"LIVENING" A HORSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 5

"LIVENING" A HORSE.

-TRAINER AND PUNTER. A BROKEN NOSE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, this day. When Lord Friar won the Flying Handicap at Kedron Park yesterday, W. Dawridge (trainer) appeared so displeased that he went straight to a prominent punter and hit him on the nose, which was broken in two places. Dowridge was brought before the stewards and admitted the attack. He explained that he thought the punter had "livened' , the. horse on him. HJs admitted he told the jockey not to knock tile horse about. The inquiry was adjourned.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) A BOY'S WAGES. QUIBBLE IN N.S.W. {Received 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. ■A case disclosing a serious anomaly in the award rate of wages .was decided at Albury. A youth's employer stated that he engaged him as an errand boy, but the youth declared that he had been allotted show work, and claimed the full award rate of £4 10/ weekly. Counsel for plaintiff argued that as the award was silent regarding junior labour, plaintiff was entitled to the full amount. ■Mr. Justice Bevan ruled that as the award stood he must-find in favour of plaintiff, but it was quite unreasonable that a mere boy should receive such alarge wage. It was detrimental to the country, discouraged apprenticeship, and the value of proper training, which was so generally recognised as needful. —'(A. and N.Z. Cable.) * _______ PONY' RACING. INQUIRY IN SYDNEY. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. At the pony racing inquiry one trainer alleged that trainers, bookmakers, and jockeys were afraid to give evidence because they had been victimised in the past, and were afraid they would be so again. He. did not think it was the I jockeys' ring which engineered a race. J He thought the reported doping of horses ; was a myth.— -(A. and N.Z. CaWe.) • ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. ■ SEA CAPTAIN'S AFFAIRS. i SYDNEY, November 7. At the trial of James Thomas Jones and Charles Edwin Jone3, charged with conspiracy to defraud Captain Warren, master mariner, and the mortgagee and solicitors of a station property, Captain Warren in evidence denied that C. E. j Jones was his nephew or that he ever i authorised him to pass as such or pur- ; chase property for him. He also denied i that signatures on various documents j relating to the purchase of property were i his. He admitted that the signatures on a number of blank cheques were his, but he had no recollection of signing them. His memory was good until after he met Jones.; It afterwards began to fail. He could not explain the cause of iJ. T. Jones statement from the dock i when he said that he managed all War- ' ren's affairs under power of attorney. He was being blamed for a bad property , deal which was no fault of his. C. E. Jones, in a statement from the dock, sa.id that J. T. Jones, who was his cousin, induced him to represent himself las Warren's nephew. Witness objected, 1 as it seemed to be impersonation, but his cousin said that it was all right, and that he had the advice of two solicitors.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) S.S. KORANNA ON FIRE. MAKING FOR ALBANY. PERTH, November 7. A wireless message has been received from the steamer Koranna, en route from Melbourne to African ports laden with, grain, stating that -c. fire is raging in i No. 3 hold, which is full of coal. The j vessel is in the Indian Ocean racing for j Albany. It is surmised that her position is serious, as she is at least 24 hours' steam from port. The Koranna is a vessel of 3580 tons, owned by the Ellerman and Bucknnll Company.— (A_ and N.Z. Cable.) THE ROYAL NAVY. AUSTRALIAN APPOINTMENT. ""LONDON, November 7. | Rear-Admiral P. H. Hall Thompson j succeeds Vice-Admiral Sir Allan Everett. as First Naval Member of the Common- j wealth Naval Board. — (A. and N.Z.) GLASGOW ELECTIONS. •• REPUBLICANS " DEFEATED. LONDON, November 7. The Glasgow municipal elections resulted in practically no change. A feature wa-« the overwhelming defeat of all 12 Workers' Republic candidates.—Reuter.