TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1037, 10 December 1912, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru, Dec. 7

Tbe district executive ot the Farmers’ Union to-day expressed great disgust at the action of the wharf workers striking for so trivial a reason as objection to two railwaymeu. It was said from what had been heard in the country there would be no difficulty in getting men to come to the town to work the boats. The members themselves, who are mostly elderly well-to-do farmers, said they would come themselves rather than see tbe Union win on such grounds as they had.

The executive decided to invite applications from farmers’ sons to work tbe port until tbe Unionists resume.

Cambridge, Dec. 8

A party of four youths went out from Cambridge driving this morning in the direction of Matamata, taking with them a Winchester rifle to shoot rabbits, and whilst stopping by the roadside for lunch one of the party, named William Boath, aged 26, a native of Dundee, Scotland, employed at Cambridge as a journeyman tailor, went to the conveyance to get the gun, which suddenly went off. The bullet passed through Boath’s throat, severing the jugular vein. He died in a few minutes.

Boath had recently been using the gun, and presumably bad left it in the vehicle loaded and cocked. The body was brought into Cambridge,