TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 295, 19 June 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ir&B FNBB AMOCIATIOH.J Auckland, June 19. At the inquest on Harry Elder, house painter, who was killed by a tram, the jury found a verdict oi accidental death, attaching no blame but recommending that each car should carry two jacks, and that inotormen and conductors be instructed in their use for lifting cars. In the present case - there was considerable aelay in getting Mr Elder's body horn beneath the car. . Mr Frank Lawry addressed hjs constituents at Parnell last night. Votes ot thanks and confidence to Mr Lawry, and confidence in the Government, were passed. The scow Curlew, northward bound, is ashore on the coast near Tiritiri, but is reported to be quite safe. A bUanier lias been despatched to tow her off the beach. There is an abnormal epidemic of sickness among children, measles, ' whooping cough, and chicken pock having reduced the school attendance s> much that teachers whose salaries are based on the average attendance will suffer severely. Over three hun-oi-ed ohildren are absent from the Mount Eden school, nearly half the a- wage attendance. The school has been closed. Masterton. June 19. On March 31 the total arrears of j gas accounts for two years amounted to £27 3s, which has since been rediced to £7 — a satisfactory result, when last year's revenue, approximating £5500, is taken into consideration. Dunedin, June 19. A four-roomed wooden house m South Dunedin. owned and occupied by Arthur Powiett. was burned down at three o'clock this morning. The svpposed cause is that cfotbes wore left drying in the kitchen. The insurance, in the South British, is £200 on the house, and £75 on the furniture. The Mayor has received an indigi.nnt letter from a well-known citizen, protesting against Larnack Castle being used as a criminal mental hospital, on the ground that the place is within a stone's throw cf Broadway, the most popular seaside resort in the summer months. Napier, June 18. L. C. McLachlan leaves Napier for Auckland on Friday next to fulfil his match with Day on Saturday, 29th. McLachlan is in good training, and feels confident of turning the tables on his opponent and winning the two shorter distances. Dunuedin, June 18. The Inspector of Awards has filed with the Clerk of Awards for the Otago and Southland district 54 applications in which Oamaru employers and employees are concerned for the enforcement of the carpenters' and joiners' award. Tht Rev. G. B. Nicholls, the well known temperance advocate, leaves to-morrow for Sydney, having been engaged by the New South Wales Alliance to take part in the campaign in connection with the local option, toll in August. — — ..^Nelson, June 18. The Nelson Poultry has decided to hold an egg-laying competition next year, commencing on April Ist. There are to be fifty pens, and the site of the competition will be Sunnyholm, Stoke. The competition is to be a test of earlyhatched puflets, of using covered sheds, hut no grass runs, and also a test of the Hogan system of selecting layers and non- layers. All birds are to be pure bred, not more than 12 or under 6 months old. WooihiHe, June 19. The business of S. Bolton, who re- , oently acquired that of the North lalond Bacon Co., has been amalgamated with Dimock and Co., of Wellington, who will carry .it on. Tha Woodville works are to be continued for the present. Wellington, June ,19. The question of extending the ramifications of the National Defence League of New Zealand was discussed at a meeting last night. It was decided to hold a public meeting at an early date to consider the formation of ft branch of the League in Wellington, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements.