LATE SHIPPING BY TELEGRAPH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 8, 9 July 1912, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING BY TELEGRAPH.

• FRKMANTLE, 9tl> July. Arrived— Kamona, from New Zealand. ' .AUCKLAND, Oth July. Soiled— Victoria (3 p.m.), lor southern ports Passengers, for Wellington— Miu Manson, Mrs Mathias and child, Meß&rn. Jonos-, Sharplev, Pritchaid, Pollock, and Brown NAPIER, 9th July. Arrived— Monowai (9.40 a.m.), from Wellington. NEW PLYMOUTH, Oth July. Arrived— Corinna (11 a.m.), from Wellington. • LYTTELTON, 9fch July. Arrived— Kuirakt (1.5 p.m.), from Wellington PORT CHALMKRB, Oth July. Arrived— Schooner W, H. Talbot (1,10 p.m.) from Pugeb Sound . , _, , BLENHEIM, 9th July. Arrived— Blenheim (1.60 p.m.), from Wellington. ,_, « NELSON, Stti July. Sailed— Pateena (11.10 a.Ui.), for Plcton and Wellington.

In reference to the statement furnished to tho press by the Cost of Living Commission yesterday relative to tho complaint of Mr. G. George, Director of tho Auckland , Technical College, that the- report, of the evidence given by him in Aucklo-nd was so condensed as to give a quite inadequate idea of his statements, we have been asked to oxplain, In fairness to the shorthand writers who took the bulk of the evidence, that Mr. George's statement referred to evidence given in Auckland, and was not takeH in shorthand. Two cases in relation to the Public Trustee Act will come before the Court of Appeal to-morrow. On Friday the Court will deal with two Crown cases. A conference^ of representatives of freezing worksMs being held in Wellington to-day Mr. Edwin Tome, commercial traveller for Thomas Ballinger and Co., Ltd., who had a stroke last Wednesday morning, died this afternoon, at the age of fiftyeight years. He leaves a widow, two sons, and four daughters. A married sister is Mrs. Meadowcroft, Wellington. The late Mr. Toms was a nephew of Mrs. W. R. Williams. He had been fourteen years "on the road" for Thomas Ballinger and Co., and wa<s in the firm's employ some years before that. Several telegrams have reached the firm as late as this afternoou enquiring after Mr. Toms, who wai, so well known in hardware circles in both islands. There are between two hundred and three hundred employees at Petone Railway Workshops, many of them married men, who live in the city, and who use the train service to go to and from their work. Mr. M'Ewan, Mayor of- Petone, would like to see those families, or at least some of them, settle down in Petone, and he is convinced that the majority of them would do co if sufficient inducements were held out. "Now,** he says, "the Government own a gqeat deal of unoccupied land, which in its present state is unrateable. Well, I would like to see some steps taken by the Government to induce its employees to take up sections of this land on ceasy terms, promising to give them every assistance to build houses to suit themeelv€6." Mr. M'E wan thinks the scheme an excellent one, which would soon be taken advantage of. He will place it before the Government at the earliest opportunity. The Minister of Railways (Hon. A. M. Myers) has received the following letter from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, under date 7th July: — "1 am instructed by the Executive Council to advke you that ac a result of their interview with you recently they have decided to withdraw the petition which was placed before Parliament in 1911.— Signed, M. J. Mack, general eecretary.