LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10138, 26 August 1904, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) THAMES, last night. The first, of a series of ten locomotives, wlidclii are being built by Price Bros., of the Thames, was sent out of tlie workshops this afternoon m tlie presence of a 'largo gathering. The total contract price was £28,000. Tlie locomotive is sinuktr to* those now being constructed at the Aldington workshops, and is a splendid piece of work of the tank type w.f. cUss With one exception it. is the "largest and lieavielst tank locomotive m New Zealand, the length being 38ft and the weight 42 tons. The boiler is of steel, t»li« working pressure being 2001bs per + square inch. The water tanks have a capacity of 950 gallons. Everything worked satisfactorily this afternoon, and the contractors were loudly cheered as the engine entered the GwernmenfsJieds. Tiie* next locomotive will be, ready In a few weeks. NAPIER, last night. The Conciliation Board to-day made the following recommendations *m connection with the pafintexs' dispute: — Number of hours worked to be the same as at. present; minimum wage to be Is 3d ncr diour, instead' of Is 2d as at present. Tl» conditions as regards overtime remain unaltered, but those relating to apprentices liave been altered' to read that, tlie proportion of apprentices to journeymen employed shall not exceed . one apprentice to every three or fraction of ths first three men. The wages of apprentices remain unaltered. Tlie usual conditional preference clause was granted, wlule the subletting of work and piecework to employees has been forbidden. The chairman explained l-hat if the recommendations stood for a month after / being filed without being challenged they would then become an a.wjjfd, which would stand for a period of three years.' OHRISTCBURCH. Inst night Margaret Beck, who was run over by a train at Heathcote yesterday, died at Lyttelton this morning. The body wais taken to Wellington by the Rotomahana this evening, thence to be sent for interment to Hokitika., where deceased formerly lived. At an inquest this afternoon a verdict of accidental death was returned. 7 lite Hospital Board yesterday reprimanded Dr Crooke and asked Dr Livesey to resign' owing to neglect of a case. The papers to-day publish the statements of the* parents of the child alleged to have been neglectjed. They assert that on Saturday, August 13th, their four-year-old 15011 fell, injuring his arm. It was taken to the liosphai by the mother, who was told by Dr Livesey to take the child "to the children's ward. ' Dr Crooke gave similar instructions. After she had waited two hours, Dr Livesey examined ' ' the arm, and said that chloroform would be necessary, but could not be administered until the return of Dr Crooke, who had gone out. Two hours later the child was still unattended, and tlie father took it away. Jix the meantime the arm liad swollen, and since tlint time nothing liad been done owing to the -state*of the arm. The doctors .have made no statement. DUNEDIN, last, night. At the Police Court to-day David Inglis, who was arrested at Christciniirc'h, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and stealing £30, also to stealing a gold watch, .and lie was remanded to tlie Supreme Court for sentence. At the criminal sitting of the Supreme Court the jury acquitted Ed. Laley and Edward diaries Laley, father and son, of a, charge of assault. In the case of tliree young men, charged with assault and robbery, accompanied by violence m day light, m front of the Princess Theatre, <Vo men named John Holland and William Booth, were found guilty of assault simply, aaid were each sentenced to nine months' 'hard labor. William Grainger .was acquitted. The* death is announced of Andrew Lees, painter, an old) and well known *S tradesman m the city. The A. and P. Society to-day resolved to take steps to provide a, fitting memorial for the late Thos. Brydone by organising a movement to raise' £1000, the income from which shonld go to a Brydone scholarship for the Lincoln. Agricultural College for the bed; all-round student m the first year. A committee was appointed to take the necessary steps. It was decided that a. lady should be associated with judges m allotting points lor general appearance and artistic display to country bays at the winter show. INVERCARGILL, last night. At tine Gore Court to-day Samuel Learmont, boardingliouse keeper, was fined £50 and costs for selling liquor. Leave to appeal was granted, security being fixed, at £70. An information against James Watt (East Gore) fer selling, and one against Thomas Stark for being on the premises for the purpose of illegally dealing m liquor, were dismissed.' All the liquor was ordered to be 'confiscated! and Uhe witnesses were indemnified. Fines and costs 'm the tw<> days'.proceedings aggregated £196.