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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Pel' I'reM Association. i.tifs Dunedin, Wednesday, ' '-&■ At the I'olTce Court John Mowatt up- . puarvd in dock wearing the uniform of ■ the (J Company of Volunteer liifles to answer a charge of having done wilful 1 damage to the d (r -f William Martin and ot having broken !he dwelling of Isabella Martin with iuiux.. nnoy her. Sub-Inspector Norwood, in asking for a remand, said accused and another comrade, also a volunteer, had followed "' l i two young women down Castle street -,f about 11 o'clock last night. After the girls had gone into the house the men f' knocked at the door, and on the mdthtf . telling them to go away, they had tbnijit ' ' their bayonets through the door, while one had threatened to put hi* bayonet' into Mrs Martin. A constable arrested accused, who gave his companion's name. The Magistrate, in remanding .tjie cage to enable the other man to be found, spoke of the offence as Very' >< ■'wJtfjfl Ufa lhe Conciliation Board to-day filed lis reeomincndation in the dispute between the Otago and Southland Musterers" Union and the Otago and Southland sheep-owners. The principal recommendatious are:—Leading shepherds where two or more shepherds are kept shall be paid not less than £BS per annum* ordinary shepherds of all longwool or merino flocks not less than £7O «er annum. When musterers are engaged to muster sheep they shall not be paid leas than 10s per day and no time a MI be taken off for wet weather or o&er cause over which men hare no control. v Musterers shall, where practicable, bo supplied with good, dry sleeping accommodation on the hills. The sheepowners' Association is dissatisfied with the recommendations of the Board, and has decided to take the case to the Arbitration Court. » Gisborne, Last Night.' Hie thermometer registered up to 99 degrees in the shade to-day, 8 degrees higher than ever previously, experienced here. On Monday the maximum regie- ■■ ter was 01. Only on four previous oa« • casions has fhtvt heat been registered Id Gisborne. >

Wellington, Wednesday. To-day a man named Frederick Cooper was committed for trial on two charing of breaking aii! entering private residences. In one of the caseß It wag stated that a cash-box which had been taken out of the house and left in the coal-shed had finger-prints upon 1 it. These prints, it was stated in evidence were identical with the left thumb-print of accused. *