TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

THE CHRISTCHURCH BYELECTION. PROBABLE CANDIDATES. [ll TELEGRAPH— SIEOIAt TO TMS PCST.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The by-election in North Chrietchurch that has been made necessary by the death of Mr. T. E. Taylor is already becoming a topic of conversation. In. all probability the Prohibition Party will put a candidate into the 'field with a, not unreasonable expectation that the intense feeling aroused by the death of Mr. Taylor will spell success for a man who may claim in a sense to be the late member's nominee. Mr. J. M'Combs and Mr. L. M. Isitt are both mentioned in this connection. Mr. J, D. Half is said to be a possible Opposition candidate. His chances against either of these mentioned or against the fairly strong Labour mail wl»o may be in the field would bo poor. Public sympathy in Christchurch was with the late member in his controversy with the Leader of the Opposition, and of course the strong feeling that < already existed on that point is now intensified. In any case the Opposition candidate would have had a very difficult row to hoe ia Christehutch North. It ia not thought likely that the electorate will transfer its allegiance to the other party. [rosss ASS6MATION.3 BIG PRICES FOR EARLY POTATOES. DUNEDIN, 29th July. Some _of the earliest potatoes ever grown in the open hereabouts sold in Dunedin last week at a rate equal to £100 6s 8d per ton. They were grown by Mr, Challis, of the Peninsula, and the prices ranged from 9|d to lOfd per , Ib. DUNEDIN TRAWLERS' AWARD. DUNEDIN, 30th July. At the Magistrate's Court on Saturday Air. Haseldefl heard a case in which the Inspector of Awards sued the Uneeda Tr&wliftg Company for £10 ac penalty for Alleged breach of the Dunedin trawlers' award in employing four men for more than Seventy hours during the week ended 12th May, and failing to pay the prescribed overtime rates. The men were employed on the Waitangi, and were paid for seventy hours that week, it being maintained by the Labour Department that they were entitled to be paid for seventy-two hours. During the week it was foggy weather, which curtailed trawling, Mr, J. C. Stephens, for the defence, said thai in the exigencies of such a- business a wide interpretatioft eflould bo giVeiv to the clause, allowing time to be deducted in special circumstances, stich as breakdown of machinery, during which men would be idle, and it might happen that the weather would prevent any trawling being done for days in a week, yet the men were paid for the whole week. Tlie evidence showed that during the week a. net was lost, ahd the vessel got ashore for a time at Pulling Point. The fia-se stands partly heard. THE ACCIDENT TO THE HAUROTO. NAPIER, 30th July. Men a.re continuously employed in effecting repairs to the 'Hauroto. It is expected that they will be completed in time to enable her to resume running on Thursday next. I FIREWOOD GATHERER'S DEATH OAMARU, 30th July, Robert Black,_ aged twenty-four years, met hte death in a peculiar manner on Saturday. With another man he was out gathering firewood on the riverbed of^Kakanui. He climbed a large rock overhanging a deep pool in the river, and slipped off into the water. He grasped a long pole held out to him by his iftate, but when near the bank let. go. His mate went in and brought him out, but he ivas found to be dead, it is supposed from suoclt and stoppage of heart's action.