DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

-.vrtt.s;si-a 1 <• SUPERANNUATED CIVIL'^ fly-Telegraph.—Press Association. i Wellington, Aug. 117, In reply to the recent statement of tfej Mayor of Auckland, that the ' superannuated men in the public service should foe considered toy the GcrvenmianUi' now that returned soldiers are available - for filling vacancies, Hon. G. W. Russell .-i states that the matter was referred to J the Public Service Commissioner, who had reported that everyone superamm- Slated in the civil service was employed la 1 Auckland- Only twelve, including one t woman, 'had been retained throughout tW j Dominion. At least eight of these were '~4 regarded as experts, whose servioea were valuable at present. In the cia:inn» ) stances he regretted he coull not giW j effect to the suggestion of- the AuoVlaniJ I Mkyor. : EETUEOTM} HOSPITAL SHIP. , Welling on, Aug. 17 '• A message has been received (by th&< Defence Minister that a hospital stdpurat 1 ■* its way to the Dominion- rauohed'&'iptaifc 1 of call, all well. vi OHARGE OF ATTmCPTBD-MCKDmi J

Dargaville, Aug. <ll. Kani Tehau, who murderously as-, daulted Victoria Green in the early ' of July 30, was to-diiy committed tat trial cn charges of attempted murder and breaking into a dwelling with intent- to commit a crime- Lengthy evidence given, and accused: reserved his defence. The assaulted' woman has made a good' recovery, as has also prisoner, vrho- es j verely injured himself after the aßsSirilt. BREACH OP'WAR REGULATIONS. Wanganui, August 17. Julius Borth, a native of BoJfeinfia, _ was fined £2O by the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, for a breadi of the war regulations covering work «n the wharves. Borth was naturalised |n Australia, but not in the Dominion, aAd therefore was deemed to be unnatnralised. After the regulations were gazetted he applied for a permit to work on tie wharf, but was refused. He was employed later by Horseley and Harris, merchants, as a carrier, and went to the wharf shed for goods. Counsel contended that the wharf shed did not come within tlie meaning of the War Regulations. This view was not taken by tlie magistrate, who imposed a conviction. Alfred Harris, a member of tho Ann, was charged with procuring Borth to* • work on the wharf, but the information was dismissed. .