NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

i • —-* ■ ! STRAY DETONATORS BOY'S CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. f 'Klcsrash.-'l'j'es'i Assoclatim,) ■ Aucklamfj May 7. In tiifc Supremo Court, Sir, Justice Cooper gave his decision ou $ motinu for a how trial in ii»> case John Snowdon against tho Waitomo Comity Couu" t c n »> , IJI . which the jury awarded plaintiff £30U damages far injuries, his left hand having been shattered- by detonators ! tound awaf an abiiJidonocl forge. Tho 3 jury liold that plaintiff's injuries were , duo to carelessness-«i the. part of tho j council's workmen. Plaintiff, a boy. b 11 years of age, was playing with other bi;iy& ne.ivi' the afeanuoftcd fc;rgo . - uiifencnd lanci, about a chain from tlm , tnai.il road. i His Honour commented severely on 5 tl'o gross iiegligeiico on the part of'botii Government and County Counml workmen in leaving detonators loosely about. He dismissed the motion for a retrial, with costs. ENERCETIC CONSTABLE. , FOILS ATTEMPT AT SWOtDE, " Oxinedin, May 7, Christopher - Robinson, aged 2S years, ; a married man, when on the point of . arrest by Constable Harvey at Warspa s 1 yesterday .flu a .cliirgo o.f forging a £50 ' (dierjue, swallowed tlie -content's of a bottle of. poison. , Tho constable hastily bundled the man * ihto a trap and 'drove at a mad gallop * to the iicarest farmhouse, a mite distaut, and forced '• emetics upon tho prisoner, JIo kept this going till a «W J tor arrived. Tte prompt action, of the--3 constablo sayed tho .man's life. | POLICE WINE RAID. OVER 250 GALLONS DISCOVERED. Auckland, May 7. The policQ to-day visited the Afftitskerei Ranges, twenty miles from the city, and raided the house of a man suspected of selling win© to tho gtmir diggers. In a shed they discovered 2St)' t gallons of wine, which they carted to the railway Station where tfes eases- fill- |, eel a truck. Metcalf, the owner, will bo charged jvith sailing liquor without a | liccnse. » ARBITRATION COURT, i ' Invercargili, Mar 7. A Sittine of : tho Arbitration Court , iva-s held to-day before. Judge Stringer, 5 who Was first welcomed to .Irtvercai'-gill by iho la# Society. Mr. I'rvor, for tho employers, stated that the carpenters' dispute had been settled, the Otago award being adopted With the exception of the suburban clause. The Court accepted this. In tho butcher*' dispute Mr, Glass, for the employers, said that the union was prepared to accept t this Diuiodin award, with tho exception of the wages for hawking ear-tors, who wished to he piaeod on the same wages '• as assistant Shopmen. In the oaso of 1 the slaughtermen, conditions of Wages similar to the Ch-ristchwch award w-ero ; wanted, ami sftor evidence had been taken, the Court intimated thai; its d-c----s cision would be given later. JOURNALISTS' UNION, Invercargili, May 1. At the Ars)itratioii Court to-day tho Smitbland branch of the Dunodin ".ToiiriiiiHsts' Urtion applied f«,r an award. Mr. D. G. Sullivan ropresetited tho , union, and Mi\ F. Pirani tlifi employ' <ws, Mr. Snllivan stated that, "in' a Rnnferenoe. -it liad been agreed that tho £ -ant award shtiuJd bo takoss as a P basis of settlement with tho exemption j of tlio wages .for readers, to which the j >ini-on took esccp'tirin. After ovidon.-e , oHd argument, the Court ir-scnod dc- ■ wsion. WOOL & RRAIM HANDS. Napier, May 7. ..At a sitting of tho Coiiciliatiwi Couliei'J to deal with the wool and grain . store employees' dispute all matters were adjusted except as to the wages i of weeki}' hands and tho length of the award. Tit© term of these will prolwibly t be settled and the .Arbitration Court be ' l call«l upon to register an agreement i, only. t MALARIA ON ft STEAMER. Duncdin, May 7. s . The Norwegian steamer Hercules arrived this forenoon in tho outer har--6 b«mr flying t[io flag that signals sick'J ness -on board. About half the vrw ' had expcrionewl a touch of malaria fever and three of the ilrofueii who had not quite recovered wero ordered to bo removed to the Dunedin TlospitaL