TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1289, 15 September 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SERVICES APPRECIATED

Greymouth, September 15. Sir .Edward Perkins, secretary of the Athletic Union, was last night presented hy West Coast Centre with a roller-top desk as a momento of his many years! faithful service as secretary, haudicapper, aud promoter of athletics generally. Sir Thomas Fjgarty was appointed his successor as secretary. BACON FACTORY BURNED. Gisborne, September Id". The_ Okitu bacon factory owned iv Sir Wr. D. Lysnar, was destroyed Dy fire last night. THE SHEARER. Christchurch, Sept. 15. Mr Waddell, secretary of the Canterbury Shearers' Union, yesterday said he was prepared to make what he called "a sporting offer", to the sheep owners. From a conversation which a. Star reporter had with Sir Waddell this morning, it appears that his sporting offer really is an tiltimatum. Sir Waddell said the shearers were ready to go to work at £1 per 100. This offer would remain open till Friday night, and if the employers would not accept the offer hy that time the shearers would go straight out for 22s 6d per 100. The men, said Mr Waddell, had displayed the utmost patience and made all possible efforts. to bring about peaceful settlement. . They had been humhugged Tight from the jump. Labour was short in Australia, and Australian shearers would not come to New j Zealand, so that owners over here ! would have to rely on local men. He ] had done his best to smooth, out the difficulties, but he believed the owners wanted to force a fight. I