Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3871, 9 May 1906, Page 3

Telegrams.

Wellington, May 8.

The Railway Department has held inquiries into two accidents on Easter Monday. In connection with the train being derailedat Eketabona through the points having been unlocked, Porters Morton and Porter are to be dismissed, and the stationmaster will be severely punished for failing to see that the points were locked before the signal was lowered for the train to enter the station. Porter Harney is to be dismissed owing to the derailing of the train at Waitotara.

This day.

Yesterday between thirty and forty navvies and labourers arrived from London by the Tongariro, believing they were under contract to work for the Government, but the Government’s officials bad no cognisance of the matter. Mr J. Mackay, of the Labour Department, says that all the men who arrived by the Tongariro, and who have applied for work on the railways, have been fixed np, and navvies to the number of thirty-one will leave for OLakonc by this morning’s train. Farm and other labourers who arrived by the same steamer be hopes to find employment for within the next day or two. The department had had no notice of the coming of these men. The supposition is that the advice was coming through by the mail that was stuck up at San Francisco through the recent disaster. At the Supreme Court yesterday, a respectably-attired man named David Elliott pleaded not guilty to a charge of having stolen sixteen cases of .fruit from his employer, Joseph Norman, at Woodville, on February 16th last. Accused was employed by Norman to hawk fruit, and went to Woodville with Norman’s son and another man, and sixteen oases were alleged to be unaccounted for. The defence was that Norman and accused were partners, and that the fruit on this occasion was over-ripe, and had to be “re-picked” when it arrived at Woodville, and when accused left ifaat place there were only fourteen oases of good fruit left. Some of these be sold in the ordinary way of business, and the rest he sent to Masterton, expecting that when Norman and he had finished they would divide their profits, as they bad done before. Accused was found “not guilty.” Francis Waddell was found guilty of assault on Samuel Gilmer and remanded for sentence.