GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SHEARERS' UNION. ■ ' Wellington, March 5. The ballot for the election of officebearers ol' the Shearers' Union was decided last The officers elected were:—President, Mr. „A. J. King;' committee, Messrs. Boone, Adiir,' Cook, W. Johnston and Groyndler. Mr< C. R. Johnston's proposal to a calga- ' mate with the Farm Laborers' Union was carried by 371 votes. The proposal to increase the price of the ticket was lost by 388 votes. The proposal to join the United Federation of Labor was! lost by 165 votes. AN EXPENSIVE SHOT, > Gisbornc, March 5 Several months ago a married woman named Jean Parsons,' of Ratutaili, was struck by a bullet from a pea-rifle, the affair being quite accidental. To-day the Court awarded her £6O damages. COMPENSATION CASE SETTLED. Dunedin, Mai eh 5. The case Donovan v. the King, which was to have been heard in the Suprame Court this month, has been settled fot, £IOSO. It was a claim for £ISOO dimages arising out of a .collision between two railway engines in Dunedin, as the result of which plaintiff's lrasband, a fireman, was killed.

MEAT FREEZING INDUSTRY, By Telegraph.—Per Press Association Auckland, Last Night. Slaughtering operations will be resumed "at the Southdown works of the Auckland' Farmers' Freezing Company, on Tuesday, and during next week two whole days and two half-days will be worked. All the men engaged in the slaughtering operations were paid offi when work was suspended on Thursday; They will be taken on again on Tues- V day morning, and paid off again on Friday. . In the four days about 8000 head of stock will be dealt with, and the space in the storage relieved by the loading of the Matatua will again befilled. Operations will then have to 'fee suspended until the arrival of the Rotorua, which is due at Auckland on March 115 th.