NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 May 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS. o EDITOR AND PUBLISHER FINED. WELLINGON, May 9. William Kraig, editor of tho "Maoriland Worker," and John Glover, publisher, were charged in Magistrate's Court to-day with inciting to a seditious strike. The charge arose out of a letter published in the "Worker," urging every worker in the meat trade to refuse to take par£"Tn'producing and distributing meat until New Zealand's wants were supplied at a reasonable rate, or, as an alternative, go slow. Pleas of guilty were entered. The charge Avas described by the Crown as a serious one. Kraig was fined £SO, and Glover £lO.

DEATH FROM INFLUENZA. WELLINGTON, May 10. A second death among the members of the crew of the Manuka occurred on Thursday night, when John Sullivan, a single man, who signed'on as fireman at Sydney, died at the quarantine station on Somes Island from the effects of influenza. No further eases of influenza have occurred on the steamer Kamata, and the vessel, after being thoroughly fumigated, was taken out to the stream yesterday, preparatory to sailing to-day for Westport.

A QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP

DUNEDIN, this dav.

The magistrate gave judgment in a ease in which a youth was charged with failing to register as a Territorial. The defence was that the youth was a statutory alien, the father having been naturalised as an American citizen. His Worship said no documents were produced in this case. He thought there had been some confusion regarding the rights of individual States in America, and those of United States citizenship. The father of the defendant was not in a position to become an American citizen because he had not resided there long enough to comply with the conditions. As the matter had been raised in a perfectly bona fide way he would simply order the defendant to pay costs.