GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 14 March 1914, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

COMPENSATION" CASIO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Sight. The Arbitration Court has awarded Antonia Nicholson £4(18, af compensation for the loss of her husband, who died as the result of an injury to tha hand through running an awl into it while working as a saddler for W. K. Gundrie in Martinborough. The injury was followed by blood-poisoning. The defence declared the injury was caused while the man was tacking wood in his own backyard, but the court did not accept this view. GAOL ESCAPEE CAPTURED. Timaru, Last Night. Wilson, one of the two youths who escaped from the Timaru Gaol two nights ago, was captured at noon today at Adair, five miles from town. He was bailed up by a constable when resting on the roadside. He had obtained shoes, a revolver, and a butcher's knifv, and had some food. He was very tired, and refused to talk.. His mate ia supposed to have gone further south, as it is reported that several places had been broken into about Otaio. When first arrested, both admitted that it was tbey who tried to steal a motor-launch from Timaru harbor some time ago. They intended to go to Auckland in her, but could not manage the engine.