DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 38, 8 October 1912, Page 8

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

ALLEGE!* CATTLE-STEALING

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 7

In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Cuthbert William Bridge appeared to answer to a charge of the theft of cattle from various owners at Northland, fifteen head in all. Bridge was a railway employee, but is now a farmer, and it is alleged that he came to Wellington and drove the cattle in (jiiestion off Tinakori Hills, subsequently trucking them from the Upper Huti to Solway, about one and a, half miles from Masterton. (At this station the cattle were shunted off on to a siding, hut as there was no one to accept delivery of them they were left there. Before 5 o’clock next morning the cattle had been taken out of the trucks, and there was as far as is known, no one who saw their removal. Chief Detective Broberg asked for a remand until, next Wednesday. This was granted, bail being allowed in two sureties of £do each.

AN ASSAULT IN THE TRAIN

Dunedin, October 7

In the Police Court to-day, Frank Crumlish was charged that on October I, on the Main Trunk express between Auckland and Wellington, he assaulted Victor Smith. The evidence wan that four seamen left Auckland on Thursday night under engagement to loin the barque Titania at Dunedin. At Waiouru another man joined the train with a bottle of whisky. A quarrel eventually took place, and it was contended that Crumlish and Smith had a scuffle, in the course of which fhe former bit Smith’s car. Accused admitted the facts, with the exception of the biting, which ho denied. Accused was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

DISSATISFACTION IN THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Dunedin, October 7

A large and enthusiastic meeting of railway officers was hold to-night to near a report by the delegates who recently waited on the Minister of Railwave with regard to the carrying out of the findings of the Railway Parliamentary Committee, which reported favourably on the petition of railway officers presented to Parliament last yeas. A resolution was carried unanimously deploring the action of the Government in refusing to give full affect to the recommendations of the Railway Committee, and regarding such action as a distinct breach of faith, inasmuch as members of the Go-

vcrnment and of the Reform Party generally gave a definite, assurance that ,t!ie. recommendations would lie carried put in, their ; entirety also deploring that while the Government was granting concessions in various directions costing many thousands per annum, the claims of the railway officers were being ignored. Another resolution endorsed the action of the executive g-ere so much below the finding of the Railway Committee and of the fcale of salaries ini the Public Service Act for. other branches of the Government service, that they were totally inadequate, and expressed the opinion, that the dissatisfaction in the first division would be intensified by the attitude of the Minister. It was decided to urge the executive to continue to press for conditions of pay, leave, etc., equal to those in the Postal and Telegraph Department and other branches of the public service. TYPHOID AMONG FLAX HANDS. Palmerston N., October 7. Considerable uneasiness exists among llaxmill hands in this district at outbreaks of typhoid at certain flaxmills. Four cases are at present in the Palmerston hospital, one a very serious one. The Health Department is investigating. At a meeting of the Flax-workers’ Union on Saturday last resolutions bearing on the matter of better drinking supplies than arc afforded by the Manawatu and Oroua rivers were passed.