DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2269, 14 August 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 13. At the conclusion of a case at tho Police Court this afternoon, in which a- young man was charged with the theft of a letter containing two postal notes and 8s in stamps, belonging to his late employer, Mr. Clayton (one of the presiding Justices) commented upon the small salary which the accused had been receiving. Addressing the employer, ho remarked, QYou employed this young man at £1 per week, expecting him to keep himself respectable and tofind himself. The Bench considers that it is not right of a respectable tradesman to employ a young man. at such a wage and expect him to be honest. It is out of all reason.” WELLINGTON, August 13. The following is Captain Edwin’s weather forecast to 3. p.m. to-mor-row: —Moderate to strong easterly winds north of New Plymouth and Napier, northerly thence southwards, and fine weather generally. Tho importation into Queensland is prohibited of the following plants: Potatoes from New Zealand and all other countries in which the d : sease caused by phytophthora infestans. exists; plants, or portions of plants, of all and every species of vitis from New Zealand and all other countries in which phylloxera vastatrix R known to ex'st.. INVERCARGILL, August 13. The Arbitration Court was occupied all dav hearing the employers’ evidence in the sawmillers’ case. The Court expects to conclude to-morrow in time to catch the afternoon’s exorevs for north. , The Hospital and .Charitable. Aid Board to-dav received a report, forwarded by the Inspector-General of an Inspector under the Infant- Lite Hospitals, in which Miss Petrimant. Protection Act, 1907, made a strong criticism of tho sare of children at the Board’s Lome farm home, and recommended the appointment of a trained nurse. Reports were, also received from two doctors and the matron disposing of the Inspectors allegations, and a legal opinion from Messrs Hall. Stout and Lillicra** stated that the Home was not within the scope of tho Act of last year. It. w is decided to forward those reports and opinion to I)r. \ alintino.