DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1914, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

THE YOUNG APPEAL CASE. ’Wellington, January 30. The Chief Justice to-day is hearing argument in an appeal from the decision of Mr Riddell, S.M.. in the case of IV. T. Young, president of the Federation of Labor, who was sentence; 1 to three month’s -imprisonment and ordered to find £7OO sureties to keen the peace for twelve months for inciting persons to commit a breach of the peace .ajul.of inciting persons to •rfestst ■'eonsttriiles AvgumoTi t oprxicersl on the same Hues as in the lower Court on the construction of tire wording of the Statute under which the charges were- brought.

WANGANUI COURT

Wanganui'. January 30

A Maori man charged with stealing n bicycle pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one month at the Magistrate’s Court to-day.

Jas. H. Nieholls was charged with forging a (Toennient having reference to the proposed purchase of a certain carrying business at Mart on. The ease is proceeding.

FORGERY AND AN INQUEST,

Wellington, January .‘ID

Harry Henderson was commit-: ted for sentence on a charge of forging the name of G. Henry to a cheque for £0 10s 6d. Henry was » remittance. -iinnn, and on the same day as Henderson was arrested. Henry was taken to the.liosuital sulfering from a fractured skull. It is unknown how the injury was received, but it resulted fatally. The Coroner’s inquest is not yet concluued.

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.

Wellington, January JO

At the fpiiual meeting of the New Zealand Institute Board of Governors which is being hold to-day, feeling reference was made to the death of Mr Hamilton, director of the Dominion Museum, and to the valuable work he had done in the cause ol science. The president’s address reviewed* the transactions of the Institute during the past twelve months. Regarding Antarctic exploration work lie "stated that if expeditions meet as they hoped to meet with the success they deserve, Antarctic would soon be one of the best scientifically explored portions of tbc earth, and New Zealand problems connected therewith would bo within measurable reach ol satisfactory solution.