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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1910, Page 8

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LATEST TELEGBAMS. it&ESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Christchurch -tompetitions were continued to-day. Ta the Men's Shakespearean recitations there were twenty entries. Messrs.. Devereaux, Hansard, and Aitken (Christchurch) and Shorney (Wellington) were named to appear in the final in the evening. ■ . In the piano solo (open), nine entries •were received. Misses Mooto (2) Dunedin) and Curlet.t (Christchurch) were recalled for the final. . HURRICANE AT THE- ISLANDS". ' AUCKLAND, This Day. News by the Tofua from the Islands states that Haapai and Niafoou, in the Tonga group, were visited by a hurricane on 7th May. At Haapai it lasted fi\o hours. Plantations suffered severely and nil the bananas were levelled to the ground. The fruit was picked as it lay and was shipped to Auckland, arriving in good condition. Particulars of the damage at Niafoou are not available, but ib is understood the greater part of ihe coconut crop was destroyed. . SILTING COMMISSION. AUCKLAND, This Day. When the Ohincmuri Silting Commis sion resumed to-day, the chairman said the request for an adjournment could not be granted. He intimated that the commission would leave for Thames to-mor-row and. occupy the rest of the week inspecting the two rivers affected. The taking of evidence will commence at Pa«roa on Monday. BUKNHAM ESCAPEES IN TROUBLE. BLENHEIM, This Day. Albert William Foote and Henry Gordon, two escapees from Burnham Industrial School, who were arrested in the Pelorus district at the' end of last week, appeared in the local Magistrate'. 1 - Court to-day charged with theft of bicycles. Both pleaded, guilty, and were committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. FIRE BOARD LOAN. 1 DUNEDIN, This Day. The whole of the Fire Board's loan of £10,000 at 4£ r*r ceut. has been fully subscribed locally. VACCINATION. AWAITINQ A EEPOPvT. ' CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. It was anticipated that -the vaccination controversy would be re-opened today, when 36 informations against parents who had failed to have their children vaccinated were set down for hearing However, when the cases were called on, it was found that instructions had been given by the Department of Health that an application be made for an adjournment sine die pending receipt by the Minister of a report on the whole question of vaccination, which was now in preparation. In six cases summonses had not been served, in eight the doctors' certificates were presented, and the remaining 22 were adjourned. Counsel for one of the defendants objected to an adjournment. He said he was prepared to pay a fine, and wanted tho Magistrate to make an order requiring him to have his child vaccinated. SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE. ,- DUNEpIN, T«s Day. Mr. Triggs,' Conciliation Commissioner, sat this morning to hear the slaughtermen's dispute. After lunch he announced that as a lesult of the conference a satisfactory agreement had been arrived at. FOUND DEAD IN BED. ' DUNEDIN, This Day. Charles George Peiibon. aged 61. living with his wife and family in Frederick.street, was found dead in bed las>t night. He had been ailing a few days.