SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 89, 15 April 1913, Page 2

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . ' ; • MINISTER.FOR-RAILWAYS. "' 7_:,:.,..',' Monday. _ v . The Hon. W. H. Hemes left ior, the 'South "this evening to comple-fee-his inspection of" the'"railway lines. He staged" tb'-SSy that he.was; hot ih.'a'posi•ticm. to announce the name of the new - General Manager, of Railways, but it might be made public, in a few days after Cabinet meets. -, ,-, . f_l-'.t_SSAnLT 025".'A' PO-JOFIMATST. ™■'■*■?" ''DtiNEijiX, Monday. 7 Jaek'Phelanv a'young- farm and flax-ifaiH-labourer, was sentenced to a month's • finprisonment at- the Police Court to-day for' assaulting Constable Kndlay. When •Phelan was heiiig arrested,; he drew t a _~ibpttle .from.his hip..pocket, and struck the constable across' the mouth with it, "■- ikin-w his teeth. A BRIEF. STSRIKE. '.'.'.'':*:; .;•.;."' ';; '.GOBE/Monday. .... JEreezing;. chamber:". hands', slaughtermen's _ assistants, and. rabbit-packers "■■ etruck"-at' theMataura, Freezing Works ; on Saturday. , The trouble'arose .over butchers being put on to unload coal: The..: unionists considered have been given to them before casual labour ' " Ddelates representing-the men conferred wHhl£e a. settlemlS;w£ '?!___*: mc ? r *#rhed at