TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 April 1916, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

9 •.i'KK PUUBd ABSUCJ HION. I i-Ui'UUTAXT DECISION BY AKIiIiiiATJOuN COURT. Waugaivui, This Day The Arbitration Court made an iinl>ci ta:i t, pronouncement to-day that is likely to have lar-reiK'liing effects upon empluyors audi employees in the Uormuioii. in a memorandum to Mie baiii.er»' labourers award it'says that wliii,- devlining to grant a permanent increase in wages to workers during tile war. the Louri grants, owing to the high cost oi living, a 10 per cent ooni.ik 10 labourers during the war and lor uiree m.nths afterwards, at the same time reserv uig tile right to review' us decision should oircumsianceß impiove or become worse. The Court suggtfelc.i that employers generally ■might coiisklor the granting oi a similar bonus. General satisfaction was expressed by Air lteardon, representing the labourers, with the pronouncement. Mi- Piyor, the employees' representative. also expretiesd his satisfaction. Jin thought the employers would do their duty, and hoped that the. award wjuld result in the settling of industrial miuwt and the woollen mills trouble. AI'i'EAL C'OUKT DECIDES TWO CASES. Wellington.. Thi« Day. Judgment was delivered in the Court i;f App.-ol m the Own ease (reserved;

of ili x V. JOlizabetli Uussell. The ! Conn held i'ial though ii limy have been th.' intention of prisoner to get ri;l t>i the custody of the child, and not be cal.ed upon to pay the Charitable Aii 1 Board, that doe.s not, in this case, prove abandonment within :.ite weaning 01 the A«t. The Court ordered, the conviction to be quashed. In iiie Crown aise (reserved) oi Rex e. AcLinii and Carr, in which the jury brought in a- verdict ol "guilty witli 110 criminal intent, as the act was committed while under the influence of temporary insanity," the Court held that tiie meaning of the verdict was not tree i'roni doubt, and ordered a new trial at- kilo nest criminal sittings of the Supreme Court in Wellington. MADAME MELBA. Auckland, This l>ay. Madame Melba is a passenger by the -Niagara for Sydney. According to American papers she was intensely indignant owing to an importer passing as her son in Carson C't.y. Nevada. Madame Melba, owing to the new.-, of the death of her father and uncle, was distressed and was not interviewed. Her son George Armstrong, discounts the story of the imposter in America, which Madame Melba saw in on American paper, andi communicated it. to the Chief of Police, who replied that he had heard nothing of tlie individual in question.