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1 I SCALDED TO DEATH. \ WELLINGTON, this da£. Emily Jeffery, aged 19 months, who 1 was severely scalded at her parents' residence last Monday, died in the Hospital this morning. ME. MASSEY IN THE SOUTH. CHEISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. Massey arrived in Christehurch this morning. He will attend the banquet to Mr. C. A. 0. Hardy, at Methven, to-night. . He said lie was not giving interviews at present, and did not propose to deliver anything more than an after-dinner speech to-night. NAPIER RAILWAY NEEDS. NAPIER, this day. Mr. J. V. Brown, M.P., interviewed the Son. Mr Macdonald, Minister for Public • 'Works, and urged a greater expedition in the prosecution or the' work of the East Coast railway. Mr. Brown pointed 1 out that at the present rate of progress it would probably he ten years before the first section was completed. The Minister promised to give the matter his attention. Mr. Brown also urged thenecessity of speeding, tip the express train between Napier and Wellington, by" cutting out small stopping places. Mr. Macdonald said; he recognised the-need for this. DAIRY FACTORY BURNED. '"*"" DUNEDLN, thia day. A dairy factory at Batanui, owned by Daniel Oldham, was destroyed by fire this morning. The building was insured for £475, and contents for £175—both in the Royal Insurance Company.SHEARERS AND REGISTRATION. WELLINGTON, this day. At the third annual conference of the New Zealand Shearers and Wootahed Employees' Association to-day, representing about 4SOQ workers, it wa* decided to take a ballot next shearing season as to whether the union should cancel its registration under gjg Arbitra- : tion Act. ! " ABBTTBiATION AWtAiBDe. . /« WELLINGTON, this day. J The award of the Arbitration Court in ' the .woollen mil) dispute is largely based on the Canterbury award in the same' trade. A week's work consists of 48 hours and preference is granted to unionists at the present rate, and for pieces work to continue. The Court's fcward in the plumbers' dispute declined to increase the minimum to 1/6 an hour as the union had not advanced anythingito justify any such alteration. 1 J i