TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 24 September 1912, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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Christchurch, Sept. 23. A meeting of local business men, convened by the Lyttelton Harbour Board and the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, was held this afternoon to consider the question of whether local evidence should be given before the Empire Trade Commission when that body reaches Christchurch.

It was resolved: "That Committees ba appointed, representing the agricultural and pastoral, trade and commerce, and industrial, and harbours interests, to make enquiries and supply information in reference to their respective departments, to be forwarded to the Dominion's Royal Commissioner through the Minister of Internal Affairs; also to recommend experts to give evidence the Commissioners when the Commission is being held in New Zealand. NATIVE PASTOR'S DEATH. Gisborne, September 24. The Rev. Nikora Tautau, while on his way to Tolaga after holding a sorvico at Tokomaru yesterday, fell from his horse- and was picked up unconscious. Ho died last night. A VICTIM OF DRINK. Kenneth Mattheson, who was found drowned on Saturday, was a station hand addicted to drink. SCULLING. Wanganui, Sept.. 24. Providing there is sufficient inducement for the professional sculling handicap to be held on the Wanganui River during Christmas week, the promoters stipulate that the event be confined to New Zealand scullers. The motives underlying the proposal are to give championship aspirants an opportunity of showing they possess pace and staying power sufficient to warrant enthusiasts taking them in hand with the object of bringing the title back to New Zealand.

A CHILD'S DEATH. Auckland, Sept. 24. A six-year-old son of Prokins, residing 'at Mount Albert, who fell from a hayloft on Saturday and sustained serious injuries, striking the concrete floor, died in the hospital last night.