LATE TELEGRAMS

Evening Star, Issue 17086, 3 July 1919, Page 8

LATE TELEGRAMS

The Chamber oE Commerce wired, to Sir James Allen re the railway coal ■ tV ra.ib"c of linuor. Considering the extremely serious commercial position .= u'.- to the non-railage of urgent essentials, including material ior soldiers -■■■ A workers' homes, would ask 'has the reinstatement ot liquor freights tho r;-uwa.l cf Cabinet?"—Wanganui telegram. A young woman named Roberta Gibson was committed for tii.il tins ..,-,„n' on a charge, of the murder ot her newly-born child, the body ot . found i:f a drawer at the hospital.—Waiigamu telegram. At the openinn- 0 f the conference of the New Zealand Labor party t-tio ..itionhl president'(Hon. 3, T. Paul) said that Labor now hnd.a great oppor- ; ~uty which might not occur again in the lifetime of the delegate*, solution of .the present difficulties, .including .that concernin. s coal, was the fitted to lie canie i Government would seriously dippointing the country, especially in the inland wganuwtheindustiicsanJ, Cf ™ ,^ c bc> rt , vi , ed 0 include such necessary towns, and askug that the SA ! to facilitate the necessary sped, being SSd to fo\- distribution amongst .settlers; that the carriage ol Uai^?iT«ot teZl. The chamber also passed a resolution viewing with eerwus concern the proposal to increase the railway ireights,—laJmeistoa