DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 29 May 1912, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 28. 'l'. C. Parker, an employee of the Post -ami Telegraph Department, while working on a telephone Dole, touched a live wire and fell to the ground, breaking his arm. He died in the hospital from shock soon after admission. Timaru, May 28. 31 r Craigie, M.P., has received word that tender;; from lour builders have been accepted by the Labour Department for the erection of ten workmen's cottages at Timaru on land purchased for the purpose.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, John Win. Sadler, who has been a licensed carrier for twelve months, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on numerous charges of fraud on ,). Radcliffe, cabinetmaker, by forging receipts for railway charges paid for Radcliffe, and obtaining larger sums than he had actually paid on Hadeliffe's behalf. The necessary forms, it was supposed, be had stolen when the clerks' backs were turned. Pail in £2OO was allowed. Napier, May 29. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to protest against the movement to divert the Napier-Wellington express from the Manawatu route back to the Wairarapa. In the course of the discussion, it was pointed out that while Napier people had been agitating for the "speeding up" of trains with a. view to cutting down the time occu-

pied on the journey between Napier and Wellington, the proposed diversion would mean extending the time from !) hours !?2 minutes to 10 hours 50 minutes. A deputation was appointed to interview Mr Myers tomorrow v and emphatically protest against the proposal. Palmerston, May 20. A terrifying experience befel a Longburn settler and his wife yesterday afternoon. Potato picking was in progress in a field and they were preparing to return home with their pony cart owing to the approach of a thunderstorm. The pony had just been harnessed and the woman 'had taken the reins when a vivid flash of lighfning occurred. The pony reared up and fell dead while both the man ami his wife were temporarily blinded. On recovering their sight after a lapse of about 15 minutes they found that (he pony 'had received a shock in the ♦■yes, which were destroyed.