WITHIN THE DOMINION

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 184, 13 April 1915, Page 5

WITHIN THE DOMINION

RAILWAY ACCIDENT MAN SUCCUMBS. - Press Association —Copyright DANNEVIBKE, This Day. . William Ernest Prince, farmer, of Makotuku, who was knocked down by a locomotive at Dannevirke on March 20th, died to-day at the hospital. An inquest is being held. A SWAGGER SUICIDES. BY CUTTING HIS THROAT. DANNEVIRKE, This Day. A swagger, whose identity is not certain, tut who is supposed to be a man known as Fred MeLaughlan, committed suicide on Sunday by cutting his throat with a razor, underneath the Mangotoro bridge. THE RIV2RINA DAMAGED, STRIKES QUEEN ST. WHARF. AUCKLAND, This Day. The Riverina when berthing at the Queen Street wharf last evening collided heavily with a concrete pier. Her stern was badly bent about six fee* above water line, and the lip of one of the bow plates on the port side was torn from its rivets. The Riverina struck, bow on, the protecting piles, which were splintered and smashed for 30 feet on each side. The bow eventually hit the solid ferro-concrete portion and the wharf decking was cracked to a length of about 18 Inches. The dam-, age will not prevent her departure for Sydney at noon to-day. • EXPLOITATION PROTESTS. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES’ EESOLTTTIONS. >, ~ > ; ' ■’ CARTERTON, This Day. At last meeting of the Cross Cre«k branch of the Railway Engineers, Firemen and Cleaners’ Association, it was resolved to call the attention of the Government to the unreasonable charges being made for the necessaries ■of life, and the meeting considered the matianal crisis was being used by merchants and-others for private enrichment) they also deplored the inactivity of the Government in allowing exploitation, and called upon the Government to use legislative means to fix a maximum price of necessaries of life, an® prevent this country being further exploited. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. HANNAN CHALLENGES WEBB. THE DEPOSIT COVERED. WANGANUI, Thi s Day. Previous negotiations having fallen through, Hannan has issujed another challenge to Webb for a match for £2OO aside and the sculling champion, ship of New Zealand and he has lodged £IOO as a deposit. He suggests that the race he rowjed on June 3rd. Webb’s hackers covered the deposit hut intimated that_Webb cannot row before September. FEROCIOUS ATTACK ON A WIFE. MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. it;'; This Day. About one o ’clock this morning a carter named J. J. Sayer, residing in Bath Street, Parnell, attacked his wife and child with an axe, inflicting serious injuries on the former. He then committed suicide by taking poison. Sayers, his wife, and girl of eight years, slept in the same room. Sayers, it appears, got an axe from the yard and made a ferocious attack on his wife on her head and shoulders. Either before or after, Sayers evidently attacked his daughter, as she has a large bruise On her head. Sayers finally drank some strong corrosive poison and lay down on the bed beside his unconscious wife. The police were summoned by neighbours and found Sayers just dying. Mrs. Sayers was unconscious and bleeding terribly, but probably her injuries will not prove fatal. So far there is nothing to suggest a motive for the crime. AUCKLAND, Later. John Sayers, who attempted to murder his wife at Parnell, and subscuently committed suicide, went to work yesterday morning and returned home during the day. He stated he had been kicked by a horse, but ho showed signs of having had some of bottles of beer anor half an’"empty bottle were found in his bedroom. A married daughter who lived in the same house states that Sayers, whenever he had been drinking, threatened to murder the family. On one occasion he attacked his wife with a file. The inmates of the house were awakened by heavy thuds. The mar Tied daughter, on entering the bedroom occupied by Sayers and his wife and child, found Sayers scantily attirea, lying on the bed unconscious; his wife was lying in a pool of blood, with her head terribly battered. The little girl evidently received one blow on her head from a blunt part of the axe and was not very seriously injured.

REFRIGERATED SPACE. April VL. The Prilfe® Minister bed a conference to-day With> shipping agentg with a view of ascertaining the possibilities of Increasing refrigerating space available for perishable produce to be exported in the next few months. Pour Home liners have been despatched with mixed cargoes during the last few days, and five more are on the list to sail this month. TRADE WITH JAPAN. WELLINGTON, April 12. The Japanese Tradje Commissioners met the Wellington Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. Dr Muira, addressing the members at some length, explained on the lines of recent addresses the kinds of produce acceptable to the Japanese, and the goods which Japan can export. He believed that New Zealand meat could be put on the market in , Japan at a price enabln4g the people to adopt it as a popular food. ‘' VOLCANIC OUTBURST. OLD GRATER REACTIVE. UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. , ROTORUA, This Day, It appears that a party of nine visitors had the uxique experience of witnessing an unusual outburst. Standing on the tep of a h'lll overlooking an old crater the guide was explaining its former activities when a rumbling noise was heard, followed by the sound of a muffled yet terrific report. A few second* later, with another terrific report, a whole mass was hurled in air; rocks weighing in some eases as. much as five toMs being sent 300 and ,400 feet high, utter material rising in a nervy dark brown ms«r to a height of 700 feet, dissipating in < white - vapour, which rose another 300 fpet. * A WORKMAN KILLED. BY A FALL OF EARTH, WANGANUI, This Day. Amah named Sykes, aged 80, single;, was killed at Koromiti yesterday aftfej'noon by. a fell of A earth while working in a cutting. CHINESE GAMBLING DENS. SUCCESSFUL POLICE RAID, WELLINGTON, This Day. As the sequel to a police raid on premises in Homing Street, last night, four Chinese werje charged today with breaches of the Gaming Act and remanded on bail of £SO each. Ten Europeans found on the premises plead'ed guilty to charges of being found In a common gaming house and fined £3 each, BANKING RETURNS. WELLINGTON, April 12. The following are the chief items in life returns of the six banks during business in this Daminion.for the quarter ended March 31st. £

I SUPREME COURT. THE ELECTION PETITIONS. ’ ARGUMENT PROCEEDING. ■ ■ ■■■■i ii.ni ■ • WELLINGTON, Ths * Day. Thja full Court resumed this morning when Mr Skerrett, K.C., continued hie argument in support of the contention that the roll is conclusive. He preceded (to putl If is on Clause 44 of the Legislative Act, 1908, dealing with the absence of a voter from the district The question as raised by lection 44, he argued, was ■ not before the Court, neither had the question been raised by section 196 of the same Act anything to do with that raised by section 44. The latter was a separate and independent provision dealing with the exclusion of a person from the roll. Section 44 deals with the removal of a voter from a district, not with the original qualifications. In the Hawke’s Bay case this was most important because many of the persons objected to were persons put on the roll by the Registrar and had the requisite qualification, but unless the roll was conclusive they would have no right to vote in that district. He asked the Court to observe that the language of section 44 was precisely similar to that of section 18 of the Electoral Act, 1893, when the conclusive nature of the roll was beyond all doubt. Further, his friend had not quoted any authority to show that the Election Courthad any right to disallow the votes of persons put on the roll by the Registrar.

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