DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1917, Page 7

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

f FINED FOR SEDITION. Telegraph.—Press .Association. ( Greymouth, March 13. Maurice Fitzgerald, hotelkeeper, was to-day convicted and fined £25 and £lO costs on. a charge of sedition and disloyal statements in a hotel bar parlor. Mr. Hutchison, S.M., giving judgment, considered the case serious, although not comparable to the noted cases in the Dominion where imprisonment was ordered. In fixing the penalty he bore in mind that a conviction might possibly involve other consequences for defend"ant.

CHARGE OF INSUBORDINATION. Wellington, March 13. Privates A. R. Hill, S. A. Smart, A. V Waller, C. H. Keavey and J. Brown, five members of the 2,'ird' are being tried by court-martial to-day on charges' of insubordination, in that while under military detention they refused to work when ordered. The'men formally pleaded r.ot guilty, but admitted that they declined to work unless they received more food. The hearing is proceeding. WATERSIDER PUNISHED Auckland, March 13. Tn the Police Court, Mr. E. C. Cutt.cn, S.M., sentenced Oliver Noakes, a watersider. to 11 months' imprisonment for a breach of the additional War Regulations by publishing utterances intended to interfere with the proper unloading of the steamer Wcstralia. The Magistrate found that there was an understanding on the part of a section of the watersiders not (,o engage for work before 8 a.m., whereas "the award time was 7.30, and that when an ex-president of the union broke the understanding by engaging before S a.m.. the defendant made a remark to him which the Magistrate considered to be | a threat. The Magistrate held that the ■remark was intended to delay his engagement until 8 a.m., and consequently to delay the unloading of the vessel.