TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 January 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

• I [pee. press association.] CONTIIACTOE INURED. Wairoa, This Day. Mr C. F. Pulley, the Harbour works contractor, sustained a broken rib and a slight fracture in one lung owing to his car overturning on the Erasertown road. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. ' Ashburton, This Day. •A. serious accident occurred on the Mount Sominors road yesterday afternoon. Mrs Nevin, with u oue-year-old baby and three other children, Mrs JBowden senior, aged 80 years, and Messrs Bowden and iVevin were driving ma heavy spring cart. .Nevm alighted at the foot of the hill to lighten the load, but some distance up the incline the horse began to run backwards. BoAvden jumped out aud tried to stop it, but the cart went over the side and fell thirty feet into the shingle below, turning over three times, ami finally resting on two of the women. One child fell among the horse s tect, but the others were thrown, clear. With some difficulty the cart was lifted off the women, who were unconscious. Mrs Nevii! had a collar bone broken smd Mrs Bowden and one child were much bruised.

WELLINGTON WHARF TROUBLES. Wellington, This Day. The most', serious melee since "th strike ended occurred between the King'sai?d Glasgow wharves a night or two ago, while a party of half a dozen coalworkers (who were new hands) were returning t from the e.s. Rotorua after their 'day's work was finished. They were set upon b'y a party of exstrikers numbering fifteen or twenty, and a general fracas oeeurred, in which bottles, lumps ot. coal, and fists were used, and one ex-striker severely handled. His injuries are not serious, however. Enquiries show that practically no pillaging lias been reported since tlio strike. Prior to the strike a good many complaints were made, but it is very difficult to detect the offenders. A wharl official says that compared with the aftermath of the strike ot 1890, the present conditions are comparatively quiet anil peaceful: no very serious scrimmaging between old and new hands had occurred, whereas after the former strike there were, clashes for twelve months afterwards. As a result of a conference between the employers and the executive of the Arbitration Union, tlu- labour foremen have had strict instructions to give preference to men who joined during the strike, and any foreman not conforming to this instruction is Hable to dismissal. Although two or three hundred preference bail--o-e? have been issued, very tew were in evidence when labour was put on this morning. ' » fi >" are not really necessary, however, as the foreman know most of the old and new hands by sight. About three .or four hundred ex-sh-ikers are about the wharves todav, unable to get work.