LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. The Carterton News states that owing to slackness of orders local sawmils contemplate closing down, thereby affecting forty or fifty families -of sawmill workers. The sawmillers declare they have a large stock of timber which there is no sale. The '» workers are deputationising the member for the district, requesting him to ask the Government to use native timber in preference to imported. WELLINGTON, this day. A case of importance to the travelling public was decided by Mr McArthur, S.M., to-day, when Paul Kennedy secur. ed judgment for £2 10s against the Union Company for the loss of a travelling rug. Plaintiff was travelling .in the s.s. Maitai from Sydney, and lost his rug. It was recovered by the sec : ond steward, who told him it was not safe to leave rugs in the smoke room, and suggested that the rug should be lef* in the entrance to the social hall. Plaintiff did this, but the rug disappeared. The Magistrate held that as plaintiff did as he was directed by the defendant Company's servant them was default .lor ' negligence* on ■.. the latter's part, and he gave judgment against the Company. DUNEDIN, this day. Tlie Dunedin Presbytery considered the Rev. Sutherland's overture re Mr Gibson Smith's book, "Christ of the Cross." and decided that it was not competent for the Presbytery to adopt an overture and forward it to the General Assembly. •