BUTTER UP.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 2 June 1914, Page 4

BUTTER UP.

Sydney, June 1 Butter has advanced Is per cut.

FIFTEEN YEARS' FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

Received June 2. at 0.10 a.in

Sydney, June 2.

John Stcnhouse lws been sentenced to lo years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of his wife at Prirntmatta. During a quarrel 011 Good Friday, while nuclei - the influence of liquor, he struck her Severni blows jh tlio head with a hammer.

INCREASED SHIPPING RATES. Sydney, June 2

.Increased passage and freight rates at the interstate.' ports came into ioriv yesterday. The increase amounts lo 1.-, ou general cargo «ud 011 passenger fares approximately 10 pel - cent. The increase* in shipping rates doi\s not apply to live, stock. AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN INJURED. Melbourne, Juno J. Wizard Stouo was injured duritig hi.s trial flights. His monoplane was wrecked when 200 feet from the ground. The machine was caught in a gust, ul wind 1 , side-slipped, and crashed to the earth. The Melbourne-Sydney flight has been postponed indefinitely.

BOARD OF HEALTH RETURNS Sydney, June 2.

Board of Health returns show that 7-1 eases of smallpox were reported last month. The birth-rate is unsatisfuclory. being 8 per cent, below the average of the- previous five years. ACCIDENT TO THE WAII'AK.V. Sydney. June 2. The Waipara has been berthed at Cairns. The vessel does not- appear to have been seriously damaged.