LATE TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 170, 17 July 1908, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

d c £By Telegraph.—Press Assoclntion.) * J A FALL OF EARTH. 8 j DUNEDLN T , this day. fi John McLean, belonging to the- }■•,':]- ---' ' ways Maintenance Deji:>rtT. e nt, had his , j leg broken at the Mosgiel duplication , 5 ] works this morning by a fall of earth. j ] SLY GROG-SELLING. ASHBURTON, this day. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr V. G. Day, S.M., Thomas ; Crowe was charged with receiving orders j for liquor in the no-Lcense district of ■ Ashburton from Thomas Holmes and , from Harold Toomer, and with selling ] t J liquor.in a N.o-license district to Thnm;is j ' j Holmes. On the fir=t count he was con- | victed and discharged; on the second he I was fined £2 and costs; and on the third I fined £20 and costs. ENGINEERS' DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, this day. I The Conciliation Board's recommenda--1 tions in the engineers' -dispute provide that no journeymen shall receive less than 1/5 per hour, apprentices shall serve five years, and one may be employed to . J every three journeymen. The rccoinr mendatione shall have no application to , existing contracts. ALLEGED FORGERY OF KECEIPT. • ASHBUKTON, this day. Leonard Sutherland, of Winslow, wae chaTged with "forging the name of Barney . j Kenney in a receipt in a railway delivery ' , I book for a case of whisky which h« j j thereby received. Accused pleaded nos j, guilty, and after evidence for the prose-:, cution had been heard decided to re- j, i serve his defence, and was committed for j ■ trial at the Supreme Court at Timaru on j . August 7th. Bail was allowed. j TAIHAPE, this day. j' A young man named Myars -was lost |, in the bush near Raetihi. He fired a!. gun to attract attention, but the gun, { buret and stunned him. He was even- j, 1 tually found by a search party. i