DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143574, 12 August 1911, Page 3

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

SUICIDE AT ASHBURTON* Per Press Association. ' ASHBURTON, August 12. Thomas Mummery, aged 2V, a single man, committed suicide this morning by , shooting himself .in the head witli a revolver. The deed was apparently premeditated, as a note was left authorising his brother to collect his wages. ; THE TRAMWAY UNION. ; AUCKLAND, August 12. The Auckland, Tramway Union “has resolved, by 279 votes to 11, to federate with the New Zealand Federation of Labour and FutAfreA from the Trade* and Labour Council, which, it is: understood, is a preliminary, to the ’'cancellation’of 1 registration under the Arbitration Act. | ~ /SOME HASTINGS cases; t , . . -HASTINGS, -iuguS il. • , At the Magistrate’s. Court, 1 Albert Ernest Kearns, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to sixteen months’ imprison- * ment for failing to account for moneys collected on behalf of the Tribune, -Ltd. Cornelius Collins was fined- £lO,- m“ default three months’ imprisonment,', for - breach of a prohibition order. I’retlcrick Ewart; charged with cruelty’’ajid ill-treatiiig a horse, was committed’ for trial to the Supreme .Court. He nas allowed, £SO and two sureties of £25 , each. 7 ' BOOKMAKERS FINED. 7 ■-fi AUCKLAND, August 11. - At the Police Court to-day Jesse L‘ynu Cotton and .William -Gray were each fined £4O for having plied the calling - of bookmakers. Edward Chitham :and John Surtes, for a similar offence, were •fined £3O. THE BARQUE RONA. CHRISTCHURCH. August 11. Messrs. A. H. Turnbull and Co., owners of the barque Rona, received a telegram this morning from the harbourmaster at Hokianga - stating that a • barque was in sight from ' the. heads there, but that the wind was easterly and this would prevent hey from making port quickly. They consider that the vessel is the Rbna, -' --