TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15821, 21 July 1913, Page 6

TELEGRAMS

(Pzb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 19. A. G. Brett, clerk of the Eden Terrace Road Board, was charged at the Police Court, at the instanoe of the Audit Department, with failing to account for £13 os, 3d. He. was remanded for a week.

WELLINGTON, July 19. T::e union's proposal for the newcarpenters and joiners' award include an increase of wages to Is 6d per hour, and a 44-hour week. MASTERTON. July 20. A six-roomed house, owned' and occupied by Mr Robert Russell, was gutted by fire at an early hour this morning. Mr Russell and his family were absent at the time of the fire.' The insurances are not available. TIMARU, July 19. The committee of the Tiraaru branch of the Farmers' Union had a long discussion to-day as to the most suitable time for holding military camps. Two opinions were strongly held" by different members, six favouring. Easter and five the end of October. It 'twas finally decided to call a general meeting of farmers to discuss the question.

An inquiry was held to-day into the fire which destroyed a small unoccupied cottage a, short time ago. Two boys and a woman testified to seeing, two men (neighbours) in the house a short time before the fire broke out. The men gave more particular testimony as to the time of their visit, two hours before that given bv the boys. In view of the contradiction the coroner returned an open verdict. The introduction of • the new union of wharfside workers and the subsequent acceptance of many old hands appears to have provided an "excess of hands, and complaints are being made by some of the new hands that they do not get a fair share of the work and are left out when some of the late strikers are employed. Yesterday a couple of fistic enecounters arose out of such disputes. ,

INVERCARGILL July 20. Tlie judgment of Mr Justice Williams in the case Royds Bros, and Kirk v. Robert ]~ Wilson (Waimate), a claim fcr £596 foT goods supplied to a grocery business conducted by the defendant's son in Invercargill, was" delivered on Saturday bv the registrar. , The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant was the real owner ; f the business, and that he had assumed liability for payment for goods advanced to his son. His Honor held that there was no evidence to support this contention, and gave judgment for the defendant with costs.