DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 March 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association!)

Ekctahuna, March 13,

The body of R. J. McLean, wiio has been missing since Friday, was discovered at II o’clock this morning by Diver Petersen in a deep hole? in the river about 100 yards below where his overcoat was previously found.

Mr Caddie gave an address at Niroaha last night on the separation of whey for butter-making. At the conclusion the shareholders at the meeting decided to instal the necessary plant; ■ •

Napier, March 13. The plaintiff in the libel suit Simso ■ v. “Tribune,” in which a farthing damages was' awarded, is moving for a. new trial on the grounds (1) that the verdict was defective, the jury having found for plaintiff on the main issue and inconsistently on others; (2) that defendants proved only half of their plea of justification; and (3) that the verdict of the jury was -net unanimous.

Dunedin, March 13

A garden fete yesterday realised £I2OO. It is estimated that the enrplus will be over a thousand pounds, which will go to the immediate improvement of the city reserves. Auckland, March 13. 'llic Premier, interviewed on line complaints alleging distinctions shown between the Public Service and private employees in regard to Territorial training, declared emphatically that no such distinctions ( existed. AH public servants coining under the provision of the Act will conform with them. He pointed out, however, that it w;v;;: quite a- different thing in calling out at one time perhaps three or four employees of a commercial.house and the several thousand men affected in the railway service. Public utility services must not lie disorganised. The public itself would not stand the inconvenience arising from the dislo-

ation of departments by the calling out at one time of a large body of servants.

Palmerston, March 13,

The Stagpoole case, an appeal by a teacher against dismissal by the Wanganui Education Board, was resumed co-day, when appellant’s case was continued. A great deal of evidence has still to he taken and the case is ex•petted to last over a week. Dunedin, March 13. The Drainage Board decided to advance its labourers’ wages bv -sixpence, making a minimum of 8s 6d per day, equal to an annual expenditure of £2300. Wanganui, March 12. The Maroro and Albxa, both threemaster vessels,; j have had an interesting race to Sydney and back. They left here within a few hours of each other, and both reached port again on the same tide this afternoon. The three-masted schooner Maroro arrived ■)from Sydney to-day after a voyage of 22 days. Last Sunday week, when off Capo Farewell, the Maroro was struck by ; an exceptionally heavy sea, which severely injured the mate, James Hunan.,< aged 72. Fortunately no bones were broken, but Hannan mid a narrow escape from going overboard. He is still incapacitated. Nelson, March 12. A lad named William Makison, aged 12, was at Motucka on Sunday hy being thrown from a horse. Deceased was a visitor from Westport. Blenheim, March 13. Yesterday Robert Allan, market gardener, 69, was getting into his trap when the horse started. He was thrown out on his head. Ho was taken to the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain. He died this morning. He had been fifty years in the Dominion and served throughout the Maori war.