DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

THE MISSING LAUNCH. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, August ID. Pears for tho safety of tlie launch reported as missing from Coromandel are practically confirmed, as the wreckage came ashore has been recognised by the nephew of tiro man Peddle as being part of the missing vessel. When the launch left Whangapoua Harbor there was’ a strong easterly wind blowing. Mr.S. W. PPeddle was well known in the Hawke’s Bay district, where he was engaged for many years in sheep farming and sawmilling. He was a bachelor with two brothers and three sisters. His companion, Mr W illiam Brown, was :x married man with a wife and two children in Glasgow, Scotland. AN ASSAULT CASE. Dunedin, August ID. In the Supreme Court to-day, a easej in which William John Townley claimed £5Ol damages from Jas. Joseph Nyhon, for an alleged assault, was cone hided. The parties resided on I the Peninsula, and had been bad friends for some years, and it was alleged that defendant severely assaulted plaintiff on a lonely part of the road. The defence was that the plaintiff assaulted the defendant, who did not use unnecessary violence in defending himself, i The jury found for plaintiff, awarding him £2OO.

A ROUGH SEA VOYAGE. Timam, August 19. The Union steamer Karori arrived this morning from Melbourne. The trip occupied nine days seventeen hours. She experienced had weather all the way to the Bluff. Water was never off the decks. One lifeboat was damaged and several items of minor damage were done about the decks. WESTPORT-REEFTOX LINE. Westport, August 19. At a meeting of the Westport Chamber of Commerce to-night, a strong protest was voiced against the action of the Government in the matter of tardy work of constructing the Westport-Reefton railway, and a committee was'set up to draft a letter to the Government setting out the amount expended and lying Idle on the line, and the mineral and timber potentialities of the district that would In* served by the line. 1 • W Was stated that the line had suffered in consequence of people judging it from an agricultural and pastoral and not a mineral point of view, and that the Westport-Mokihinui line, had it been similarly judged, would never have been constructed at all, but it was one of two of the best paying lines in the Donjinipri. "J 'V the new Zealand ball

FOOTING THE BIEL. Wellington, August 19. At the Magistrate’s Cohrt to-day, before Or. McArthur, S.M., Miss Roselind Prehhle, florist, sued Mrs Janet Williams for the sum of £64 for floral decorations carried out by plaintiff in connection with the citizens’ ball given in honor of the visit ol M.M.S. New Zealand to Wellington. Plaintiff .said she was instructed by M.rs Williams to carry out the work, and no objection was made to the price she quoted, £64. A suggestion was made later that the price should be reduced to £56 if the ball was not a success, but she did not agree. After hearing evidence, His Worship ordered that the sum of £55, which had been paid into Court by the defendant, should be handed over to the plaintiff, and adjourned the further hearing si ie die. When the case is called again, the evidence of the defendant, who is at present in Christchurch, will be heal’d.