NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 256, 22 July 1908, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IB! TELEGBArn—PBESS - ASSOCIATION'.i •' 0 YOUNQ VVOiVIAN'S TRAGIC DEATH CUT TO PIECES BY THE EXPRESS. • ' Ashburton, ; July'2l., A shocking accident occurred on the midday express from Christchurch > to-day, by which a passenger, a young womau, whoso name is unknown, and aged about 22 years, was cut to pieces. ' ( It seems Bhe was suffering from illness, and went out on to the carriage platform, from winch she was seen to fall, apparently 111 a faint. Several carriages passed over her, and on tho train being stoppod, life was found to bo extinct,- and the body fearfully mangled. A railway ticket found where she fell was for Orari. - ; - ,Tlio body has been taken on to Timaru. The girl was dark, and a 'little over' five--feet iii height. , > • THE ARBITRATION'BILL. VIEWS OF THE HAWKE'S BAY EM ■ PLOYERS' ASSOCIATION. Napier, July 21. A committee' of the Hawko's: Bay Em--ployers' Association has considered the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Bill and tho amendments suggested bjvtho Employers' Federation. The committee is generally favourable to the proposed amendments 1 made by the Federation, but does not approve of _ the .Canterbury proposal to leave disputes in the hands of a public conciliator only.' In conclusion, the' Hawke's Bay Association committee ; says"The proposed Act appeals to us as a bona fide endeavour-, to put industrial'conditions on a .better footing for 0,11 concerned, and some such Act is the only hope 1 of'preventing compulsory conciliation and arbitration from being swept away altogether." . ■ BURGLARY AT AUCKLAND. *; ; JEWELLER'S SHOP ROBBED. ' Auckland, July 21.'. lh© shop of Jamos jeweller, Karangahape Road, was between 6.30 and 7 'to-night visited.by a burglar, who carried off' jewellery to the value of £400. Mri Pascoo'. •is in the'habit of going home to, tea at 6.30, leaving.a placard on the door of the shop, i which is always locked, of course, stating that he' will return at 7. - The'burglar made his entrance.through a!window, at the rear of the shop, and made a "clean sweep of al,most everything,- including a- parcel of jewellery, that'had been, leTt;on approval. : ' "SIMPLY APPALLING?', ABSENCE OF TRUE HOME INFLUENCE. Auckland,' July 21. The. laxity of parental control at the present time was the subject of some stringent remarks by Mr. C. C. Kettle; S.M.,'at the Polico Court this afternoon in the course of. a case in which a 12-year-old boy was charged with stealing jewellery , and money. "The general laxity among the young people is simply . appalling," said".Mr. Kettle. "There seems to bo a widespread disregardto the rights of property and moral obliga- : tions. More and more 1 can see, inside and outside of the' Court, that .tho loose bringing ; tip of children, thes absence of anything like .true, home influence,, neglect to . inculcate a . proper appreciation and reverence of things holy, and the consequent aud deplorable disrespect of children foi' their .elders, is, a living scandal, to our society, and is-tending to undermine tho whole moral and"social fabric." He ordered the boy in question to receive 12 strokes of tho birch.' CHRtSTCHURCIT WATER' SUPPLY WORKS. . Christchurch, July 21. A roport.-presented -to the City Council last evening dealt'at length .with the progress - of work in connection • with the city's high ' pressure water supply. Of 226,000 feet of piping, required, 73,000" feet • has .been, de- ' ' livered, and £8847 -paid on account.' Tha '. reservoir at the pumping .station is well in - hand; the excavation is nearly completed, and the concreting commenced. The expenditure to date totalled £12,639, and contracts - had been accepted for £33,800. This muiii- • cipal work is expected to employ: a good: many men in a few weeks. , : LICENSING LAW, AMENDMENT. Dunedin, July 21. In the event of Mrl Laurenson's Bare Majority Bill: coming before , .Parliament, tho Otago , and; Southland Licensed Victuallers' - Association, .intends' proposing a new clause, .raising tho minimum age of persons to whom liquor may bo : supplied, to twenty-one, and providiug that wherever no-license is carried no liquor shall be permitted in the district; • that wherever liquor is discovered in no-lic-ense districts/the persons responsible should be punishable with fine'or imprisonment. AUCKLAND, SCHOOLS: , Auckland, July 21. In 18S7, there were 21,186 children'on: the. rolls of Auckland schools, and in 1903' tho number had risen to 34,31-1. , CHARGE OF BURGLARY. ; - /'Christchurch; July 21. Three months ago Mrs. ;J. Best,, of Redcliffs, reported, to the police that,'.lief house ' had.been entered in the afternoon during her temporary .absence, and jewellery valued at . £65 stolen. v This afternoon. Detectives Gib- 1 son and, Ward arrested a mail named Hayes in the city, and charged him with the burg- . l.iry. Most.of the missing jewellery has b.-t-n recovered.- ' . , ■ ; DWELLING-HOUSE DESTROYED. ...... Napier,, July 21.. TA six-roomed house, owned by ■'Mr. R. ' Snundeis, and occupied by Mr. j. S. Hood, was totally destroyed by firo early this morning. Tho building was an old one, and was rapidly, consumed. Insurances: House, £250 in tho, Norwich Union; furniture,• £100 in tho South British. NAPIER HARBOUR BOARD. ■ 1 v Napier, July 21; At a meeting of : tho Napier.' Ilarbour' Board to-day it was resolved that stops "ba taken to the constitution of thd Board altered so that: members may bo made entirely elcctivo by-thc electors of t)io boroughs, town districts, ;tfid counties in the district; and that representation' be based as nearly as may bo upon tho valuation of the different portions'of the harbour , rating district. ALLEGED THEFT OF POSTAL NOTES. 1 , Auckland, July 21. At, the Police Court this afternoon James A. Schmidt' was' charred with theft of five postal notes of / various values. After con- ' siderablo ovidonco had been heard, the case • ivas adjourned till Thursday. FRUIT,FROM THE ISLANDS. - Auckland, July 21. The steamer Navua,. which arrived from Fiji to-day, brought about 100 sacks of maizo ind a small cargo of bananas. The maize ,vas affected'by the grain moth, which was 'ound in the .last shipment from tho Islands, md the fruit arrived in splendid order. Consignments by the Moana, which reached Vuckland from Sydney-on Sunday,-showed 110 ndication of fruit fly or other infection; in act since the new regulations have come nto force shippers have been very careful not ;o ship infected fruit. . ' NEWS IN BRIEF. ■ July 21. The death is announced of Mr. Alexander ■rigor, one of Otago's veteran schoolmasters, gc<l 76. Deceased had bepn teaching for early fifty years. :. . . ' -,''Christchurch, July 21. Thomas Coogau to-day was, sent ,to gaol or twelve months for st'rniing. ten pounds': :orth of surgical. instrumWits from Dr. Gibon's -motor car, .which was standing at a aticnt's door. Napier, July 21. A start has been made, with the pile-driv- . . lE'for the fcrro concreto extension of tho la sgow Wharf,