DOMINION NEWS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 September 1925, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

BACK TO PACK-HORSES. (BY TELECfKAPHT. PKESB ASSOCIATION.) * • GISBORNE, Sept. 5. For weeks past coaches between Gisborne and Tolaga Buy have been slogging through seas of mud, and the journey of 36 miles has taken close on 12 hoUrs each day. Conditions have now reached a stage where further passage by coach ■ is impracticable, and resort iis being liiid to pack-horses. The coach has been stuck in the mud for hours at a time, with the result that th e horses have been knocked up and the gear ruined. SHUNTING INQUIRY. PALMERSTON N.. Sept. 5. The railway inquiry was resumed this morning. Joseph De Roca, yard foreman for the past 18 months, denied harassing the late Shunter Carmichael. He'was not on duty when Carmichael was fatally injured. He attributed tlie resent trouble to the railway strike. The board is expected to conclude the hearing of evidence about Tuesday. ROADSIDE CLOCKS OBJECTED TO. AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Tramwaymen, owing to the personal risk from traffic, held a ballot and decided by a large majority against continuing' registering on time clocks at the roadside, and that they will not recognise the clocks after midnight on Sunday. WORK ON LIVE WIRES. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 5. Holding that the Christchurch engineering unions claim that no linesman should be required t 6 Work on five wife unless provided with an assistant was likely to lead to difficulties if granted, the Arbitration Court has decided to leave the matter to the . discretion of the linesmen in special cases.

[ CIVIC RECEPTION TO SIR E. RUTHERFORD. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 5., A civic reception is to be tendered to Sir Ernest Rutherford when he visits Christchurch on November 3. FOUND DEAD IN HIS CAR. AUCKLAND, Sent. 5. At the inquest on Roy Morton Furness, who was found dead in his car in the Domain on August 5, evidence was given' that the deceased had been accustomed to take strychnine for his nerves, that he was a dispenser at a military hospital during the war, and therefore acquainted with the use of •the drug. The coroner said the evidence did not justify a verdict of suicide. DIED IN THE NIGHT. AUCKLAND, Sep. 5. George William West, a carpenter by trade, residing at Avondale, got out of bed during the night. His wife found him dead in the kitchen this morning. Has was escaping from a tube alongside the body. A doctor was of opinion that he had been dead for six or seven hours.