NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 22 April 1912, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, April 20,, Tho trouble between Messrs. 1. ami Wi Gore, Ijrickmakers, and their employed was BDltlcd to-day, the firm conceding the increase, asked lor, namely, Is. per day to workers receiving 7s. and Bs. per day respectively. Taihnpe, April 20. A Tailway Grcmnn named A. V. Hound was brought into tho hospital suffering from a serious fracture of the skull, lie was engaged at tho back of tho tender, when tho engine ho was on was ill the vicinity of nn overhead bridge at Materoa, about 5 o.m. The driver missed him, and found him lying at tho back end of (ho lender. It is assumed he struck tho bridge. His condition is critical. It is believed ho belongs to Lccston or Christclnireh, Napier, April 20. At an inquest regarding the death of the lad Charles Alexander Pullar, an nbsconder from tho Wereroa Training Farm, who hanged himself in a police cell, tho evidence of Mr. Hnrlmßfon, master of tho farm, went to show that deceased was of a peculiar temporauient, and that ho had been twice punished -it tho farm, but not severely. The jury returned a verdict of Euicide, there being no evidence to show tho state of tho boy I

miud. Napier, April 20. H.M.S. Encounter on arrival at Nnpiei , on Friday berthed at tho breakwater. J hut is the first occasion on which a warship lins lied up at the wharf at Xapicr. Chritichurch, April 21. Tho body of a Christchurch builder f who lias been missing for some, time, wad found this moriiini? rear Ainberlpy in a water h»lo flbsut t.hree-qu.irturs of a uiue away from (ho wlmrn where he was liv- . ing wliilo superinlendiKg a job, and where he was last epcii. T!io body was fonud Heating on tho Buriaco of the water. Tlmaru. April 21. Mr. William Fitzijeruld, one of the early settlors of tlio Levels Plains tISGS) w«3 yestordar thruwii from his _ trap through tho horso shyins at a vabbit. Ho died shortly after ho wm ti\keu home. Jle was '1 years old. ChristclHirch, April Jl. Tho Sou'th CMiterbury Jockey Olub hos hwi a woll bomi K6 feet at tbo racecourse, end oktviacd pood ualvr, rifil'.f to J5 feet from Iho surface.