NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 November 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

Fatal Accident. Auckland, This Day,

A seven year old son of Mr J. W. Brady, a settler of Papamoa. fell on a bar knife which entered his abdomen and made a terrible gash extending right up to the chest. Ho died on Sunday. A Peculiar Position.

The Public Works Department refuse to carry liquor on tha section under their control from Porootaroa Tunnel southwards. A iargo consignment of spirits and beer is now lying at Porootaron station where the working of the railway's control end. Returning New Zealanders. Wellington This day. A cablegram from Mr Pilcher gives the names of the three men returning on the Wilcannia with L'.eut Joyce as 4495 Fairclough Dunedin; 3527 Morrish Marl borough ; and 367 l Latham Dunedin, The message s'a;es that 3058 Delay of Wellington was injured in the knee and is returning soon. Labor Disputes. New cases have been filed with the Conciliation Board by the engines drivers union and grooms and conductors union for betterment of their terms of employment. Point Elizabeth Liability. - Wellington, This Day. The Government has declined to either vary the conditions under which the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Coal and Railway Company holds its leases or issue fresh leases. Prison Labor. The Minister of Justice expresses himself entirely satisfied with the result of the experiment of using prison labor for planting trees in the Itotorua district. He will next month inspect the work done, and then decide whether more prisoners should be employed in the same way in other parts of the colony. A Solicitor Suspended. Chris rcHUEcn, This Day. Robert Thomas Leathim, solicitor, was suspended by Judge Dennistan from practice for six months, on a charge that he sent a demand to a woman for the return of a bicycle on a Magi3trate's Court form, leading the woman to believe it was a court order.