DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143771, 20 April 1912, Page 3

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

A STABBING CASE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 19. A man mimed Harry Sandqw was stabbed in a hotel bar tnis evening, receiving superficial wounds in the neck, nose and ear. His assailant escaped. STRIKE AT BRICK WORKS. DUNEDIN, April I'9. Trouble is tibcatened at C. (and W. Gore’s brick works at Wingalui over the question of wages. The men ceased worn to-day and demanded that their wages should be increase;.! by Is per day all round. At present the boys receive 6s to 7s per day, and labourers Bs. A deputation from the men waited on the employers, mid laid their grievances before them, giving them till noon to-morrow to consider tne matter. The men are assuming work in the meantime. Tho employers offered an advance of 6d per clay, but this was. refused. It is understood that if the demand is not acceded to the men will cease work to-morrow. About 20 hands are involved. Tho employees were formerly working under ail award which expired about 18 months ago, but the union has since'been dissolved. RAILWAYMEN CHARGED. DUNEDIN, April 19. At Blacks to-day, Stanley Charles Hiigendorf was charged witn stealing£4o, and Michael Begley with receiving .£2O, the property of the''Postal Department. Hiigendorf pleaded guftty and was committed for sentence, ■ but Begley pleaded not guilty and was committed lor trial. Loth were admitted io bail in their own recognisance of £75 each and two sureties oi a similar amount. A BOY’S SUICIDE. ' NAPIER, April 20. At tho inquest on the lad Charles Alexander Pullar, who absconded from Wcraroa training larm and hanged himself in the police cell, the evidence of linj-linsoi!, master of the farm,-wont' to show that deceased was of a peculiar temperament. He had been twice punished at the larm, but not severely. Tho jury rcturued-s) verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of the boy's mind. WARSHIP BERTHED' AT NAPIER. NAPIER, April 20. H.M.S. Encounter, on her arrival yesterday, berthed at. the breakwater. This is the first occasion of a warship tying up at the wharf here. A STABBING CASE. WELLINGTON, April 20. Last evening, in the street, a, man named Herman Henry Ritter, better known in boxing and wrestling circles as Harry Sandbw, was stabbed by another man in the neck, ear, and nose after a quarrel. The wounds are not regarded as serious. <A man named John Daniel O’Neill, arrested on the charge of stabbing Ratter, appeared before the court to-day and was remanded till Wednesday next.