GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[MIESS ASSOCIATION.] TIMARU, This Day. An elderly nian named Archibald M'Fie fell from the railway biidge here hist Monday night, while under the influence of drink, and died in the hospital this morning. The medical evidence at the inquest showed that death would not have resulted from the fall if -deceased had been in a normally healthy condition. INVERCARGILL; This Day. A purse of sovereigns was presented to Sergt. Bowden, on behalf of his wife, by the citizens on the eve of his departure for Feilding, .vhero he takes charge. ■ HOKITIKA, This Day. James Davidson, aged 72, an old pioneer of the Wesb Coast, was found ded in bed at Stafford this morning ' He had been ailing for some little time past. An old man named Smith, who cams out of" the hospital yesterday, was seen sitting on the protection works to-day. Later the body was seen floating in the river, but before it could be reached it disappeared and has not yet been recovered. DUNEDIN, This Day. George Rose, the son of a small grazing runholder at Waitahuna, died from the effects of exposure and exhaustion. He was overtaken by a snowstorm on the Waitahuna heights while rabbiting. In the year 1878 (remarks the Otago Daily Times) a fairly well-to-do married man and his wife had a little disc greement, and he left his* home and family of four or five sons and daughters. He was heard of for two years, and then came a rumour of his death. The wife advertised extensively for him, but got no reply. Twelve yeais ago she remarried. Her second husband lived for about six years, and then passed away. Recently one of her sobs, who is married and has a family, removed to another part of New Zealand, and in a email township heard of an elderly man bearing his own name. He called on him out of curiosity, and found* he was his own father. He immediotely telegraphed to his mother, who at once left her home and travelled to sac her first husband. The result is a reconciliation, the wife disposing of her Southland property and proceeding to end her days with her first love. In regard to the supersession of Sir Ro bert Hart in the control of the Chinese Maritime Customs service by Tich Liang, President of the Board of Revenue, and Tong Shao Yih, the China Gazette has made some severe remarks. "In plain language," it says, "the death knell of the Imperial Maritime Customs service has been rung unless the Powers take immedi ate action, and threaten to land troop* at every strategic point along the Chinese coastline. For months we have been vainly writing and pointing out that Japan's one liope lias been to stir up trouble in China — that has been the one end ever since Baron Komura visited Pekin." The paper says that the startling change in the superintendence of the Customs is the outcome of a. new policy, and that the Jjpjnese, feeling safe in the knowledge that the Anglo- Japanese treaty, "extorted from a discredited British Miuistry," will save them no matter what they do, can be counted on to play a desperatejjame. "We cannot help feeling that it is the beginning of the end of those days when the white's man's genius prevented the yellow races from daring to place themselves on the same footing as that occupied by Aryan peoples," is the conclusion of the Gazette. The story of a millionaire wandering penniless about the streets of New York with cheques and drafts for thousands in his pocket will not be repeatted after Ist May. After that date the first bank opened all day and all night for the re-, ceipt or payment of money began busi-' nefcs in that city. Instead of the traditional banking hours, from 10 to 3, the night and day bank's sign reads "Never closed." Three shiftb of clerks, each working eight hours, make financial transactions at 2 o'clock in the morning as easy as at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Banks all over the country have visitors' money order blanks or cheques on the Night and Day Bank for the convenience of travellers tb or through New York. These cheques carry their own identification with them, so there is no difficulty on that score. The whole country has been divided into six sections, the cheques for each having been of a different colour, and each bank having its own serial number, in order to facilitate quick references ( from whatever point a draft may be presented. ' Messrs. J. H. Bothuno and Co. advertise three auction sales to tako place at thoir rooms, Featherston-street, during the: coming week. On Monday, at 2 p.m., they will sell a collection of household furniture, removed for convenience of sale. On Wednesday, at 2.30 p.m.. thoy will submit a property in South Kiibirnio, having a frontago of 49ft lOih to Duncan, terrace by a depth erf 120 ft, with now onestory residence of six rooms and conveniences ; section No. 64, Trellissick Estate, Crofton, containing lrd. 33p0r., and having a double frontage of 269 ft to Trellissick Park-road, and suitable for tho erection of two or more residences ; . Mr. Avery'a home at Khandallah, tho land comprising five-eighths of an aero, with seven and a half chains frontage to Station and Jubilee roads, tho dwelling contains six largo rooms, with modern improvements. Messrs. Bethuno and Co. also publish a now list of frochold properties for sale. A dividend in tho New Zealand and River Plato Land Mortgage Company for tho six months ended 30th April, 1006, at the rato of 7 per cent, per annum will bo payable on the 2nd prox. Tho transfer book* of the company will be closed from the 23rd to 30th inst. Messrs. George Thomas and Co. call attention to an auction sale of crockory to be held on Wednesday, 20th Juno, at 11 o'clock sharp. Full particular* appear, in