TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1477, 27 April 1911, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PEE P-EEI ASSOniATION.) PENMAN THE DRAUGHTS CHAM- * ■-'; PION. 'Dunedin, April 27. The draughts championship tournament concluded to-night - when Penman defeated Hilliker. ; Penman-wine the Australasian and N.Z. championship titles, £20 arid, a'silver cup attached to.the-N.Z. title. He has won the cup twice, and it-becomes his property. Hilliker takes second' prize (£l2), and Brodio third (£8). PROGRESSIVE WANGANUI. Wanganui, April 26. A large crowd waited for four hours to hear tho declaration of the poll on a proposal to raise a loan ot „II,oUU to build a traffic bridge across the river between the present bridge and the Aramoho railway bridge. : It was carried by an overwhelming majority. Wanganui East carried loan proposals for trams, bridge and road W ° RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD. Timaru, April 26. The railway appeal board sat here to-day to hear an appeal by T. J. Fowler, porter, discharged as medically unfit and'refused a pension of £4 •i year provided by superannuation, he having been a contributor to/the. fund. The Department took the stand that Fowler was a probationer entitled to only a refund of the' contributions. According to the evidence, he was m good health when he-joined the serVl Mr T. C. Watson, for the appellant contended that he was not a probationer, and that being able to do .light work tlie "retirement was not justified, but being retired, he was entitled to a pension. Judge Haselden- said this was the first case of the kind he- had heard. The point was interesting, and he would- reserve'his decision. A THAMES MYSTERY. Thames, April 26. The body of a middle-aged man was found in the Thames River near Kopu last night. The, body, which was brought to the Thames and placed in the- morgue, has not been identified, so .far. A strange circumstance is that no-one is-reported missing, though the body niust have been m the water many days. POISONED BY PHOSPHORUS. Auckland, April' 26. A young woman, Iran Jansen, who was admitted to the Public Hospital yesterday ■ suffering from phosphorus poisoning, died to-day. The deceased was a resident of Reynolds Street Freeman's Bay, and how she took tiie poison—accidentally or otherwise—Has not been made clear. An inquest wiU be held to-morrow morning.AN INTERNATIONAL FAIR. ' Auckland, April. 26. To hold an international fair in Auckland two yoars hence, an exhibition bigger than any yet held in New Zealand, is the hope and ambition ot certain loading citizens of this city. Already tho Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Provincial Industrial Association, has gone into tho matter, and tho president of the former institution, Mr Leo Myers, interviewed today, outllined an interesting scheme indicating on what lines tho exposition should run. Mr Myerfi said the Council of the Chamber of Commerce felt that the time had now arrived when another exhibition should bo hold in Auckland. Tho first siigges{\ion had been to make tho exhibition coincident with the completion of the Panama Canal, and thus manifest New Zealand's interest m the culminating of ono oi the most ambitious engineering schemes the worlds has over witnessed, and one that it was goner-ally believed would play no unimportant part in ihe future commercial development of this Dominion. Further consideration, however, had convinced many of those interested that tho more opportune time would be 1913, or about two years hence, a period sufficiently long from the inception of the scheme to enable its sponsors to do justice to it. The educational value of such an exhibition,-Mr Myers pointed out, could not bo overestimated.