STRIKES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXX, Issue 8623, 26 October 1888, Page 5

STRIKES.

WINDING UP THE JUBILEE COMPANY. [Peb Peebs Association.] AUCKLAND, Oct. 25, Consequent upon the settlement of the difficulty between the Seamen’s Union and the Shipowners’ Association, the Jubilee Company, which was established in opposition to the Northern Steamship Company, is to be wound up. The Company has not proved a paying investment, the rates having been fixed at too low a scale BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. MR LAW’S LIBEL ACTION. £30,000 DAMAGES. (Tee Association.] AUCKLAND. Oct. 25. Mr H. Law, late Bank of New Zealand Manager at Adelaide, left for the South by the Tarawera at noon. Before leaving he left decisive instructions with his solicitors, Messrs Hesketh and Richmond, to prosecute the Bank Committee for the language made use of in their report, and to prosecute the New Zealand Herald for the language used by them in their article on Oct. 23. Damages in the firstcase are laid at £20,000, and in the second at £IO,OOO. Mr Law has arranged to return to Auckland at any time his solicitors require his presence. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. A CHILD’S SAD FATE. [from our own correspondent.] TIMARU, Oqt. 25. The two-year-old daughter of Henry Coulter, of South Rangitata, strayed away on Tuesday morning. She was not found till mid-day yesterday, and Tuesday night having been very cold and wet, the little thing had died from exposure. Mr Coulter and family were on a visit to his father-in-law, Mr Wi 1 Ham Ashley, of Upper Orari. The little girl and a brother aged seven were playing in the stockyard at nine o’clock on Tuesday morning, about which time the boy appears to have left his little sister for some purpose, and on returning missed her. Later on the elders about the house enquired for her, and the boy could give no answer. The premises were searched in vain, and the neighbours could give no information. The creek hard by was carefully examined, but without result. The neighbours were summoned, and search for the child was continued all that evening, and until 2 a.m. of yesterday without avail. The night was very cold and wet, and it was felt it would be almost impossible for the child to survive it. Next morning twenty persons on horseback began the search again. It should be mentioned that there is a good deal of open tussock country thereabouts. During the morning a bunch of flowers the child had worn in her dress was found, and this find infused fresh energy into the searchers. About mid-day the poor child’s dead body was found in the tussocks at the top of the terrace near Tripp’s Cutting, about four miles from Mr Ashley’s house, whence she had strayed.