ANGLO-COLONIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 138, 10 December 1908, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL.

NOTES FROM LONDON. COMPANY MEETING—LIQUIDATION AGREED UPON. BONELESS MEAT. SHIPPING CASE IN COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 30ch October. This afternoon at 5, London Wall Buildings, the tenth ordinary general meeting of the Nmv Zealand Agricultural Co. was held, Mr. J. G. Griffiths being in the chair. In moving the adoption of tho report, which was sent to New Zealand a mail or so ago, the chairman said they had now got to a condition when liquidation was the only necessary step to enable shareholders to receive the last amount of their capital. This did not >-epresent a batisfactory result for those who were in the original company. The whole of the ordinary 3apital in tho old company, over £600,000, had long since been lost, and tho .debenture-holders had only received £340,000 out of £540,000, or 63 per cent. When the present company was formed, it was estimated the properties were worth £178,000. They had actually realised £285,000.- This had only been done by not forcing sales. He moved the adoption of the report. This being agreed to, it was resolved to liquidate the company, the chairman saying he hoped a final distribution would take place in about six months. BONELESS MEAT AGAIN. In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr. Watt, M.P. for Glasgow, asked the president of Iho Local Government Board whether his attention had been called to the quantities of boneless meat which were being imported into this country from New Zealand and Australia ; if so, was he aware that much of it had bsen condemned by the local authorities, but that this condemnation was accompanied by a statement to the effect that it was impossible to examine every box and find out all the faulty , and whether, in these circum* stances, he would issue instructions forbidding meat in that form to be imported ? Mr. Burns said : "Considerable quantities of boneless meat are imported into this country from New Zealand and also some from Australia, but I am not aware that in recent months there lias been any exceptional condemnation of it in England and Wales, with which alone I am concerned in this mattsr ; or that tho condemnation has been accompanied by a statement to the effect mentioned. As regards the last part of the question, I may draw attention to the foreign meat regulations which I lately issued, and which will come into force on Ist January next. The regulations will have the effect ot preventing the importation for consumption in England and Wales of meat of the class referred to." NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CASE. On Tuesday and Wednesday last, in the Admiralty Court, the President (Sir Gorell Barnes) and two Elder Brethren of Trinity House were en gaged in an action brought by the owners of the steamer Highgate against the owners of the steamer Matatua. On the 18th March last, the Matatua was coming out of dry dock on the Tyne, and was being taken' to her moorings in the river to get up steam. She was lying across the river, when, it was alleged, she collided with the Highgate and two or three other boats. The collision was denied so far as the Matatua was concerned, and the defence was that the Highgate had started to pass the Matatua on the north side of the river first, and, being too late, tried to get under the stern. In doing this she fouled the other vessels. The court held that the Matatua was not to blame, and gave judgment for the defendants. The Matatua was in charge of a pilot when the affair occurred. FIRST CARNEGIE HERO. The first case approved by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commissioners is that of the widow and six children of Thos. Wright, who lost his life on tho very day that the letter announcing the bequest was read. Wright was employed at Baxter's chemical works, St. Helens. A piece of machinery had fallen into a well belonging to the United Alkali Company, containing waste sulphur liquor. Harry Jackson went ctown to recover it, was immediately overcome by foul gases, and collapsed at the bottom. Another man, named Maguire, made two attempts to rescue him, but he was beaten back by the gas, and escaped with difficulty. Others were waiting for ropes to be brought, but seeing Jackson struggling at the bottom, Wright exclaimed : "We cannot stand Here and see another man drown. We .can get him up before the rope comes. 1 ' Without a single precaution against the gas, he descended, and was lifting Jackson up when he collapsed. Then Peter Littler, with a towel in his mouth, went down with the ropes, and the two were drawn out, not without risk to Littler, who was left hanging in shaft of the well from a broken ladder. He scrambled out, however. Artificial respiration revived Jackson, but Wright was beyond aid. THE "ALL-RED" ROUTE. Sir Thomas H. C. Troubridge, Bart., contributes to the Evening Standard an article on the "All Red" Route, in which he discusses various matters relating to the subject He says :—"Arrangements have been entered into with a company ( now existing for the building and operating of train ferries across the Irish Channel, such as are now in operation in many places in Canada and the United States, also in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Siberia ; in fact, in most countries, except England. . . I Express trains will be run from London and all the principal towns in connection with the ferry boats. From tho experience of the train ferries in Denmark it is found that trade increases enormously when a train ferry service is established, the saving of two handlings, the prevention of breakages, and the saving of time taken in loading and unloading ships, all tending to reduce tho cost of transportation and increase the trade." Sir Thomas thinks Auckland, New Zealand, will be reached in twenty-two and a-half days from London, a saving on the present Suez Canal route of thirteen to fifteen days. The boat will then proceed, after a stop of five hours, to Sydney, which will be the terminus in Australia, reaching there with a saving of three to five days over the Suez route

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