DOMINIOS NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2057, 21 May 1909, Page 5

DOMINIOS NEWS.

DEATH OF AN OLD IDENTITY. (Per Press Association.) WAIROA, Alay '2O. Th,v death k reported at Opoutama of E. D. Bendal 1, aged 73, brother of Captain Bendal!. Wellington. Deceased arrived here in the seventies, and engaged in storekeeping at Nuhaka. He has been retired for a good many veais, leading a cpiiet lile at Opoutaina. ALLEGED FRAUD. NEW PLYMOUTH. May 20. '« R. G. Patterson, who was arrested here yesterday on a warrant from Dunne vir'ke, was remanded toi that ton u by Mr Fitzherbert, S.M., this morning, on a charge of fraud, supposed to be iu connection with a sawmill business.

A WESTPORT STRIKE. WESTPORT, .May 20. Seventy men employed on the steamer Taviuni in launching operations discontinued work. They are paid Is 3d pci hour, and demanded Is (id, owing to having to work in water, and other unusual inconveuieueos. The increase was refused. THE MINISTER FOR RAILWAYS. The Hon. J. A. Millar is inspecting the local railway to-day. HORSE STEALING. OAMARIT. May 20. Joe Sweeney pleaded guilty to a charge of lmrse-stealing, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, by Mr Hutcheson, S.M. COMPENSATION FROM TRAM COMPANY.

DUNEDIN, May 20. In the Supreme Court • Margaret Clough was awarded £l5O against the Kaikorai Tram Company for injuries alleged to have been caused by negligence. It was claimed by plaintiff, who is seventy years of age, that when in the act of alighting from the car defendants’ servants in charge of the car negligently caused, it to move on, whereby she was thrown and seriously injured, having her leg broicen.

NEW PLYMOUTH OIL. 0 , NEW PLYMOUTH. May 20. Pumping operations at the Taranaki Petroleum Company’s No. 2 well continue satisfactory, yielding an average of ten or twelve barrels of pure od daily. Boring operations are likely to be/ commenced, shortly in l the Mokau district. • i