DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 14, 15 January 1913, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

ARRESTED FOR FORGERY

(Ter Press Association.)

Invercargill, January 14

H. J. Richards was arrested on board the steamer Maunganui at the Bluff, on Monday, charged with forging a cheque for £5 on a firm of solicitors at Martinborough. At the court to-day Richards was remanded to appear at Martinborough on the 22nd hist.

HEAT IN TIMARU

Timaru, January 14

The hottest day of the season was experienced to-day, caused by a nor’west wind, half a gale at times. Ninety degrees was recorded in the Post Office, with 95 in the shade outdoors. Much vegetation was withered and scorched. Two or three grass fires are reported, but no damage was done. One was in the back yard of a big drapery shop, and another threatened the railway bridge at Washdyke. Men were railed out, but the fire had been extinguished when they arrived.

TRANSIT IN TIMARU

Timaru, January 14

After much discussion in the press of various moans of supplying the great need for facilities for getting about town—tramways, trackless trams, and motoj--buses—the Borough Council to-night, after a debate at a special meeting, resolved, by 10 to 2, to ask the ratepayers to sanction a loan for £6OOO to instal motor-buses. The cost of trams was estimated at £IOO,OOO, of trackless trams at £65,000, including buying out the present electz-ic works, which would be useless if cheaper power were available from Lake Coleridge.

THE WAIHI STRIKE,

Auckland, January 14

There was a painful scene at Auckland railway station yesterday after-

noon when several Waihi miners, who had attended the funeral of William Sullivan, were jeered at by a number of Federationists and called scabs and mongrels. The Federationists had assembled for the purpose of seeing off a comrade named Harvey. The latter not putting in an appearance, they allowed their feelings to get the upper hand. Messrs Parry, McLennan, and Canham, the Federation loaders, were on the platform, but took no part in the demonstration.

TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES

Dunedin, January 14

The hearing of the appeal by George Lamborn, gripman, against his dismissal from the services of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram Company, was concluded this afternoon. The Magistrate (Mr Widdowson), in giving his decision on behalf of the Board, said that a preliminary point was raised by Mr Stephens, that the appeal did not lie, as a week’s notice had been given. The Board held that section G of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, gave the right of appeal in all cases. It came to the conclusion that the appellant’s dismissal from the service was too severe, and that it should be set aside. The determination of the Board was;—First, that the appellant’s dismissal being too severe it must be set aside; that in lieu thereof appellant be suspended for two months, from 27th November, 1912, and that appellant be Reinstated in the service of the company as spare gripman on 27th January.