VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1910, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[BT TELEOBAPU—I'KR PRES 9 ASSOCIATION.] THE DIFFERENTIAL RAILWAY RATES. WANGANUL This Day. The members of the Chamber of Commerce strongly condemned differentia! ;••*•' railways and ridiculed tin- .Minis ter's statement that he was running them to pay. Figures wore quoted in support principally of rates on coal. The Chamber expressed the opinion that the freights were inequitable and a public meeting is to be held to pro test. ASSAULT AND SUICIDE. WELLINGTON, This Day.—A single man named Win. Anderson, aged 34 years, was found early this morning in a back yard with his throat cut. Anderson resided in a house at Cambridge Terrace According U a report made to the police, the daughter of the occupier of the house on re- . turning last night from -he theatre met Anderson and was assaulted by him, sustaining a spin jaw and a broken nose. The matter was reported to the police who found Anderson lying in the back yard with his throat cut, having evidently committed suicide. Jealousy is said to be (lie cause of the trouble.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. AUCKLAND, This Day. The following were sentenced at tie Supn me , Court to-day:—Rees Nicholson for ar bon at Tauu/.irunui, three years; N'tliam John Davidson (18 years oi au- • fof forgery and theft from dwellings 18 months hard labour mi each charge accumulative; Thorr/is George Um-, for the theft of a horse and sad.il.-, thre-? years with hard labour. A NEW COMPANY. WOODVILLE, This Day.-An infli.wi tial company has been formed in Woodville, with a capital oi £IO,OOO fully subscribed, to purchase the Chr.sicln.-i Meat Company's interest and stock m tie. Woodville bacon works. The company lias also purchased the Woodville tue*ui' works from Nelson Bros., llu wor.s oi curing bacon will cmner.ee imrnea-atei., It is th ecompany'a intention to add iw machinery and plant and to i.iaKe i».• works the most complete in the dominion.