NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 5 March 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Peess Association.) WELLINGTON, March 4. The annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Plumbers and (<ae Fitters Association of Workers is being attended by delegates from Auckland, Wellington, Taranaki, Christchuroh, Tim am, Dnnedin and Invercargill. Regarding the promised Dominion award referred _to ywcerday in the Arbitration Court with a request by the Association that a conference of the parties be ordered to negotiate on a basis of the Auckland award, the judge had stated he had no nower to eonipel a conference, but would suggest that one be held. Acting on the suggestion the parties conferred last night. Nothing definite was decided and die whole matter was again referred to the court C'IIHISTCUrRCH. March 4. Alexander Thomson, charged with manslaughter iu connection with the death of his mother, in consequence, of a ruptured raricoso vein, was eontinined for trial. A new feature was iniroe.ue. d into the ease by the evidence of a. child, n, brother of accused and a *»on of deceased. The charge arose from a blow rewired by dcoessod during a quarrel between (ho son Alexander and a man named Baxter, with whom deceased lived. The boy stated that Baxter told him after his mother's death to sav that Alexander gava his mother a blow and knocked her down. The statement was untrue. Baxter, in evidence, stated that Thomson struck deceased four time*, knocking her down against a box and causing a rupture of the vein.