ANOTHER SHOOTING AFFAIR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 3

ANOTHER SHOOTING AFFAIR.

SEQUEL TO A FAMILY QUARREL. Cprbss association.] DUNEDIN, 14th December. A sensational incident happened at North Dunedin to-night about 7 o'clock, when a young map named John Stephen Toomey went to his home in Cumberlandstreet. It is alleged that a dispute arose between him and his stepfather, Daniel MMJurdy, a farmer by occupation. The latter, it is said, threw a knife at Toomey, cutting him on the arm. Toomey, leaving tho room, procured a rifle and fired at M'Curdy through the window The bullet struck M'Curdy in the thigh. Toomey was arrested on a charge of discharging firearms with intent to do grievous bodily harm. M'Curdy walked to the hospital, where he Was attended to. It is not thought probable that the bullet lodged in his leg. COOK ISLANDS TEADE. £Bt Telegeapk. — Special to The Post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Tho prospectus of the Cook Islands Trading Company, Limited, whose headquarters are to be at Auckland, has been issued. Tho company is being formed -with a capital of £40,000 in £1 chares to acquire the business of the existing Cook Islands Trading Company, of London. The price to be paid, ■which is to bo determined by arbitration, will ib is anticipated, amount to about £14,000 Two seats on the dir- j ectorate will be allotted to southern j shareholders. I [PBEB3 ASSOCIATION.! MINERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINATION. REEFTON, 14th December. The Blackwator miners have ondorsed the resolution of tho union against medical examination. Mr. T. E. J. Malloy, president of the Miners' Union, declares the position is absurd. There is no personal trouble between the men and the employers. The inclusion of the term pneumonicosis was not required by the miners, who wanted something workable. This was absolutely unworkable, and not really of benefit. The miners, if they pass one examination, would only be called on later to submit to another when affected, and would then have cast aside their right under the Act. The men said the companies would hav6 to protect themselves. There should be give and take. Mr. Malloy suggested that the mine owners and the umon should go halves in paying special insurance against miners' complaints — said to be 12s per £100. The men would only be too glad to pay 6s towards that. The president also suggested that the Government should form the nucleus of a compensation fund. The workers, he added, had not asked for the inclusion' of the disease. The idea was all right, but how it was to be carried out und the ensuing difficulties were not even considered. He believed the Miners' Federation would uphold the anti-medical examination. The Donniston miners would throw it aside after Ist January. A discharge from a mine would destroy a man's chance for re-engagement. The imposition of a royalty of, say, sixpence per ounca on gold, subsidised by the Government, would enable a compensation fund to oa formed. The mine owners insist on the medical examination at New Year. All small prospecting shows lately a check. This is a pity, as some were promising remarkably well. INFECTED FRUIT DESTROYED. AUCKLAND, 14th December. Tho Huddart-Parker steamer Wimmera, which arrived 'from Sydney on Sunday, brought a shipment of 798 cases of fruit for this port. On the consignment being landed to-day it was discovered that about 100 cases of oranges and apricots were badly infected «vitti the fruit fly. They were immediately ordered to bo destroyed. FREE SCHOOL BOOKS. NAPIEE, 14th December. In a report on free school books submitted to-day the inspectors of the Hawkes Bay Education Board stated : "Although sixpence is a small allowanco for the pui-chase of books in the preparatory classes, as two and often three infant and primer readers are used during the year, we are of the opinion that by careful management and expenditure of the funds available it will be possible to provide plenty of reading matter for the use of the junior pupils." The board deferred consideration of the report till next meeting. WOOLLEN COMPANY PAYS 8 PER CENT. OAMARU, 14th December. At the annual meeting of the Woollen Factory Company hold this evening the report and balance-sheet were adopted. A dividend of 4 per cent, for the halfyear was carried, making 8 per cent, for the year. DUNEDIN'S HOSPITAL COLLECTION. DUNEDIN, 14th December. Tho Hospital Saturday collection iealised £1275 14s Bd, and the amount available for distribution is £1350, which has been apportioned as follows : Dunedin Hospital, £575; St. John Ambulance, £375 ; Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society, £75 ; Victoria Jubilee and Convalescent fund. £70; Karitane Home, £210; Hospital for Incurables, £45. MAGNETIC SURVEY. OHRISTCHURCH, 14th December. In the course of a, projected visit to the West Coast Sounds, it is understood that Dr. Farr, of Canterbury College, intends to complete the magnetic survey of New Zealand, this portion of the Dominior being the only part not yet Surveyed. R. G. DEAN'S MEMORIAL. CHRISTCHURCH. 14th Dec. The Canterbury Rugby Union decided at a meeting 'to-nißht to- vote £25 towards the establishment of a scholarship ' at the Boys' High School as a mem orial to the late R. G. Deans, who at on« time was a pupil at the school. The Old Boys' Association, which is taking the initial steps in the matter, asked for the union's co-operation. A subcommittee was set up to report on the question as to the advisableness of the Canter-

bury Rugby Union taking steps to commemorate Deans by the establishment of a cup, shield, or trophy, to be competed for m senior local matches. jy PROFESSOR LOWRIE ENTERTAINED. CHRISTCHURCH, 14th Dec. To-day was farmers' day at Lincoln Agricultural College, and thove was a large attendance of agriculturists and others at the luncheon in tho afternoon, presided over by the Hon. E. C. J. Stovens, chairman of tho Board of Governors. The director, Professor William Lowrie, and Mrs. Lowrie, were tha re< cipients of presentations of plate, mad© by the different agricultural and pastoral associations of Canterbury. Mrs. Lowrie was also presented by tho members of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club with a ladies' travelling dressingcase. The chairing, in proposing the toast of Professor Lowrie's health, eulogised the work don© by him during his seven I years' connection with the college, and stated he had been unable to get a, man in Australasia, with tho necessary qualifications, to take Mr. Lowrio's place at Lincoln College. Arrangements wer9 being made for tho selection of a man in England?" Professor Lowrie leaves on Thursday for West Australia, where he takes up the position of Director of Agriculture under the State Government. AN EDUCATION BEQUEST. DUNEDIN, 14th December. The University Council _ to-day adopted a scheme for the distribution of the funds of the Boverley bequest in terms of the will of the lata Arthur Bevorley. Tho scheme provides for a scholarship to be awarded annually, tenable for three years, i to the candidate passing tho matriculation I in the New Zealand University either in the Junior Scholarship examination, including mathematics, or in tho New Zealand University matriculation examination, including Euclid and algebra as pass subjects. The value of this scholarship is £20 if the candidato resides in or around Dunedin, and £45 if tho candidate's home is in the qountry. The holder of the scholarship must take tho B.Sc. course. A scholarship of similar amount, tenable for tKe remainder of the three years' scientific course, is provided for students in senior mathematics and mechanics, or junior physics. A scholarship, valued at £50, may be awarded to the most eligible candidato in (a) higher mathematics (including mechanics) mid (b) to the most eligible^ candidato in advanced physics. Provision is made for tho appointment of a Bovorlov demonstrator of physics at a salary of £200, v.'hile sums of £100 for two years, and £50 for two years are set apart for apparatus for teaching 1 physics and mechanics respectively, and £50 for books for the library. The total demand on the fund under the scheme is £470 minimum and £620 maximum.