Dominion News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 3, 5 September 1923, Page 6

Dominion News

bCTOCENARIAN IN DISTRESS. Per Press Association. , .. Christth.uveh, September 5. A man aged eighty-five, who applied for help from the Mayor's blanket committee, is said to have married .a woman fifty years younger 'than ..hiinself. The. .committee declined* the, amplication *on the ground that "some; of,-his twenty-seven children .should, come to his aid. MINERS' CO-SLOW POLICY. Greynmuth >; September. •!>. The ,mine at Kewanui is idle, to-, day. The hold-up was caused. by truckers who refused to walk. The dispute arose. as follows: ; The mini' manager on .Monday placed, two on coal, owing to.so many of them being unemployed. These truckers accepted the, , change .'.of work without objection, but yesterday they did not .start work. This morning, the remainder of !the. truck-.' er's refused to start, claiming, that the manager's action was .wrong, f( apjl that two other truckers should,.have been given the work.

'lt is understood a conference at Eeefton on Saturday betjvjeen the miners' delegates* and the owners' representatives has unsuccssful, and that go-slow will be put in operation generally! YOUNG CRIMINAL CAREER. I ■ ■■ " I' >' __ ~. Auckland,, September' 5. ■ - At the Supreme Court man admitted he had isome difficulty in dealing with the case of Frank Bailer, .who, though only 2jl years of age, had followed a ..criminal career s,ince'.l9l7., Heohad. escaped from custody while serying a sentence of five'* years' reformative . treatment, getting put of Mount FJden Jgaol on Jamiary 21st, and subsequently breaking and entering store at Whakatane. Accused. hud nua lifted to be. declared a habitual criminal, but His Honor did not . take this drastic course, and sentenced Bailer, to three years' hard" labour for breaking and entering, and que year for escaping from custody,. |he semtences to be/ couciurent. Hi

,A TIfE GOLDEN CASKET." Auckland, September, 5. -Tt.the Police Court a professional' boxer* and Charles Monier, his trainer, were .charged with promoting . a ü bogus !• lottery known fts j -{Vttie .Golden Casket'; consultation" on,-the Grand National f .» ed that there had been; a. conspiracy between accuse:!;, who had taken down' people ,|or , some hundreds! 'They had distributed books through-' ,out. New Zealand. It is understood ;that one of them intended to leave) for Australia to-morrow, taking the money with him. He asked for., a, remand and substantial bail. Accused were remanded on bail of £3OO each, Smith's bail wan immediately supplied. - ? ~