LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1546, 30 August 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

:(Fer Press Association.;) Christchurch, last night. A woman was charged with having worked a horse whilst it was Buffering from six open sores. Defendant stated that she had put a saok under the collar, and thought it would not affect the animal. She wqb fiued £2. For haviog procured liquor for a pro* hibited porson a mail was fined £o< DunediD, last night. o alj ook of oarthquake was felt at 3.87 this afternoon.

. Invercargill, last night. At the Supreme Court this afternoon a John Tonkins, for theft from the personflr was sentenced to two yeare’ hard labor. John Hayes, charged in conjunction, pleaded not guilty to theft of a watch and jewellery, valued at £SO, from a sawmill hut in 1908, got six months, His Honor stating that thß sentonoe was made light beoauso of tho youth of the prisoner and there being no previous conviction'for dishonesty. Daniel Swan will be tried for tho murder of bis wife to morrow. Tho Arbitration Court sat here ta-day. The Inspector of Factories was granted leave to withdraw a complaint against the proprietor of the Western Star newspaper for boys having been paid deficient wages and not being indentured. W. G. Quicke was proceeded against for paying less than the carpenters' award wages to a youth said to have asked him for work. His father wonld not have him indentured. . Ho was now receiving seven shillings I | per day under a permit. The Court held that no breach had been disclosed, as the respondent never was, asked to take the lad as an apprentice. There might have been something to answer if the ohargo had been working a lad without a permit. Mederer, a sawmiller, was fined. £1 and costs for casually 'employing.a man as shoeman at laborers’ wages while the mill was being got ready for work, W. J. Perry, sawmiller, was fined £lO for paying a elabman less than the award rate, ignorance being pleaded. Perry was charged with employing a youlh at work for whioh he would have had to pay a man award wages. The Court pointed out that clause 4, containing the Bohedule of wages, aleo stated that a boy, 16 years of ago could be employed at 3s 6d per day provided his wages were raised one shilling per day each year. It was open for the employer to work the lad in any branoh. The boy must be held to have become a man when he had reached his majority. A person over 21 yearn might still be Inoapable of doing a man’s work, and provision was made to meet euch oases.. The charge was therefore dismissed. J. W. Watson, tailor,was fined £lO and costs for paying a machinist of seven years’ experience 6b a week, and latterly 7s fid. A girl said she was an apprentice to Watson, but was never giwn apprentice work, and did all his machini*. The Court pointed out that the lowjßiS | rate should be 255, this including maC* I hinists. , - 1 o | I-——.—.