NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

KILLED BY A COW. By Tolegrnph— Press Association. HAWERA, November 18. John Kenealy, aged 40 years, a farmer at Otakeho, while milking yesterday, was killed by a kick on the head from a cow. VI ET ARMIS. HOW SHARPERS WERE DEFEATED. AUCKLAND, November 18. "Thugs" and pugilists, who make up the staff of a gambling den in Auckland, find a fat living. Every hour the manager collects a shilling as gas money from every person on the premises, and lucky players are compelled to hand over a fair percentage of their winnings. These sometimes amount to large sums. The losers do not always take their misfortunes quietly. A young man, who found at the end of an all-night game that he had been relieved of a large sum, is paid to have made such good play with a six shooter that he was able to leave at 6 o'clock in the morning with the bulk of his money refunded.

CHRISTCHURCH SUPREME COURT, CHRISTCHURCH, November 18. At the Supreme Court, Martha Tainui, a young Maori woman, Was charged with being an habitual criminal. She has 37 convictions against her for theft, forgery and false pretences, and was sent to a reformatry under tha Habitual Criminals' Act. William Allison, for breaking and entering and attempting a criminal offence, was sentenced to 5 years' hard labour. A youth named Wm. Fred. BorJand was committed for breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, but sentence was deferred till Wednesday. ' , .. David Llewellyn Moore, who was charged with having discharged a shot gun at his wife with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was convicted of common assault and sentenced td three months'"imprisonment. Edward Mills, Joseph Francis Donnelly and Harry Witte were convicted of assaulting and robbing Wm. Wal'ton, of Martinborough, Wairarapa, during Carnival week. Donnelly was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and the other two to two years' each.

DEATH OF TE WHITI. HAWERA, November 18. Te Whiti, the celebrated Maori chief died at Parihaka this morning, aged 78 years. He had been ailing some t r me. FARM LABOURERS' DISPUTE. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. Mb r 18. The hearing of the farm labourers' dispute by the Conciliation Board commenced this morning. Evidence was given in support of the Union's demands, and the dispute was adjourned till to-morrow when 'additional evidence will be given. 1!} rt hearing' is expected to be a protracted one.

ARBITRATION COURT REPRESENTATIVES. WELLINGTON, November 18. The nomination papers in connection with the election 6*. a representative of the workers on the Abitratio'n Court, show that Mr McCullough, who was until recently a tinsmith in the railway workshops at Addington, and whose name has been much in evidence of late on account of the circumstances of hia retirement from the public service, has secured a majority of the nominations of the trades unions throughout the dominion. The question of appointing him to the position (at present held by Mr Robert Slater), in accordance with the recommendation of a majority of the unions, is nowunder the consideration of the Minister for Labour. Mr Samuel Brown, of Wellington, the present representative of the employers on the court, was the only person nominated for that position for the ensuing term. Mr W. A. Pryor, general secretary of the Employers' Federation of New Zealand, has been nominated as the deputy representative of the employers. As there was no other nomination he will of course be elected.

SUDDEN DEATH. NELSON, November 18. An elderly lady, named Mrs Eliza Pidgeon, dropped dead in Selwyn Place, this ■ afternoon, the cause of death being heart failure. The deceased was a very old resident of the city.