DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2194, 19 May 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

Press Association. NAPIER, May 18. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Clarence Pryor Horne was charged with having committed perjury in evidence given by him in tho Magistrate’s Court at Napier on January 23rd, during the prosecution of Martin Johnson for arson, by stating that Johnson had told him on tlie night after the fire that he had lost a valuable gold watch in tlie fire. Mr. McCarthy, S.M.. held that there was not sufficient evidence uixm which to commit Horne for trial, and dismissed the information. After hearing the evidence of employees and employers here to-day in the Tailors’ dispute, the Conciliation Board adjourned, to sit at Masterton on t-lie 21st inst. Tho employers who gave evidence to-day attended upon subpoenas. , FEILDING, May 18. The premises of a local Chinese fauiulrynian were raided by the ponce last night. They found fourteen Chinese present playing a game alleged to be fan tan. Prosecutions will loll0"' WELLINGTON, May 18. In a reserved judgment in a case in which Howe, instructor of the technical school, was charged With assaultin'' a boy by beating him with a cane, Mr. Riddell, S.M., held there was an excess of punishment amounting to an assault, but not sufficient to warrant conviction against defendant. iho latter, however was ordered to pay tho costs of prosecution, £3 12s. OAMARU, May 18. Tho police on Saturday raided the premises of Riley Curran, hairdresser and tobacconist. No liquor was found, but it is understood a prosecution will follow. A firo this morning destroyed a four-roomed house in Thames Street, owned by -Mrs. France, and occupied by Thomas Hedges. Tho family was absent at the time of the outbreak. The house was insured for £IOO. in the Now Zealand office and there was £IOO on tlie furniture in tho South British. Nothing was saved. DUNEDIN, May 18. The Union Company has declared an interim dividend of Of per cent for tlio half-year ended March 31. The body of Robert Slattor, drowned in the collision at Otago Heads last month, was found near Maori Kaik this morning. INVERCARGILL, May 18. Win. McLeod, aged 16 years, son of a. settler at Caroline, while out shooting on Sunday, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun.