GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 October 1924, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MISSING BANKRUPT. I (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ASHBJjR.TON, Oct. 16. At a meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Arthur Wilkes Luscomoe, house-dealer, of Mount Somers, the bankrupt failed to appear. The Deputy-Official Assignee stated that all endeavours to trace Luscombe hail been unsuccessful. Information had been received by him that bankrupt had been endeavouring to collect book debts since filing. Acting on the advice of the Crown solicitor, the meetdecided to take steps to secure Luseombe ! s arrest. WILL BOARI’S DEPREDATIONS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. A huge wild boar that for five years has been raiding lambs and causing ™ uc ' h oes hi the Little Akatarawa Valley was shot recently after manv attempts. It measured six feet six inches m length. G OVEPiNOR-GENEtR AL AT TIMAR [J IIMARU, Oct. 16. ru- \ Governor-General (Viscount delhcoe), who is paying a farewell visit Tim-aru, was a.t luncheon to-day by the Mayor and councillors and afterwards opened the new sailors’ rest. He will lea.ve for Christchurch to-morrow. FALSE INCOME TAX RETURNS. CHRISTCHURCH Oct. 16. _ln the Magistrate's Court to-day Charles Knight, a butcher, was lined £lO on each of four charges of making false income tax returns. John William Lawrence, public ac' conn-tant, was fined £2 on each of four charges of making negligent returns m his capacity as Knight’s agent and accountant. The charge against Lawrence is the first of its kind-heard in New Zealand. A VALUELESS CHEQUE, AUCKLAND. Oct 16 For £23 from a Palmerston North firm by means of a valueless cheque, a young man named James ‘Williamson was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment-. A QUARRyMAN’S DEATH. rr , DUNEDIN, Oct. 16. The inquest was completed at Milton concerning the death of Alexander Brown, quarryman, aged 69. who was found dead on the roadside on September 25. There were no witnesses to the accident causing death, but evidence indicated that deceased, when working alone in ' the quarry! slipped from a sloping face on to the point of a crowbar, Which penetrated the lungs. The unfortunate man dragged himself nearly a mile before, collapsing. AN APPEAL FROM INDIA. DUNEDIN, Oct, 16. The secretary of the New Zealand Foreign Missions, has received the following cable from India: “Disastrous floods in the Jagadhri district. A hundred villages artaffected and forty have been totally ruined and a hundred lives lost and thousands of. cattle. The crops are ruined. The council requests cable authority to- spend £SOO upon immediate relief.” DIRECT SHIPS FOR SOUTH ISLAND. i DUNEDIN, Oct. 16. Mr Austin Wilson, chief Australasian agent in London with the Eastern Railway Company, owning 16 docks in England, and serving 22 more, stated this morning that all shipping lines, saving New Zealand, have agreed to give South Island traders direct shipping facilities if the traders undertake to support them. One report of the direct service will be, he says, a much greater share of immigrants for the South Island. Mr W 7 ilson goes to Christchurch to-morrow, but returns next week to address the associate chambers of commerce in the South Island. DEATH OF MOTOR CYCLIST. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 16. William George Steale, aged 24,.0f Wooleton, died in hospital to-day as the result of falling off a motor cycle. MUTILATED BY CIRCULAR. SAW r . ASHBURTON, Oct. 16. James Elridge, aged 46, who was employed at the Chertsey sawmill, was admitted to hospital to-day suffering from injuries sustained through coming in. contact with a small circular saw. Elridge apparently stumbled, and- his right arm was badly mutilated, amputation being necessary. BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. The Diocesan Synod carried a motion that the Synod, being persuaded to test tlie provision of the Religious Exercises in Schools Bill, as desired- by the majority of the citizens of the Dominion, urges Christian people to make a united effort to hasten the enactment of such measure. Bishop Averill, in his charge to the Synod, advocated the referendum.