DOMINION NEWS.
Press Association. NAPIER, May 29. Robert Rowland Durrani, a wellknown Napier resident and one of the oldest engine-drivers on the Government railways, is dead. Jlo drove the mail train as usual on Thursday ,[mt died in his bed at about 3 o’clock this morning, probably from' heart disease, lie was in his 58tli year. Tho Conciliation Board sat to-day to consider tho painters and decorators’ dispute, and as a result of the conference, tho employees and employers of tlio Napier and Hastings district camo to an agreement, including tho minimum wage of Is 3d per hour and preference to unionists.
GREYMOUTH, May 29. Tlio byo-clcction lor a councillor of tho Borough of Greymo.uth caused through an extraordinary vacancy was hold to-day and resulted as follows: James Kerr 898, James Beirne 415, Majority for Kerr 483.
DUNEDIN, May 29. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Chun Dun was found guilty of assaulting All Koo and was lined £lB. At the Polico Court to-day Erickson, charged with receiving four copper boilers knowing them to have been stolen, was committed for trial. Tho prosecution alleged that the boys stole the boilers and sold them to accused..
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 3
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194DOMINION NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 3
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