DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 4 July 1913, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

ATTEMPTED POISONING

[Per Press Association.] Dannevirke, July 3

Frances Emily Sabin, a young girl who attempted suicide on June 3rd by taking poison, to-day appeared liefore Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., and was ordered to come up for sentence when called on, conditional on her remaining in Story's Home, Wellington, for two years.

DAMAGES FOR ACCIDENT

Wellington, July 3

Dr. McArthur, S.M., gave his reserved judgment in the case'of Crawford v. Union Steamship Company, claim for £IOO damages for injuries sustained during discharging cargo from the Mokoia. The Court held that the accident was not due to the Company's neglect or faulty appliances but through the negligence of a fellow servant in fixing a faulty sling. The employer, therefore, was liable, and judgment would be for £SO and costs. WELLINGTON CARNIVAL. The total amount realised at the Easter Carnival in Wellington was £2,936 and there is a credit balance, after paying all expenses, of £1,832. It has been decided to make the Carnival an annual affair. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. The Friendly Societies who recently waited on the Minister requesting information as to tho intention of the Government in the matter of a subvention to the Friendly Societies, have been informed that tho Government has decided, during the coming session, to set up a committee to consider the annual report of the nead of the Friendly Societies when it is made available. The committee will have power to tako evidence and examine the Actuary who is responsible for the compilation of tho figures contained in tho report.

COURSING CONDEMNED. Dunedin, July 'J.

At a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals this afternoon, a motion was carried ay six votes to four: That in the opinion of the committee the coursing of hares in enclosures is a cruel sport, and that steps be taken to test the matter by the prosecution of those who engage in the practice. The Chairman, Mr 6! Fenwick,' remarked that the Society could take 1 action at the next coursing meeting.

ASSAULT; 6N THE WAIPORI Oreymouth', July 3

' Joseph 'CcHvan \fas charged wiLli assaulting Walter Da files and scabbing him ' with l a bread-saw on board the s.s. Waipori early yesterday. Evidence showed that the two had been drinking together. Danks alleged that he was getting into his bunk when accused came behind him and stabbed him in the back. In the scuffle Danks received three other stabs, necessitating, three stitches, in the head and three in the arm-/ Accused pleaded guilty. .He said that he was drunk and did not remember anything that occurred. He was committed; for sentonco. ~..,.:. ;■■••*

A MISAPPREHENSION. Wanganui, July 3.

With reference to the Press Association, wire stating that the Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society considered that steps should be taken against the shooters of native pigeons presented to Captain Halsey when he was at Wanganui, the Chronicle reporter interviewed Mr E. N. Liffiton, secretary of the local branch of the Society, and a senior J.P. He states that ho was present at the official visit paid to the warship and saw gifts of sheep and deer, pigeons and other game laid out on the deck of the vessel. No other presents were taken out at any other time, and so far as lie saw, there was not a native pigeon among the lot. He considered that the Wellington Council is laboring under a misapprehension. The pigeons presented were those shot at a recent meeting of the Wanganui Gun Club and wero not given by the Maoris. In common with other game they' had been kept in cold storage till the warship's arrival. Other officers of the Society interviewed, expressed amazement at the interference by the Wellington body before it had first ascertained what the position was.