TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 766, 31 December 1908, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PBK PBSBB ASSOCIATION.] DISAPPEARED. Wellington, December 30. A Mangaweka man, Edward Peck, feft Mangaweka on horseback on Boxing night for his home three miles out. The horse, saddle ? and bridle were found on the roadside, about a mile from the township, the following morning. So far no tidings of the missing man have been received, although search parties have been hunting in the vicinity to-day. Peck was omployed as road oversoor by tho Eiwitea County Council. THE PREMIER. Wellington, December 30. Sir Joseph Ward left for the South to-night. CAPTAIN DROWNED. Auckland^ December Jl. . The Northern Steamship Company's steamer Ngatiawa went aground on the Opotiki bar. She is now higii mid <lry, and it is unlikely she will noiit till the spring tide next weeis. Captain Stein tell overboard and was arowued. DKOWN.KD i<±iOAl A DREDGE. Dunediu, December 31. John K/oiiuedy, single middle-aged uativo ot the islo of bkye, was drowned off the JuLatau dredge last night. The deceased and his mate, Peterson, were oiling machinery preparatory to starting work, when Kennedy fell, into the river. His body has no* been recovered. The deceased was engaged in drudging around Alexandra ioi the past thirteen years. i* rbviously he was em- £, jployed as a sailor by the Union Co. ■P STATES AJND lilEUi TAXES. BSk Wellington, December 31. duty vaa paid uu 135 estates this month. The .largest on which duty was paid was HBio,&^<, on the estate of ikr 0. A. ot Jdawkes lia^. ■FA liUVVDI SCHOOL MEETING. — VV'estport, Dec. iJU. 'llie cuairniau Jiaving declared, invalid Uie School Coninnttee niuuting g^that rwoomineuded seuamg forward to " Tuo xNelbOii Jlidutai-iou Board the uaui«iß ox iklr Vkake (.ilokitxta) and Mi- iiunLer ibti-auoruj ior tho principaliOup oi tiie Westport District ii. gu bchoui, a sticond meeting was caned, and pioved stormy, l'cur or Uio luemuers soundly berated the ciiaiiiuau, uud tUtiu iuft the meeting, xhu iivu leiuauung decided to ioruai'd me uanies ot Messrs ilarkness (Iteelton; and Wako in that order. It is imported that a public indignation meeting is to be called, the lour members who voted alleging that no matuu- ior whom they voted, it was cut and dried to give Mr Harkuet*> the position DbxNEDIiN VlttjUtiSD. Dunedin, Dec. 0. Jblxceptiunaliy heavy rain leil early this alUiinoon, and as the sewers were uuabk to carry the deluge of water away, inanv low-lying places ■, wore Hooded tor the time being. . . In several business places considerable damage was done, in some cases bblng liooded, and in others !^Rne water nnding its way through vg the roof. W A number of tranicars stopped for r about half an hour, owing to the . lines being covered with water or blocked with. silt. A PRE&a CONFERENCE. Wellington, Dec. uJ. New Zealand is sending six delegates to tho Imperial Press Confer-* euce, opening in London on June 7 next. Wellington will be represented by Air Gresiey Lukin (editor of the Evening Post) and Mr Jb\ LLiihy (assistaut editor ol the iSew Zealand .Times), Aucklaudjij; -2ii Itf. S. Doug-fc^CejiiUAS^-oTTlie J\ew Zfeaiaad HerMi* George I'enwick (editor of Otago Daily Times) and Mr M. (editor of the Evening Star) will in all likelihood represent Dunedin. Christohurch may also be represented. Australia will pr*obably send twenty v deieigates. LABOURERS' CONFERENCE. Wellington, Dec. 30. The hrst annual conference of delegates of the General Labourers' Unions in the Wellington industrial district terminated yesterday. It was decided to set a sum aside at re-, gular intervals to assist in the pro- — duotion of a newspaper, to be run in the labour interests. The secretary (Mr M. J. Reardon) was instructed to make an organising tonr of the district as soon as possible. The scheme of federation of the •' General Labourers' Union of the dominion was approved, and it was notified that the Wairarapa Navvies and General Labourers' Union had uM> decided to affiliate with the Welling- ~~~ ton Union on terms to be arranged. . % The conference devised a scheme \is conditions connected with the preference clause in the country awards will be made operative. Up to the present the preference clause has not been taken advantage of by the country unions, but under the *~"~new arrangement it is hoped that the country unions will be able to take advantage of the preference clause to the fullest extent. | It was decided that copies of proposed labour measures be forwarded to unions, with suggested amendments, with a view to their discussion by the branches. The object, of this is to get an expression from the branches, who are to be requested to forward their views to the members of Parliament for their respective districts. A HOUSE DESTROYED. Gisborne, December 31. Early this morning a new eeven- ■ roomed house, owned by Mr Hood, —-I occupied by Mr George Coleman, i destroyed by fire. The origin mtnown. The house was insured the South British office for £500 I 1 the furniture and contents for X) in the Commercial Union.