TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

; i'EB, PEESS ASBOCI/3ION. Wellington, September 21. On account of the unsettled conditions of business at present, the delegates representing the various branches oi the Employers' Federation have found it impossible to meet m conference for the purposes of choosing a delegate for a seat on the Arbitration Court Bench. Mr W f . Scott, -who gave notice of intention to retire from the position at the end of the year, has in the meantime withdrawn "ids resignation. The meeting of delegates that was to be held on September 30 has been postponed indefinitely- -, • , The Prime Minister has received word that the Europeans and natives in Cook Islands subscribed £120 to the Empire Defence Fund. I'almerston, September 21. ' The officers and men at the camp took up a collection for the Huutly widows' and orphans' fund, aiid Chaplain Bush King has announced that the amount subscribed amounted to £107. Invercargill. September 21. Nurse Chambers' private hospital was gutted by lire at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Fortunately, there ' wore no patients. Insurances, £450 on the building and £275 on the furniture. Dunedin, September 21. Henry Newton, aged 40 years, was killed by a fall of earth near Nightcaps yesterday. He was undermining a'bank when the face came away, breaking his back. He leaves a widow and eleven children. Masterton, September 21. An old identity of Masterton, Mr Thomas Wilton, sen., died yesterday at tlie age of 83. He arrived in Wellington in the forties in the ship Oriental. New Plymouth, September 21. Tlie Harbour Board dredge Paritufcu ran clown a fishing boat off the breakwater this morning. One of the occupants, Flinders Htirsthou.se, though only a short time in the water* succumbed to shock, being in a bad state of health. He was an elderly man, a brother of the late C. Wilson Hursthouso. Auckland, September 21. A hockey match played this morning between University teams resulted: Auckland three, Victoria College (Wellington) one. For the, winners, Mahojiey scored two and King one; for Victoria College G. Strack scored.