GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11196, 17 October 1899, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Lvvekcargill, Monday. Alex. Forsyth, a single man, 45 years of age, was thrown from his horse at Hedgehope this morning, and killed, his neck being broken. It appears that, lie was breaking in a young animal, and the saddle girth parted. Dunedix, Monday. At the Conciliation Board the secretary of the Seamen's Union reported that they were unable to agree with the shipowners as to the scope of the agreement. The Board reported that they were unable to bring the parties together, the result of which is that the dispute now goes before the Arbitration Court.

Alfred T. Price, chemist, was arrested to-day on a charge of conspiring with Catherine Ashton to perform an illegal operation on Ellen Sequin. Price and the woman Ashton will be jointly charged 011 Wednesday. Hastings, Monday. A very sharp shock of earthquake was felt here at five minutes j>ast eight this morning. CimisTCHUECir, Monday. The horse fiend lias appeared at Dunsandel. A two-year-old draught gelding belonging to J. S. Boag was killed between Saturday night' and Sunday morning. A pucturcd wound was found in the throat near the point of the shoulder. The body of a man was found yesterday on the beach at Governor's Bay. He was not known in the district. At the inquest a verdict of " found drowned" was returned. Wellington, Monday, The Kaiapoi Woollen Company pays an 8 per cent, dividend for the year. When the case against a man named-Wil-son, charged with a serious assault on his ■wife, was heard to-day. a different complexion was put upon the affair by the woman's evidence, and the charge assumed a much less serious aspect. According to the wife, she assaulted her husband, and so far from having the sight of her eye destroyed, it had been blind for 20 years. Under these circumstances the case was dismissed.