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DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association).

SUGAR CARGO. AUCKLAND, March 8. The steamer Grange Port has arrived with 7000 tops of raw sugar from Peru, the first to reach Auckland from Peru for twenty-six years. WAITAKI POWER BOARD. OAMARU, March 7. A poll was taken in the Waitaki Electric Power Board District to-day on a proposal to raise a loan of £135,000 for the reticulation of the district. The loan was carried by a large majority. With two small results to come, the. figures are :—For the proposal, 1272 ; against, 122. RATING SYSTEM POLL. TAURANGA, March 7. Considerable interest was taken to-day in a’ poll for the adoption of rating on unimproved values, which resulted: For 295; against 282; informal four. At a poll taken in October, 1920, the proposal was rejected by 140 votes. FIRE AT IRONWORKS. DUNEDIN, March 8. A fire, last night, 'at the Iron and Steel Company’s-Works, broke out in the drying room, an’ iron shed used as . a workshop for the manufacture of coverings for hbt-water pipes. Stock, machinery and the building sustained damage estimated at £3OO. NEW TRIAL WANTED. - AUCKLAND, March 6. Arthur Cleave, against whom G. R. W. McDonald, of Sydney, obtained a verdict for £2OOO damages in the Supreme Court last week, has lodged a motion for a new trial. Among the grounds upon which the application is based is that material evidence has been discovered since the trial which could not have been foreseen or known before the trial.

THE WRONG REMEDY. WELLINGTON, March 6. In the Gisborne land case, Natana Te Kawe, or Frasertown, plaintiff and E. C. Levvey, Stipendiary Magistrate at Gisborne and Dora Devery, a dispute as to an agreement for the payment of interest, etc., Mr. M. Myers, K.C., for defendants, contended that the proper remedy had not been taken. If there was any remedy it was not by way of prohibition, but by appeal. This view was upheld by the Chief Justice, who gave judgment for defendants. A CHRISTCHURCH FIRE. CHRISTCHURCH. March 8. Fire at 2 a.m. destroyed a sevenroomed • house in Ham Road, cfwned and occupied by 0. C. Threlkeld. The blaze started in the washhouse about five yards from the house, •presumably 1 from the fusing of electric wires. If a water supply- or helpers had been available,, the house could Eave been saved, but being outside the city fire area, the brigade did not attend. The total ■ loss of house and furniture represented. £3OOO, partially covered by insurance.' - z ARSON SUSPECTED. PALMERSTON NORTH, March 7. The glimmer in a shed by a lighted candle burning in a cupboard, on a pile of pipes and finely cut kindling wood was the sign which led a Woodville resident on a recent evening to think that the garage of the Woodville Motor Coy. was in danger of destruction by fire. The police found the candle in the last stages of iliumin. ation and in another few minutes the tinder would have ignited, firing the cupboard, and also the; garage. An inspection strongly indicated incendiarism. The manager away at the time. The police are investigating.

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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1924, Page 5

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DOMINION ITEMS Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1924, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1924, Page 5