-some considerable time past. He leuvos a -wid'Ow -a'tid 'fin youftg children. He bad -.hoid- ■sorerai positions on local governing bodies aw* was o. ntemhef of the WeS-tl-'aild Edtic.a> toonßoards hut' owing to -uidiiferon* ■health 'had "never sat on. i ho hoard, AUCKLAND: -'SESSIONS* .<,'■' Audklartd,. February 25. In the Supreme. (Mrt to-day a iwo> ■dredged man .trained Thos. Edwards 'was guiid guitty of being an accomplice-- in the- toft Of a portmanteau from a toardinghquse. He ftps: ordered to eo'nio un for sentence when.called \m)on, 4 plea of nipt ttniity \va s entered % ■ Thos. Brown, ageri'GS, wlio'ljvcs at ftmsonby, u l ',°. a^t ' v^l assault .-on a H-yeaV-o.|d girl. Lengthy evidenco was heardand kt LJ, p.m. the' jtifri; wete .still out.': a hebjreW sJewpbt* '. ' -Aup.klantl, Fehr.Uar.v '26. pp. fo-und.afcioh-s'tono of tlto -now Hebrew school,' -which is to -ho'eree-fed behind the Synagogue, at a Cost of ■£MQ, was laid to-day fey Mr. Si A. Nathan, jn tho presence of a large ■gathcruig. MEiyiaimAt o'iet, • Clsbprrte, February 26. Mr.' R.. J.. Reynolds.,, a local .sheepfarmer* has giveii £fi!O(J for fltja Oreetior isf a, puhlifc hall -at. Tolaga • Day -aj s' memorial to his son .Ralph/a resident -of ■thitt district, who was.' -recently kiUctf iVhile playing poloO:DOFEUdVyS* FUSDS, .'. NapleF, .February-26. " ' The ; Ajmjial disinftt -njeetiiig. 'of QdtJfcfloffs carriecl .1 ■■re'splution s:t-.rib.ngly oi)» jecting to ilto si'clt funds '.proposal;',' fl'.nd ■ips'triic-ted tlio dfclega-tss, to.- : tlvb'-'cpnfc.t-enco fo opptis/3 the proj.feet streiiucijislj. PRISONER SEf)IfENCED. 1 . paimprstbtt, Ifeirnary 26. In tho'Suprctije Court, Joseph Ya:nc<i, . of Bulls, for criniiiial wa.i! mitfcncedto fire years'' ■tnipr-isd-ijnisat Wet yews' i-of.ofhiia:t'iv.e trea'tineiit-,