NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8992, 29 November 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

WELCOME RAIN. [ MY TELTCGIIAVH PRESS ASSOCIATION'. | NAPIER, November 28. The rain which has fallen in southern Hawke's Bay is very welcome. YOUTH FOUND SHOT. WAIPAWA, November 28. Denis Steven, aged 17 years, was found shot in a paddock at Kaikora, There is no evidence to show how the accident occurred. THE ECHO OF A CRIME. DUNEDIN, November 28. Allan Garth M'Gregor, who was found not guilty, on the ground of insanity, on a charge of shooting Mr W. E. Sargood, and was ordered to be imprisoned in gaol during the Colonial Secretary's pleasure, was released this morning. M'Gregor was employed at Sargood's boot factory at the time of the shooting—two years ago. FLAX MERCHANT'S BANKRUPTCY. AUCKLAND, November 28. Henry Johnston, flax merchant, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His debts amount to £4,124 19s 3d, the creditors all being unsecured. The assets are estimated at £lO5 15s 4d. THE "NIGHTCAPS DISASTER. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. INVERCARGILL, November 28. John Lloyd, manager of the Nightcaps mine, was charged, to-day, "that an the 21st day of June, 1907, he committed manslaughter by culpably causing the death of William Duncan,. William Short Carson and Patrick Welsh, being an indictable offence.'" The Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, reviewed the evidence already covered in the previous proceedings, and called witnesses jfho»e depositions were fubstantially the same as those already given. The case is unfinished. COSTLY INJURIES. A WORKER AWARDED £BIB. AUCKLAND, November 28. The hearing of the action brought by John Edward Hardiman, a sawmill hand, against John Frederick Smith, sawmill proprietor at Whangape, for £I,OOO damages for injuries received during the course of his employment, was concluded at the Supreme Court, this afternoon, plaintiff securing a verdict for £BIB. AN ABSCONDING FATHER. NEGLECTED CHILDREN. DANNEVIRKE, November 28. To-day, before the stipendiary magistrate, the police made application to have six children of J. R. Johnstone committed to an industrial school. The chi'dren are five boys and a girl. The fa hiv r.eg'ec'e.l lhe.n for some time, and recently absconded from a maintenance order. WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT. WELLINGTON, November 28. At the Supreme Court, to-day, a married woman, named Annie Whitaker, and a young man named William Burford, were charged with having conspired to procure abortion in the case of a young unmarried woman named Mary Bond. Mr Wilford appeared for Annie Whitaker, and asked that the ac:used persons should be tried separately. After some argument this was granted. The woman was found not guilty. Burford will come up for trial on Saturday. INSPECTORS OF STOCK APPOINTED. WELLINGTON, November 28. The following inspectors of stock have been appointed:—Alexander MacPherson, William Robert Brown, John Gilmour Parker, and Frederick William tilair.