NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9833, 26 June 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Pip. PitHJd ABSOCUTIOK.)

CHRISTC.'HCRCH. Juno 25. A conferenej is being hdd by delegate* of farnu-rs' Co-oporativa Associations and t-he I-armors' L'nion for discussing queations of contmon ir.tcreat. Mr J. A. Panuott is chairman. This morning the delegates vmitetl Rar.giora and inspected various works.

Jas. Baitley was _ charged at the Court o-day with assaulting P. Metz, a ]iaw:i .broker, with to oommit a crime, .ietz was unfit to appenr and a remand of »ight days was granted.

WELLINGTON, June 25. Horace Craniond, formerly manager for Hioa. Cook and Son, at Nelson, waa cliargxl at the Magistrate's Court with ombez13th May. The j<oliee «aid when tho defalcations were sus;» :ir! (Vaniond was eus.lended, and wi;: • -ivestigation was pro.•eeding he absccnod > • Sydney. Substantial bail was ihw :• ■ rr* asked for. Counsel or the defoir » •~. d that Cramond absconded. lb »,••,. tie would make a nient at the p.. •: iune. A remand was frtntcc till 3:.. .'-::!y, bail , self £SOO and two sureties d t»ach.

AUCKLAND, June 25. lhe Auckland Rugby Union suspendod for twelve months A. Tros;Z('- a City Club plaver. on .1 charge that ho kicked McDonald, of Marist Bros', team, in a match played on Saturday week.

n,< , , f DUNEDIN, June 25. lhe body Oi a ncwiv born mala child wub round this morning in Lake Logan wrapped in a sugar bag. T T, n „ UANNEVIRKE, June 25. J. 11. Redforn, grocer, waa lined £3 ami 7a lor faiiing to allow loovo to an .employee to atiend the annual territorial training camp. Accused had applied for oxemptieu for the employee, which was granted 0:1 condition that the latter attended tho Ciuual camp, whicli ho did not do. Defendant iniinuited to an officer of tho I)c----fenco Department that lio would sooner pay me omp!oy<hi'.s line than lofie hits servic< j. His Worship said it would never do to let inconvenience interfere with the proper administration of the Act. WESTPORT, June 25. When the Kauri was .struck by the squail -he drifted sideways on to the tip head and then slewed breiaelside on and hunt: on to the breakwater about midship*. The impact, with tho stonos must have done considerable damage as the beat was rapidly talcing in water. Her original draft was ".lift &in aft an<l 7ft. forward, but the inrush ■./ water put her down to nearly 17ft. The agnale show eel 14ft a« t.lv workable depth of the bar anei Captain Ruxtcn decided it would be unwise to make a da rt for the river, therefore he beached the vessel to prevent her foundering. That the nositiw was serious is shown by the fact that tha men in tha stokehold wrre working up to (heir waist« in water. For a cursory examination made yesterday it would appear that in Nos. 1 and 2 holds r.nd in tho ?ine rewrn the tide is ebbinc and flowinsr. It is anticiixated the carpo in No. 4 hold will be found to be damaged by water. If the vessel ean be made tight the experts consider there will be no difficulty in gettinp her off. aa she liee in a Tery protected ixwi!ion.