INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10137, 25 August 1904, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) WHANOAREI. this day. Wm. Carson met with a serious accident whilst jacking logs at Puliipuhi yesterday. A log rolled l and crushed several ribs, chipping one thigh bone. The sufferer was carried on a stretcher to Whakapuru. There are good hopes of his recovery. AUCKLAND, this day. The management of the Auckland Hospital furnished a topic for discussion at the meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners last night. The following" resolution was adopted : "That this branch direct its delegates to the Trades and Labor Council to move the .Council m the direction of urging the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the whole management of the Auckland Hospital, and more especially with reference to. the charges made by Dr. Neil 1 ; also that Mr George Fowlds should be asked to take steps to ventilate the matters m the House." The Trades and Labor Council has carried a motion asking for a Royal Commission. In a claim of £100 for asault made by L. M. Jay, prisoner, against James O'Reilly, at the time warder at Mount Eden gaol, the Magistrate, Mr Kettle, gave judgment for plaintiff for £10. He isaid he did not consider undue violence had been used by O'Reilly m enforcing the orders of the .gaoler to photograph plaintiff, then an unconvicted prisoner, committed to gaol for safe custody. He, however, ruled tliat regulation No. 17, made, under the Prisons Act, 1882, was ultra vireis, the law including no such power to photograph prisoners committed simply for safe custody. Even supposing the regulation was vajid the only justifiable maimer of enforcing it was by an appeal to the visiting justices m a regular manner. Taking into consideration the whole of the circumstances of the case and chiefly tliat O'Reilly was acting under orders, the Magistrate considered £10 met the case m regard to damages. Execution was stayed for fourteen days for defendant, who is now m Wellington, to consider the matter of appeal. MARTON, this day. In Chambers this morning .Mr Stanford, S.M., refused to sign an application from a licensee m tlie Wairarapa district far a conditional license for the ( Marton Jockey Club's race meeting, on the ground tliat the applicant was a lij censee outside the Manawatu licensing district. WAIROA. tins day. Matenc Hamutaua, a half-caste, was committed to trial at the Supreme Court, Napier, on a charge of perjury, arising out of his evidence m a recent assault case. Bail was allowed. WELLINGTON, this day. ' Mr Watkin Mills, the famous English basso, arrived! from Sydney last night, and commenced a tliree days' festival at ■the Opera House m conjunction with the Wellington Musical Union. Mr Mills met wiitfh an excellent reception from a very large audience. In the case of the Eastern Extension Company v. the Commissioner of Taxes, the Appeal Court unanimously decided that the Company was not lianle for income tax -m New Zealand upon profits derived by the transmission of messages from Port Darwin- to Madras, but only between Wakapuaka andl La Perouse cable station, near Sydney. The case was remitted to the Supreme Court for assessment of tax on that basis, and the question of costs and leave to appeal to the Privy Council) we're deferred till the amount of the tax was ascertained. A man named Arthur Forlonger died from injuries received at the Wellington Meat Export Company's works, through the explosion of a tin of naphthaline. Deceased was married, his wife living m A T ictoria. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Andrew Anderson, a boarding-house keeper, -was fined £40 this 'morning for sly grog-selling ou August 14th. Kiernan, who was admitted to the hospital last night, suffering from a fractured skull, the result of a collision whilst cycling, died to-day.