CABLEGRAMS & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 15 November 1906, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS & TELEGRAMS.

[United Press Association. — Copyright] • ICEBERGS 300 MILES IN LENGTH. LONDON, Wednesday. Three hundred miles of icebergs have been see;i in the neighbourhood of the Falkland Islands. CRICKET. THE AUSTRALIAN INTER-STATE MATCHES. crwn* ' ' : t 1"«-J7K ADELAIDE, Wednesday. The local second innings closed for 186, and Victoria won by 70 runs. SHIPPING. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Sailed, at 2.30 — s,s. Zealandia. TROUBLE WITH JURIES. TWO CASES AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court to-day John Sage was tried for alleged forgery. The jury disagreed and wero discharged. Georgina Frances Brown, proprietress of a Nursing Home, was tried for the alleged manslaughter of an infant through neglect. The jury in this case also disagreed, and were discharged. THE AUCKLAND TRAMWAY TROUBLE. THE POSITION ACUTE. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. At about 7.50 a large crowd gathered in front of the Tramway Company's office and made a hostile demonstration. The Managing Director, when ho appeared, was greeted with prolonged hooting and groaning. He was subsequently escorted into an adjacent hotel by several constables. At the same time two of the Company's plateglass windows were smashed by missiles thrown from the crowd. The tramway trouble regarding the dismissal of an employee reached a crisis to-night, when the traffic was disorganised for about three hours, owing to the men refusing to work. A conference was then held, when it was agreed that the employee whose dismissal had caused the trouble should be allowed to resign as from the ond of November, wages to be puid till that date ; that all tho other men should be allowed to resume work as if nothing had happened, and that in future any man accused of an offence involving dismissal should have tho right to produce evidence in his favour if procurable. The trams then resumed running as usual.