DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 286, 1 December 1914, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

CATTLE-MAIMER CONVICTED. Per Press 'Association. Auckland, November 30. At the Supreme Court a youth a.uned Abraham Merrick, who pleaded guilty in the lower Court to a charge of maiming and killing five cattle, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the Invercargill goal. His Honor intimated he would recommend the Government to exercise his power of committing the prisoner to in industrial school if he deemed it advisable. —' HORSE-BREAKING ACCIDENT. Invercargill, November 30. John Marshall, a shepherd employed on Mount Linton station; was admitted to the hospital suffering from a broken leg. He had been breaking in a young horse, which had reared and fallen on him. After the accident he had to he brought iifty-one miles by motor car before he received medical attention. A FOREIGNER’S SUICIDE, Uargaville, November 30. A suicide by shooting in the left .ung of Frank Pavlovich, a native Her.egovinian at Mangawhare on Sat--11 day night produced somewhat sen. iutional evidence at the inquest this norning. It appears that Britishers chased the deceased on WednesJay, owing to his having, with another compatriot, obtained a county •oad contract. It is admitted that some unnaturalised so-called Aus-a-ians are working on various Croatian road contracts. A semi-disguis-ed feeling of enmity on the part oi Britishers here has been apparent since the gurndiggers have taken on other work. The police were instructed by the Coroner to inquire 'urther into the charges of threats by the Britishers, and the inquest was idjourned until to.morrow afternoon. There is also simmering discontent owing to foreigners being employed on the Kaihn railway extension works.

DEATH ON A RAILWAY. Palmerston N., December 1. About 8 p.m. yesterday, near Whakaronga, the train from Dannevdrke ran over a man lying on the line. Eight trucks passed over him md literally cut him to )>ieees. Letters found in the pockets showed that he was a surfaceman' residing at Ashhurst, named Patrick O’Oonnor. who had been on holiday leave at Hie Pei 1 ding races. He has relatives at Daimevirko and Hastings.