TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 759, 21 December 1908, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PEB PEEBB ASSOCIATION.] AN EXPENSIVE FROSTBITE. Dunedrn, December 18. At the Ophir Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr McEnnis, S.M., John Henry Mervyn claimed £200 from John Wilson, farmer, of Lauder, in | respect, of injuries sustained By frost bite while snow raking in July last. The point at issue was whether frostbite was injury under the Workers Compensation Act. Claimant was ' awarded £150. i A STABBING AFFRAY. Dunedin, December 20. John Morra, said to be a South American half-caste, and George Dan. iels had an altercation in Lower 'Stuart street yesterday, and Morra is alleged to hare stabbed Daniels in the chest with a penknife. Daniels, who is a carter, was r.emoyed to the hospital, where his depositions were taken-. He is in a somewhat critical condition. It appears that the men had a dispute over a cheque for 335, and Morra asserts that Daniels struck 'him on the nose and knocked him down. Morra has been arrested on a charge of wounding with intent to commit grevioas bodily iharm. MARBLE AT DANNEVIRKE. ' Napier, December 21. It is reported that a valuable discovry of a marble field has been made about ten miles from Danneyirke. A sample was brought to. Napier and polished. It gives a surface equal to the finest Italian marble. The discoverers state that the field is of unlimited extent. The Government will be 'asked to procure a reliable expert to report upon it. TROUBLE IN SAMOA. Auckland, December 21. Trouble is threatening in German Samoa, owing to the discontent of certain chiefs owin gto a loss of their power and dignity by the dispersion of the Samoan Faipule or Parliament and the appointment of inspectors to enforce planting laws. No violence is anticipated, but Governor Golf will probably have much difficulty in dealing with passive resisters and discontents. The State is under a three-Power protectorate, so that if one Power did ill by the natives the latter could complain and get a hear-* ing or redress from the other Powers. Germany became their rotectors and nothing more. Though the SaI moan Parliament had dispersed it would re-assemble. They add, "We want to hoist again the Samoan flag. We will perhaps appeal to our .former protectors to decide if we are uot justified." A MORAL OBLIGATION. Masterton, December 21. The Directors of the late firm off— «*• Howell and Co. have instructed W. B. iCh&nnf^ls, liquidator, to pay all claims against the estate in full, more as a moral than a legal obligation. One director, who 'had not signed a certain guarantee bond for a considerable overdraft at the bank, took i p the position that he would have signed had he been requested, and, therefore, paid his full share witn other directors, who on a strictly legal basis, could only have been called upon to pay seven shillings in the pound to ordinary creditors. That they should voluntarily pay twenty shillings has been very favourably commented on in commercial circles, DAIRY REGULATIONS. Pahiatua, DecemDer 19. A strong objection is being made '■ by local dairymen regarding, the Health Department's regulations with regard to the amount of solid which should constitute an equal proportion to the milk test, and the dairymen have notified their customers that they will discontinue supplying milk in the ' borough alter the middle of January if the regulations are not relaxed. A petition is being circulated witn the latter object in view. . AN OLD IDENTITY DEAD. Dunedin, December 21. The death is announced of Mr F. A. CargiJJ, eighth son of Captain CargiJl, the first Superintendent ox' Otago. The deceased, who was in his eighty-third year, was well known in early days in banking circles in Melbourne and Sydney, where he established^ branches of the Oriental Bank. He was afterwards Se- < cretary at the Bank's, head office in * London, and sul^ojwwa'il^ Inspector, sas wjater'tflTliunedin in 1869. THE NEW MAGISTRATES. Gisborne, December 19. Mr James Robert Kirk, who has been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate of the Dominion, was born in Dunedin on 12th December, 1878, consequently He is just thirty years of age, and in tino youngest magis- | trate ever appointed in New Zealand. | His scholastic career as a youth ended by his being dux of his school, and shortly afterwards matriculating. He studied with the firm of Duncan and Macgregor, solicitors, of Dunedin, and was enrolled as barrister and solicitor. He acquired the practice of Mr Herdman, M.P., and practised for seven years at Naseby, Uentral Otago, of which _ place he was twice elected mayor, and was a member of the Hospital Board. He took a keen interest in sport, was president of the New Zealand Curling Association for his province, and of the Naseby Cricket and Football Clubs ; and a vice-president of the A. and P. Association and the Farmers' Club. About three months ago he - acquired an extensive legal practice in tliie town. Mr Kerr, the other newly-appoint-ed magistrate, at one time also practised in Naseby. DEATH BY A FRACTURED SKULL. Wellington, December 21. As a sequel to the adjourned inquest on Saturday on the death of John Fergusson, a ship's fireman employed on the Harbour Board's dredge, Robert Charles Collins was to-day charged with unlawfully assaulting and slaying John Fergusson. A remand was granted to December 29. This charge was the result of the verdict of the Coroner's jury, which found a unanimous verdict that deceased came to his death by fracturing , his skull through falling violently on the roadway by reason of a blow received while in a state of intoxication.