TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 134, 5 December 1906, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Masterton, Tuesday. There was a serious flood in the district last night, and considerable damage was done to the crops by the flood. It is reported that numbers of stock have been drowned. Invercargill, Tuesday. Among the passengers by the Warriinoo was the Chinese Commissioner, Hwang Hou Cheng, who has come to enquire into "the condition of the Chinese in the colonies. Consulates are to be established by Cheng to look after the interests of his countrymen. The Commissioner remarked to a Southland Times reporter that China was the natural market for many of the staple products of Australia and New Zealand. Frj.a us Ch'na could take unlimited tiuantities of timber, butter and m^at Asked whether his object was to encuire whether <■'• ere was an out\it in the colonies for China's surplus population, the Commissioner said the question was not one that he could not answer. ■ Wellington, December 4. The appeal in the tram ticket lottery case has been dismissed. Tait, the appellant, had secured from the City Corporation the right to dispose of the privilege of advertising on the tram tickets, and he advertised in the Wellington newspapers that he would in each month pay £6 on production to him of tickets bearing certain numbers, which he would at the end of the month call for. The Magistrate held that this was a lottery, and Tait appealed. The Chief Justice upheld the Magistrate's decision. It is understood that negotiations between the City Council and the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate, by which the former takes over the company's plant, have been definitely settled at £150,000. A fireman and seaman of the steamer Rotomahana were each fined r >: and 2s 9d costs, under the Shipping and Seaman's Act, for damaging the ship's stores by throwing overboard a certain amount of meat supplied them for dinner. No complaint had been made against the quality of the meat, but the company had issued instructions that what portion of joints were not eaten must be returned. An improvement has been effected in the old style of controlling milk, j "Dr. Mason has received instructions from the Minister that the Agricultural Department will control everything in the byre. From that point once milk goes outside the dairy it comes under the dominion of the Health Department, which has authority over cans, carts, railage, and everything else connected with milk, till it reaches the consumer. As section 346 of the Municipal Corporations Act has not been repealed, the local authorities have the same measure of control that they exercised formerly. This agreement only concerns milk and meat consumed in the colony. It has nothing to do with goods exported. Auckland, December 4. A drowning accident occurred last night at the entrance to the Matakara River. While the Settlers' Steamship Company's steamer Kotiti was proceeding to Matakana wharf, t> deck boy named Charles Clarke fell over board, and his body had not been recovered at a late hour last ' night. The deceased was 18 years of age.