NEW ZEALAND NEWS. (By Telegraph-Press Association.)

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1221, 1 September 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS. (By Telegraph-Press Association.)

OSBORNE JUDGMENT. .. .. , Auckland, August 31. At the h atcrsulo Workers' Conference Mr. Ooodall (hreymouth) proposed that the (lcU'Katcs should approach candidates lor I'arlument in-various districts wUh a request to give an undertaking to support legislation to make the Osborne judgment ultra vires in New Zealand Mr. T. Smith (Wellington) stated that lio had seen in Wellington a Bill to como ijfioie I'arliauiont this session which was v a facsimile of n Bill now before the B'ouso 01 Commons. If this became law it would enable the unions to use their funds for political or other purposes as they choose Hie motion was earned. SUPREME COURT, , Invcrcargill, August 31. •vr.,; ~ supremo Court to-day, liobcrt M. Donald, charged' with theft of £% is. nd., the joint property of three others, lus males on a contract, was found guilty and admitted to probation on condition Hint ho pays towards the costs of prosedition and takes cut a prohibition orcfer. lie hearing n < begun of the ease of i!i wharf labourer, v. ( ho J<cw /isaland Shipping Company, claim ,Cs.jfl, damages for injuries received m December while working a winch on the Ruapenu. Hi, ■- Palmerston, August 31. At tho Supreme Court to-day Cornelius Jlurphy, who was found guilty of assault at Jlataroa, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. William Michin, who had pleaded guilty to carnally knowing a girl iinacr lb years of age, was ordered to como up for sentence when called upon. FOR SENTENCE, Greyinouth, August 31. Charles Johnson, an old offender, was committed for sentence in the Supremo Court this morning for breaking, entering, and theft from the roadmen's cottago in Otira Gorge. JACK SENTENCED. Cbristchurch, August 30. Harry Alexander Jack, who pleaded guilty to a charge of perjury in . connection with Ihe Cashel Street mystery, was sentenced this morning to ono year's imprisonment. Mr. .lustico Denmston said perjury in, self-defence was not so Serious a crime as perjury for tho purpose of injuring another. ' ' ON THE. EVE OF THINGS. . Gisborno, August' 30. ihc union Company's Haupiri casilj berthed at the Town" Wharf to-day, opennig up direct communication with the Gisborue Wharf and tho East Coast bays, and giving encouragement to t'lio successful initiation of a ferry service with Napier) which is promised to be instituted at an early date. FIRE. Dunedin, August 31. A firo destroyed a live-roomed houso in Richardson Street, St. Kilda, occupied by Mr. Grimman. Tho house was insured in tho State Office for .£4OO, and the furnituro in tho same office for ,£l5O. Very littlo furnituro was saved. , Mrs. Grimmarf went into a house next door, leaving a spirit lamp alight in tho kitchen, and a few minutes afterwards the house was discovered to be on firo, UNSATISFACTORY. Christchurch August 30. The Education Board to-day decided to inform tho Department that tho system under which the board required to undertake small alterations and repairs was unsatisfactory and inconvenient, aud to ask that committees be instructed to attend'to such matters, receiving an additional grant of ninepence per annum. BRIEF MENTION. Christchurch, August 31. There was a heavy clcctrical storm at noon to-day, and it was followed with a downpour of rain, Loan proposals for tho extension of the existing tramway systems to Fendalton and to Dallingtou were carried at the polls to-day.