SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 168, 29 July 1901, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Mr Edwards, organising secretary of the Liberal Federation, is seriously ill, and it is proposed to send him on a long sea trip to the Islands of tha Pacific. Funds are being raised to present him with a purse of sovereigns before his departure. The Chief Justice, sitting in the Bankruptcy Court, suspended for four months the discharge of Elizabeth White Wortly, a boardinghouse keeper, formerly of Hawera, and that of Eobt. Hornblow, auctioneer, for a month.

Frank King and Joseph Kerr, who temporarily escaped from custody a few days ago, were sentenced to six months imprisonment from the end of their present terms.

HAWERA, this day,

The date of the Egmoni. Agricultural and Pastoral Show has been fixed for 27th and 28th November.

NELSON, this day.

Mrs Benjamin Lusty, an old Richmond settler, who arrived here in 1812, died last evening, aped 78, WELLINGTON, this day. THE COMPANIES ACT. With a view to avoiding the recurrence of some of the mining scandals which have occurred during1 the past year, the Government are having inserted in Sir Joseph Ward's Companies Act now before the Legislative Council a clause preventing directors who have not paid their own calls from enforcing calls ' from erring shareholders.