NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 161, 12 March 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

ALLEG-.D BURGLAR ARRc&TED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Selwyn Hodges, aged 20, alleged to be the man concerned in the Dominion Road burglary, was arrested by the police last night ,in a private house in the district. PRISONER COMMITS SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, This Day. A prisoner, Georfge Hart, in gaol for two years’ for reformative treatment, mt his throat with a bin knife in his cell last night. — B , ... , , Ok NAPIER LIBEL CASE. ‘.j SETTLED OUT OP COURT. NAPIER, This Day. In the libel action in which Mr Vigor Brown;, M}.P* fclaimejd fjS,OC{) from the “Hawke’s Bay Herald,” in which the libel was contained in a letter published on December 9th, headed, “Politionl Hoodlums,” has' been' settled out of Court, the defendants making full and ample apology, and paying £IOO and all Mr Brown’s costs. The letter alleged that Mr Brown organised the band of hoodlums, who disturbed Mr Venable’s meetings, and suggested that he was associated with Red Feds. The apology admits that th e letter contained reflections on Mr Brown’s personal and political character, and tide paper unreservedly withdraws them. Mr Bro\?a gives the £ 100 to the hospital.

PRISONER RE-CAPTURED, i. 4 UNDER A GBOCSER’S COUNTER. t ROTORUA,. Tliis -Day. The prisoner, Alfred Robert Curtis, who escaped from the Kaingaroa prison camp on Saturday night, was Recaptured at 11 a.m. to-day, hiding under a counter in Hanson's grocer shop in Rotorua, FIBE IN A SAWMILL. TAUMABUNUI, March 11, A five broke out in Winger and Smith’s sawmill, Bangaroa. this afternoon. The fire brigade turned out with remarkable despatch, and hr great exertions saved by far the greater part of the stock of timber, which, was large. A stack of mouldings worth some £SOO was destroyed, by the sidoof the planing shed, which was burnt, bv»t no machinery was injured. There is no insurance. ILLICIT LIQUOR. . 1 TAUMABUNUI, March 11. Harry Priest was to-day fined £SO for illegally keeping liquor for sale. BREACH OP LABOUR LAWS. '*■>, AUCKLAND, March 11. The maximum penalty of £SO wa-a imposed to-day on Frank Whitehead, keeper of a restaurant in Queen St., who was found guilty of not keeping a proper overtime book. The bookkeeper who had been keeping defendant 'a books gave evidence to the effect that waitresses had been worked very long; hours, but the defendant refused tlieif applications for payment for overtime and instructed witness to fill in tho time at the rate of 52 hours per week per girl, although the time worked was considerably beyond that. The magistrate said it was the worst case of tha kind he had ever had before him.