GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 187, 29 July 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BOY BURGLARS BIRCHED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. Two lads, aged 14 anil 13 years respectively, appeared at a sitting of the Juvenile Court before Mr. W. P. James, S.M., this morning, charged with breaking and entering Bcstull and Griffiths' drapery establishment and stealing 18s in cash. Both boys admitted the offence and were severely cautioned by the Bench, llis Worship said lie would not send them to gaol or to an Industrial School, but ill order that they should be punished, as lie thought they should he, he ordered them to be birched by a constable.

MARINE ACCIDENT. Wellington, Last Nijht, The steamer Putiki was <ou»(l by the Oreti to have stripped some of her propeller blades and was towed on to Astrolabe, near Farewell Spit, where an attempt was to be made to fix .tlicj spare blades. Later the Putiki steamed past Farewell Spit and signalled "all well."

A PECULIAR CASE. Auckland, Last Nigiit. A rather peculiar case was heard at the Police Court this afternoon when t'lie wife of William Wells aged 70, sued him for maintenance, die said that, her husband did not drink, and that Ilia particular vice was avarice. Every Saturday night he went home and secreted £lO, and now he hnd the enormous sum of £115,000 stowed away. She' asserted that she had seen him count the whole £115,000, which was iu notes: This the old man indignantly denied. He said lie had no shares, bank account, buildings, or real estate. The only tangible possession he had was rheumatism. Wells was represented by a Maori lady, who explained t.,6 1 ' the Magistrate that he was quite destitute. She had endeavored to obtain an old age pension for him, but through some irregularity in the application had not succeeded.- His Worship suggested that failing occult aid in finding the £115,000, both parties should apply for charitable aid, and .lie adjourn- | ed the case for a month'.

A STATEMENT DENIED. Christchurch, Last Night. In regard to the statement made by Mr. P. H. Hickcy at the Trades and Labor Councils' Conference in Wellington to the effect that miners on the West Coast were in tlie habit ot storing kegs of over 201bs of .gunpowder under their beds, and the statement made by Jlr. Foster that kegs of 2oibs of powder were stored in houses where there was a large number of children,) the secretary of the Blackball Coal Co. states Hi at as tar as the Blackball Co. •is concerned all explosives are stored at the mine mouth ill a magazine. Each 'miner takes his explosives into the mine straight from the magazine each day when he goes to work, taking the exact quantity he will require lor the day.

PREPARING FOR CONTINGENCIES. Christchurch, Last Night. In order to be prepared for contingencies, it is understood that considerable extra supplies of coal are being laid in at tlie Addington railway workshops.

BURGLARY. Christcluircli, Last Night. Watson's store at Otira was entered at the front door last night between 7 and !) o'clock, when £7 in notes and some silver were taken. The till was forced open with a poker.

EMPLOYERS' EIGHTS. Hamilton Tuesday. At n, largely-attended meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was passed, witli one dissentient:—"That this meeting places on record its disapproval of the principles established by the award of the Auckland Tramway Commission, viz., that an employer of labor lias not the same right of dismissing an employee as the latter has of quitting his employers service."

SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY. Auckland, Tuesday. Three horses liarneSsed to a van bolted in liobson street to-day. They careered to the sidewalk, where the driver, to escape decapitation by -the verandahs, jumped oft'. For thirty yards the' animals brought down fill the verandahs, and for a similar distance all the poles were . smashed. A lady who was. wheeling a perambulator just managed to turn a corner bcfcfc the verandah under which she had passed came down.