NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2001, 7 March 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

PAINFUL CASE.

MAN'S TO HIS- WIFE,

(By' Telezraph.-Pr'ess Association.) ''"■ Dannevfrko, March 6:

James.Jlil)3, a labourer, was charged h'efonT thi) Magisrate. to-day with . asr saultirig his wifo with intent to do .actual bodily harm on October .18. Accused went home : intoxicated, and his /wifo then, went, and brought his Sunday beer,- which,' on returning, she hid; Accused then wanted a drink, but. was refused. Ho Presented this refusal, pushed his wife, and she fell, and broke a leg. She then crawled'into tho yard to get out of accused's way, and returned, to tho house when her husband had gone to bed. She sat in the kitchen until ho woko and lifted her into, bed, where .sho remained until Tuesday. A ..neighbour called' in a doctor that evening,": arid she was removed to tho Hospital. Sho did .not know that her leg was broken until the doctor'came. ■ The;doctor said that Mrs. Mills might, nover recover from tho elfects of tho injury.. Accused pleaded guilty, and Was committed to tho'Supremo Court for sentence.,

AN INJURED TROTTINO, HORSE. CLAIM AGAINST A CLUB. ' ChrJstchurch, March 6. At the Supremo Court, Clifford Tasker (Mr. Raymond) claimed £790 damages from the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club (Mr. Russell), in respect of injuries sustained by tho' horse, Michael Galindo, Tho horso was training on tho. clubs ground at Addington,* when it collided with adraught maro owned, by the club. It Tan away, and' sustained injuries which put it out of training. Tho horso had won three racc3 in four starts previously. Taskor claims in respect prospective winnings lost owing to tho club's i anlt. .Evidence i 3. being heard at length.' -

SENSELESS HOAX. Creymouth, March 6. A bottle picked tip on tho beach contained tho following message:—-"Send out the tug or rcscuoboat at once,- 16 miles south of Sevon ,Mile." It was signed by several persons known in. Greymouth. Steam was got up'on tho Harbour Board's whon it was discovered the, messngo Was a hoax! -The party had been.out flshing : on Sunday last.-' They admit. it was a. 'senseless joke, and mado no further explanation, except that thoy wanted,to's'eo what became of it.

.-. SCALED,MITRE PEAK. •'■: " " "' To An'au, March 6. ' M'itro Peak and Mount Balloon "woro both 1 successfully: scaled for the second timo early'last week by. Jack lt.'Alurrell,' Manapoufi, and E. R. Williams', Christehurch, under favourable weather conditions; Magnificent views of tho surrounding mountains wcro obtained.

- (By ; Telegraph.—Press;. Association,) .. RATHER LATE. .'■■•■ 'V Core, March' G. ■,: Oho of the.local labour agents says that 100 men from tho north called oh him 'for harvesting work during. ien days; •'•THio harvest -hew is /practically ovorV and tho men will not tako other work. .''Some of the men are from as faruort'h as Auckland.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS. • ' ChrlstcHurph, March' 6. , ' The. Hospital t Board has,been•notified, of two. fresh cases 'of..infahtile par'alysis in the North Canterburr district.'; This brings tho tofel : Wuftfi'o'rdf ,i of tjie.'latesfr cas.es was in f/hrisichiiTch, - and,'the'other, at ,o'pawa..';'."'',., .;' ' '.-'' Health Dopartmerit'asking'fo'r''.'instructions as* to the' best step's, to bo taken to deal with, the .outbreak; '■■.■.•

BIG BRIDGE DESIGN. FOR NAPIER INNER'HARBOTJR., ,','...,.. .'..'','.• NapiJer, March 6. : A copy of' the ,plan •of tho" proposed bridge across the.inner'harbour on tho East Coast railway lino has been received by the Hawko's Bay 'County Counoil from' the. Public-" Works Department. The bridge will measure 1232 ft. in length, and consist of 26 spans, of which one will bo,s7ft. 4in..long, twenty-' one 50ft. long,-and five 25ft. long. The width of the bridge will be about 4'sft., allowing 14ft. for tho railway, 18ft. for roadway, and 6ft. for a footway.

SAVAGE. COOLIE. .'..•'' Auckland, March 6. A telegram from Suva states that at Taviuni on February 22 an Indian attacked. another with a cano-knife,' inflicting terrible_ injuries resulting in the death of the victim in air hour. The crimo is due to jealousy. The murderer was arrested. ' ■

UNUSUAL POLICE SEIZURE. ! Auckland,! March 6. . At Paeroa on Tuesday tho police seized 37,000 feet of piuo timber, which, it is alleged, was illegally taken from Crown lands in tho'district.. It is likely to : form tho subject of a prosecution by tho Lands Department.

CRIMINAL TRIALS. Invercarglll, March 6. At the Supreme Court txi-day, before Mr.'Jn'stico Sim, 'William Preston, convicted of robbery with violence, was sen. fenced to threo yeare' hard labour and declared a habitual criminal. 'Charles Price"was found not guilty of assaulting and .wounding Katherine Price.