LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 30 August 1905, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Per Press Association. iSiiPili-t, la«>t nigtti. A futal accident occurred at Putetapu this morning. A little boy named Koiio Gordon Le^uesiie, 15 mouths old, wuo was playing with an older brother near his parents house, was suddenly missed by ms mother, wiio on searching found tne body in a creek a abort distance away from the house. Life was extinct when tlie body was recovered, although it must have been in the water only a lew minutes. WELLINGTON, last night. Mrs Thompson, an elderly woman residing in Wallace street, was so seriousiy injured through stepping froni a moving tram at Thorndon station to-night, that she died from shock about half-an-hour later. HOKITIKA, last night. Thomas George Hailing, from Otago, employed on tho dredge Alikonui, was committed* for trial to-day oh a charge of attempting to discharge a loaded pea line at James Nelson, the man in charge. OHRISTCHURCH, last night. A womaij wus charged with having worked a horse whilst it was suffering from six opeu sores. , Defendant stated that sho liad put a suck under the collar, and thougnt ib would not affect the animal. She was hiied £_. _'or having procured liquor for a prohibited person a, man was fined £5. Three milkmen, charged with having sold impure milk, were faned by the Magistrate, hi the case of one, who had purchased milk • from another dairyman, a iii]<s ,of la was inflicted, the Magistrate pointing out, however that the apparatus ior testing milk could be obtained at a trilling cost. In the other coses the defendants were lined £3. and £2 respectively.

Michael Drummond, employed on the tramway construction works, lies in a very serious condition at the hospital, the result of an accident yesterday. He was working in the vicinity of others, who were removing old Hues by means of a lever. The rope attached to the lever snapped and the bar flew forward, striking Drummond on the head and rendering him unconscious.

DUNEDIN, last night. W. Bailey, who was injured in the Southland v. Otago football match on Saturday, died at -.30 this evening. His temperature had been rising all day. A smart shock of earthquake was felt at 3.37 this afternoon*

INVERCARGILL, last night. At the Supreme Court this afternoon John Tonkins, for theft from the person, was sentenced to two years' hard labor. John Hayes, charged in conjunction, pleaded not guilty to theft of a watch and jewellery, valued at £50, from a sawmill hub in 1903, got six months, his Honor stating tliat tho sentence was made light because of the youth of the prisoner and there being no previous conviction for dishonesty. Daniel Swan will be tried for the murder of his wife to-morrow.

The Arbitration Cbutr sut here to-day. Tlie Inspector of Factories was granted leave to withdraw a complaint against the proprietor of tlie Western Star newspaper ior boys having been paid deficient wages and not being indentured. W. G. Quicke wa« proceeded against for paying less than tho carpenters' award wages to a youth said to have asked him for Avork. His father would not havo him indentured. He was now receiving seven shillings per day under a permit. The Court held that no breach had been disclosed, as the respondent never was asked to take the lad as an apprentice. There might have been something to answer if the charge had been working a lad without a permit. Mederer, a sawiniller, was fined £1 and costs for casually employing a man as shoeman at laborers' wages while the mill was being got ready for work. W. t J. Perry, sawiniller, was fined £10 for paying a slabman less than the award rate, ignorance being pleaded. Perry was charged with employing a youth at work for which he would have to pay a mun award wages. The Court pointed out that clause 4, containing the schedule of wages, also stated that a bov 16 years of age could be employed at "3s 6d per day provided his wages were raised Is per day each year. It -was open for the employer to work the lad in any branch. The boy must be held to have become a man when he had reached his majority. A person over 21 years might still be incapable of doing a man's work' and provision was made to meet such cases. J. W. Watson, tailor, was fined £10 and costs for paying a machinist of seven years' experience 5s a week, and latterly 7s 6d. A girl said she was an apprentice to Watson, but was never given apprentice work, and did all his machining. Tlie Court pointed out that the lowest rate should be 265, this including machinists.