NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 July 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association),

Lime Kiln Accident. Dunedin, July 30. The hearing of Jhc charge of manslaughter against Eobinson, engineer-in-charge, arising out of the fatality at the Government lime kilns, was concluded to-day. Evidence was given by E. Hay and Hursthouse, engineers, that under similar circumstances they would not have timbered the ground. The magistrate dismissed the charge. A Seaman lost overboard. Five days after leaving New, York the barque Herbert Fuller, which arrived last night, ran into a gale, during which a seaman (Frank Yates) was washed overboard. Conciliation Board. The Conciliation Board has now spent several days on tho dispute in the painting trade, most of the time taken up with questions of who should not bo made parties to the order of reference. Today there were numbers of lively passages of arms between members of the Board, chairman, employers and Union representatives, which culminated in the chairman threatening to have one person ejected. The employers charged one section of the Board with being partisans. The latter responded that the employers were conspiring to spin out the proceedings.

Death of a Veteran. Wellington, July 30, John M'Ewan, aged 71, formerly of the military settlers at Opotiki, died at the Porirua Lunatic Asylum yesterday. He had been under restraint for 31 years. It was mentioned at the inquest that among the patients is a woman admitted to the asylum in 1854. The Action of two Justices. Auckland, July 30. The action of two Justices of the Peace in connection with a school attendance case, heard in the Police Court last week, is to form the subject of a case in the Supreme Court. The point is that “Justices convicted alleged defendant without allowing evidence to bo called for defence.” At the Supreme Court in Chambers this morning, before gJudge Connolly, Mr J. R. Reid made an appHcation for a rule nisi calling on the two

Justices who heard the case to appear at the Supreme Court and show cause why a prohibition of the decision should not issue. His Honor granted the rule nisi, returnable on August 7th. The two Justices will have to appear at the sitting of the Supreme Court in banco on that day to show cause for their decision.