LATE TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAMS.

; '! ARBITRATION COURT KINKS ti . 3 (By Telegraph.— I'ress Association.) c , WELLINGTON, this day. a 1 At a sitting of the Arbitration Court U to-day, the Levin Meat Company, loi b ■ breach of the prefence clause oi an aware s was fined £5. G. lie well, for paying lcs.----0 than the raters stipulated in the drivers -award, \va s lined £5; and Toohey, the ejman so r-mployed. ten shillings. H. Kiel r ■ de r and Co. were fined £2 ior employing n; a man at Jess than the minimum wage '■• "and a similar fin,' was imposed on the c j Wellington Woodware Company for cm ' i ploying an unindpntured lad. \\ a ;JJay and C. J. Johnston were each fined ■• ■ .i) 2 for employing non-unionists. r j ATTEMPTED SCICIDE. YVELLIXGTOX, this day. 3 i . s Frederick Tucker, a young man, who = , attempted to commit suicide by jumping '! into the harbour, was charged in the ~ ] Court to-day, lie said he had been in "trouble for 18 months, and had been driven to despair by a new disappointment. He was convicted and dir-eharned. ' WAIHI rTEMS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent., H WAIHI. this day. ' I Dr. Valentine. Inspector-General oi -j Hospitals arrived to-day. The raavo,- rejUeived a telegram froai the Prime'Minisjter stating that the second' hundred I pounds promised towards the Waibi Beach road is now available if it is anplied for. ' ' j FIRE AT COROMANDEL. l\ ("OROMAXDEL. this day. g| The residence of Mr. Samuel Carlvor s jWaa destroyed by lire at 2 o'clock this 'morning. The fire originated in the vicinfc ; ltv of the kitchen. A piano and sonif . ; other furniture were saved. The housf furniture were insured for £200 a i with the New Zealand Insurance Com i pany. '.! FIRE AT NELSON. i! j XELSOX, this day. By a fire which occurred on Saturday evening at M.r- W. O'Cflnjior's premises 1 at Appleby, Messrs. O'Connor and Cook . ; and Satherley. thresher owners, will be t - heavy losers, in all £400. 3 ASHBURTOX, this day. 3 A* an inquest held on .Sunday touoh- » ing thp deiiiiie of Denis Coakley, who . was found dead at his home at Ashburf ton. Forks on Saturday, the ;ury re- , turned a verdict that death was caused 3 by heart-failure. Mr. Dnvicl Lusk, well-known in the dis- » trict as clerk of works for many iml portant public buildings here, died sud..'denly on Saturday night, h> the result ,of bursting a blood-vcsael. Jlr. l.uok was ; l.man'icd onh - .on Wednesday fist. A letter rnelosing postal notes has I; been st-nt to Mrs. Cole, president of (he i Xew Zealand I'nion Convention, now 3 being held in Auckland, as follows: "Dear - ; Madam.—As a sympathiser who is im- ) i able.to do any active service in the cause. -1 or to assist as generously as she would, iI I beg to enclose postal notes for 30J 1 I (thirty shillings), made up as follows: ■ Ticket for Clnrn Butt's concert (not pur- -! chafed i 10,'. assistance to save the boys. ; lour ol whom I saw entering oar principal local hotel (one of them still in !, knickerbockers), at 5/ per youth, £]. .I J am ;orry I cannot make it £?,fi instead i, of 30/. With earnest prayers for yonr -; success. I am. (Signed) "A Parent."" 1 J Sub-Inspector Gordon received a telei j gram this afternoon from Constable Cox. )j of Raw-one, stating that John Hall Galf I loway. a settler of Mn'.ukaraka, reo ! poned that his 13 year old stepson, c J Joseph Thomas Galloway, or - Forbes, f i left home on the 13th instant, and has c not since been so.en. An active search c for thu missing boy has been instituted, f but without result so far. t The Colonial Ammunition -works will ,!« closed to-morrow XSt Patrick's Day).