TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 28 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(Pef United Press Association,) Gisdorne, March 27. Robert Bryson, who was picked up on tho road insensible, having been thrown from his horse, died at the hospital to-day. Dunedin, March 27. ■ Margaret Porter, wife of an employe' in the Government workshops, died very suddenly this m«ruiug. She was taken ill about midnight, and her husband went for assistance, Coming back m a few minutes ho found her on the floor gasping for breath, and she died in three minutes afterward, She had been suffering from bronchitis, and death is supposed to havoresultcd from asphyxia, Nelson, March 27. A man named JolinDoyle, a circus haiid, has been arrested oh a charge of stealing a coat at Blenheim, and lemauded till Saturday. : The Sweating Commission. AdokWnd, March 27, Before the Sweating Commission to-day, Georgo Mobride, merchant, tailor and clothing manufacturer, waß i examined, He said that his scale of ' pay was higher (hah that fixed by tho tailoiesses' log. 'Hathough that the giving out of work ruined jthe trade and should be stopped by an Act of Parliament, Protection bad cheapened j production by 20 per cent, but the ( employe got the benefitby bavingmore ; constiinfcwork. TkeFactovy Act needed | an amendment in a few jjartidulnrß. ( He believed tho factory girls liked the j M'wor'se than tlieir employers did The Sanitary Inspector (G.Goldic said lie was not aware of anything ii the pondition of factories atthe preßentime calling for attention, and ho dii not know of ona that was overcrowded In the evouiug Richard .Mills, presl deufc of tliel'ailoresses'. Union, gave evidenceandsaidhecould confuted) ucL of- Moßride's testimony, Robert French was examined "as'to the early closjng' moyemeht, anddeposeil that it had met'?v}th great, success, and the night -trado in Auckland was now practically kiM» ■'■'•■

Brutal Assault CHitJSTcnußtiu, March 27. - At the. Ohristehuroh Police. Court to-day, GeorgOi.Hall Willi sentto gaol for six nionthß for committing uri assail!!: on his father, Williani Hall and Ellen Thompson. The two' complainants and the accused lived in a house- together. Tim accused, yhen -jn, drink, Jijt the woman over. tho hefldjiyith ij pie.eo. qptfjn, .citing a bad'wmwd, ma Mng her ipsensiblp. Ho B!)bseqnentjy ■■ kno'ejred bis futile); iom, the pjjf roan, breaking several ribs..