GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1917, Page 4

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

STRIKE ON SMALL VESSELS ENDEEI By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At a meeting of the members of the Wellington hranch of tie Seamen's Union concerned in the strike affecting the small vessels, it was decided that the. men should resume work to-morrow on the terms existing prior to the dispute. It is understood that the Prime Minister undertook to arrange a conference with the shipowners, and on that as« aurance the men decided to return tq duty. MASTERTON SOLICITOR'S- CASS. Wellington, Last Night. In the Appeal Court, argument in the Beard case was continued,' Mr. Von Haast dealing with the statements in the affidavits. WATERINcTMniK. Wellington, Last Night. Harrv Lake, a dairyman, charged with selling "milk containing 13 per cent, of water, was fined £2S. SKIPPER'S ■ APPEAL DISMISSED Wellington, Oct. 24. The Full Court'delivered judgment in the ease Skipper v. Gumming, an appeal against the conviction of appellant bv tlie magistrate at Rotorua und«r the War Regulations for publishing a statement likely to interfere with recruiting. The court held that the words used by appellant were a violation of the regulations, and dismissed the appeal with £ 10 costs, witnesses' expenses and disbursements. The court also decided that the Supreme Court has no power to vary or amend a sentence imposed by a magistrate, and that it could only affirm or. quash the conviction.