TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

' m t CPBE3B -ASSOCIATION.! BRUTAL ASSAULT. CHRISTCHUROH, Bth May. In connection with a brutal assault on a woman at Linwood, on Thursday night, William Cotter, and Ernest Nicholls, alias Power, M'Gnllum, and William Nicholls, were charged to-day with assaulting Sarah Faloon, and robbing her of &'l. On the application of the police, they were remanded until Wednesday. EX-SCHOOLMASTER ARRESTED. DUNEDIN, Bth May. Hugh Clark, an ex-teacher at Mac-andrew-road School, was arrested today on a charge of sending threatening letters to the Macandrew-road School Committee. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. CHRISTCHUROH, Bth May. Recently the Arbitration Court made an award prescribing certain increases in wages 'of persons employed in tea rooms and restaurants. 'Ihe proprietors are taking the change seriously, and, in more than one case, the prices of meals and refreshments are to be raised. One well-known restaurant in the city, which has made a great feature of its shilling lunch, announces to its customers that the price will be Is 6d from Monday next, owing to the newaward. FIRE ON THE RAKAIA. LYTTELTON, 9th May. , Just as the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rakaia was unmooring preparatory to sailing for London, via Monte Video, Teneriffe, and Gibraltar, smoke was observed coming through the flooring of the chief engineer's room. Examination revealed an incipient fire, the after port bunker coal being smouldering, smoking and steaming. Water was poured in and the smoke ceased. A quantity of coal was removed and a survey made by Lloyd's surveyor. The manager of the Shipping "Company states that the fire is not serious. It was caused by a naked steam pjpe passing .through a bunkor covered with coal, which was fired by the heat. The departure of the Rakaia was postponed till to-morrow morning.