SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 6

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Aisoclattlon.) COLLIERY TROUBLE ENDED. DUNEDIX, this day. The trouble between the miners and the proprietors of Christie's mine at Green Island has been amicably settled, the employers having agreed to employ seven oi the men opening up new ground at the mine. Other men have been placed in the Freeman's and Jubilee mines. These men will also be employed by Christie later on. A FIREMAN'S SUICIDE. WESTPORT, this day. .lohn Lenrhan. aged 35, a fireman of the Waipori. who recently signed on the vessel at Auckland, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Dp ceased Buffered from insomnia. FTRE AT POHUB. NAPIER, this day. An accommodation house at Pohue. owned and occupied by H. Bodley, together with a bakehouse, -billiard-room, and several detached buildings, -were totally destroyed by fire at an early •hour this morning. A bucket brigade saved the stables, containing a large quantity of feed. The insurances on the main building are £400, on the furniture £460, on the store £300, stock £375, ibilliard tables £200, bakehouse £50, equally divided between the Norwich Union and the British Dominions. PALMERiSTON ITEMS. PAIAEERSTON X., this day. In the Magistrate's Court this moming a young man named Ernest Vincent vrae charged with having assaulted Ger- , trude Humphreys, also with having used obscene language and assaulting Frederick Groves, an old man. Witnesses stated that both assaults were severe, the old man being knocked down twice by accused for no apparent reason, and that when the woman interfered she was aV=o struck. Accused was nn«l £5 on each assault charge, in default 14 days' imprisonment on each charge, cumulative. The obscene language charge was dismissed. Two "farmers were fined £1 each and costs for exposing lice infected ehoep for sale. Another was fined a similar amount for allowing a horse to wander on the railway, the animal being ran into by a train and killed. -—- i