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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 163, 27 June 1911, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS. Walter Wells, while bushfelling at Hangaroa, was pinned against a tree by a falling trunk. He sustained severe internal injuries, and was taken to Gisborne Hosuital. At the Westport Supreme Court yesterday, Stanley Ross, on a charge of assault, did not appear, and his recognisances of £lOO, which were found by an Auckland solicitor, were ordered to be forfeited. A meeting of the Christchurch East branch of the New Zealand Labour Party was held on Friday to select a candidate to stand in the interests of the party for Christchurch East at next election. Messrs. H. Hunter and F. R. Cook had been nojninated at a previous meeting, and on Friday night Mr. Hunter was unanimously selected as the candidate. Sweated sovereigns are a source of worry and loss to the Federal Treasury, as well as to business people with a large turnover of golden coin. So many debased coins have been brought under the notice of the acting-Treasurer (Mr. Fraser) recently that he has determined to reward substantially any person who gives information leading to the conviction of issuers of sweated or spurious coins. Mr. Fraser has an interesting return, showing the losses due to the debasing of the coinage. “ The practice seems to have grown to a large extent in some portions of Australia,” stated Mr. Fraser recently, “ and we ask for assistance in stopping it.” *

The Executive of the Coronation Industrial Exhibition of the Wellington Industrial Association are feeling most keenly the disinclination of the Railway Department to meet it in the matter of excursion fares. Mr. T. Ballinger, president, has expressed himself most strongly on the subject. It is readily granted that country residents have fully availed themselves of the opportunity to see assembled one of the largest displays of New Zealand manufactures ever got together ; the receipts have exceeded the expectations of all concerned; butitisfelt that unless the. Railway Department co-operates in the venture there will not be that large attendance of the public from Hie country that the Executive wishes to see, in order that the lessons the Exhibition is to teach may sink in deeply and have good results for the manufacturing industry of the Dominion as a whole. For chronic chest complaints. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6. 2/6.