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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 4

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News has been received from the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Rotorua, from Southampton, radios that it expects to arrive at Wellington on September 17th.

Private information has been received in Hastings intimating that the delay in delivering judgment, in the Hastings slaughtering agreement case, is due to the fact that Mr. Justice Salmond has been confined to his foem, indisposed for over four weeks. It is anticipated that judgment will be delayed ter another three weeks.

In the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday, Hannah McKenzie, a married woman, claimed £lOOO damages from the Waikato Hospital Board for alleged negligence. Plaintiff alleged that she was burned by a hot water bottle while a jiatient in the hospital. After much evidence was taken the parties conferred and arrived at a settlement. Plaintiff withdraw the allegations of negligence against the board or its servants.

Misfortune befell a former Gisborne resident who had arranged to sail for England by the Ruahine yesterday with his wife and baby and last night he was disconsolate in Auckland while his family are on the high seas. The vessel was scheduled by a board at the gangway to sail at noon and the passengers were all aboard. When the passenger in question inquired of the steward when the boat would sail he was informed not before five, so he went ashore to obtain medicine for the baby and transact other business. Just after one o’clock he learned casually in a business establishment that the boat had sailed. He hurried to the wharf only to find that the vessel had sailed an hour previously.

The attempt to put off on the public German mark notes of seemingly high value continues says the Sydney “Morning Herald,” A reputable Melbourne firm has issued circulars offering 10,000,000 mark notes at 5s each, and very pointedly stating that the former value of; 10,000,000 marks was £500,000. On the Exchange rate of to-day, and that rate has not varied for some months, 10,000,000 marks are worth an extremely small fraction of a penny. In Berlin a mark note of the denomination of 75,000,000 marks will not purchase more than a penny worth of goods. There is not tne remotest possibility of a 1 ten million mark ever being worth a penny, let alone half a million sterling. The latest available figures give the circulation of paper curency in Germany as 303,265,745 billion marks. All the wealth of the world would never suflice to redeem that currency at par. To invite people to buy jnark notes, at the price stated in the circular with the implication that there is a bare possibility of the notes regaining their par value is an offer to defraud them.