DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 71, 14 March 1914, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

COMPENSATION CASE. [Feb Press Association.j Wellington, March 13

The Arbitration Court has awarded Antonia Nicholson £468, as compensation for the loss of her husband, who died as the result of an injury to the hand through running an awl into it while working as a saddler for W. F. Gundrie in Martinborough. The injury was followed by blood-poison-ing. The defence declared the injury was caused while the man was tacking wood in his own backyard, but the Court did not accept this view.

GAOL ESCAPEE CAPTURED. Timaru, March 13,

Wilson, one of the two youths who escaped from the Timaru Gaol two nights ago, was captured at noon today at Adair, live miles from town. He was bailed up by a constable when resting on the roadside. He had obtained shoes, a revolver, and a butcher’s knife, and had some food. He was very tired, and refused to talk. His mate is supposed to have gone further south, as it is reported that several places had been broken into about Otaio. When first arrested, both admitted that it was they who tried to steal a motor-launch from Timaru harbor some time ago. They intended to go to Auckland 'u her, but could not manage the engine.

A DISORDERLY MEETING. Wellington, March 13,

Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister of Customs and Marine, held a meeting at St. Peter’s Hall to-night. The building was packed with a crowd which, on the Minister’s appearance, broke into disorder, and would not allow him to speak.

Mr Fisher suggested that the meeting nominate a speaker to debate the Reform policy. Mr Holland’s name was called loudly, and he mounted the platform. A section of the audience then howled Holland down, and after lie had , tried for some time to got a hearing, the police removed him. Meantime, the police had been busy in the body of the hall, ejecting disturbers. A window was broken, and some of the hall furniture roughly handled, and the meeting broke up in disorder, without any address being delivered. Many women were among the audience, and joined at timeg in the general clamour.