ASSAULTING A FOOTBALLER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 82, 4 October 1910, Page 3

ASSAULTING A FOOTBALLER.

LEVIN, This Day. Mansel Knocks, a half-caste, while watching a recent football match at Otaki, rushed on the field and put his hip against a player who. was running with the ball. The player, Henere Rawiri, was rendered unconscious by the resulting fall. Knocks appeared in court at Otaki yesterday, charged with assault, the police having taken action. Evidence was given rJiat the assault wa«s intentional, and that Knocks had been previous convicted of assault, drunkenness, and obscene language. After a witness for the defence had deposed to Knocks's "retiring disposition," and his disinclination to hurt anybody, the Bench fined Knocks £3, with costs (£3 9s 4d). THE LASCAR INVASION. DUNEDIN, 3rd October. The following resolution has been forwarded by the Otago Trades Council to the Prime Minister, the Hon. J. A. Millar, and local members of Parliament : — "That this council is in entire sympathy with the national aspirations of the j Soamen's Unions of the Dominion in their ondeavour to prevent the invasion of cheap Lascar labour in New Zealand waters, and strongly urges the Government to pass legislation this session either to prevent the employment of Lascars and other aliens on ships engaged in the intercolonial or coastal trade of New Zealand, or to compel the shipping companies, employing that class of labour, to observe the same conditions respecting wages, overtime, holidays, etc., as owners of competing vessels. DEATH FROM BURNS. WAIROA, 3rd October. The man Patrick Donnelly, the victim of the fire at Bellerby's accommodation house, Marere, died in the hospital thip afternoon. Deceased, who was twentythree yeara of age, was employed as bushman. He was not long from. Ireland, and has a sister at Napier and a brother near Gisborne. SUSPICIOUS FIRES. TIMARU, 3rd October. Fires have been so numerous at Temuka of late, and the surrounding circumstances so suspicious, that a public enquiry was held there yesterday by Mr. V. S. Day, S.M. A number of witnesses were heard, and one, a young man, admitted that he and two others had arranged late one night to set fire to a fence and then ring the firebell. This was carried out, and at the same time a wooden building not far from the fence was destroyed by fire. The witness, who is a member of the Temuka Fire Brigade, said he had nothing to do with any fire other than the one, and the fence at Dr. Rigg's residence. A prosecution is to follow. THE LAW'S LONG ARM. CHRISTCHURCH, 3rd October. The police are advised by the Commissioner of Police that he has received a cable message from Suva stating that George Edward Owen, who was wanted in connection with a charge under the Chattek Transfer Act at Ashburton, has bee.n arrested. Owen is alleged to have sold, a bicycle which he had hired. VALUABLE STALLION BURNT. TIMARU, 3rd October. Mr. J. T. Ivey lost a valuable Clydesdale stallion, Baron Downs, by the burning of a stable at midnight. The animal was insured for £100, bui tvas worth much more.