TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8140, 2 June 1906, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

+ (Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, June 1. At a meeting of the Waipau (Poverty Bay i licensing bench yesterday the police reported that a number of country hotels were unsatisfactory. Improvements in the character of the accommodation being called for in a number of cases, the Bench adjourned consideration till the 29th inst. INVERCARGILL, June 1. At this date last year 150,000 sacks of oats had been handled by the district railways. This year only 40,000 have come to hand as yet and about ten per cent are rejecting. In the Supreme Court to-day an action of interest to property owners was heard. Last year a youth named Aekes, an apprentice to an engineer, was passing along a street carrying a circular saw, when the hanging door of a warehouse came off the overhead rail and fell upon him. Although the door weighed five hundredweight he was not apparently very seriously injured, and was discharged from the hospital after a short stay. He has not, however, been able to work since, and medical men suspect tuberculosis. The store is owned t>y J. E. Watson and Company, who have sublet the back portion to Raymond and Co. Both were sued for #600 damages, but counsel for plaintiff admitted no cpse against Watson. The door was being opei'ated at the time by Raymond's men for his use. The evidence indicated that the dislocation of the door was due to dire accumulating on the sill and freeing the shelves from the rail. The jury found for plaintiff £ 250. Mr Justice Denniston reserved the law point as to Raymond's liability, he not being the owner of the building or responsible for its fittings. INVERCARGILL. This day. Between Riverton and Otaiitau. a sum of £120, the men's wages, was extracted from a locker in the guard's van on the train on Friday evening. The police have a clue and an arrest is probable.