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PEMB ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, March 71 The miners at Karangahake railway tunnel are yet ont on strike. _ Mr Palmer interviewed them, this morning. They said , the GoVemment terms would not give them a living wage, and they would not accept them; they would be willing to have a fair price fixed by any three competent mine managers or work at 8s per day for one month, and then fix a co-operative price on the basis of that amount of work Messrs Tfiegeail and Jackson Palmer, interviewed Mr H. P. Barry, superintendent of the Waihi Goldmining Company, requesting the reinstatement of the men recently dismissed. Mr Barrj would not reinstate them, saying that it was their own fault as they were unsuitable. Mr Palmer pointed out that it was singular these particular men, the executive of the union and old hands, should be singled out for dismissal. Mr Barry replied that they created strife amongst their fellow workmen. ,He would not alter hie decision. .At the Police; Court to-day, a young man named George Donovan, a jockey, wai fined 40s and costs or 14 days 5 imprisonment, for cruelly illtreating the horse Venus in a steeplechase at Potter’s Paddock. The evidence showed that the horst had been cruelly spurred. WANGANUI. March 7. The new system of granting railway passes for the' Bifle Association meeting has been arranged by the Defence Minister. All railway passe® must now be _ issued by the officer commanding the district and rifle club men must send their application t to Colonel Summerville, being careful to state the station at which they wish to entrain. Colonel' Sommerville will wire the name to the officer commanding the. district. A daring burglary was committed to-dav a man named Haywood, from Wellington, being captured by the owner of a house. Jewellery stolen from another place the night before was found on the man. HOKITIKA. March 7.
At the Supreme Court Jas. Louden, charged with the manslaughter of Jas. Stephens ir> a fight at Dillmanstown, was acquitted.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4300, 8 March 1901, Page 5
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