TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 March 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

r -— LlA.lv a'ULOkT } IJLLE i/iUUID UT 1' U OUti i UFFS. Napier, ilus Day. liie Liuy Council discussed the loodaiutts question and passed a resolution recording an emphatic protest against Uie way prices are being" advanced and calling upon the Government to exercise tiie powers vested in it by regulating the prices ol common necessities within the bounds oi reason and clieektlie cupidity of a few, and protect the well being of the whole.

MISSING AIAIL BAG FOUND

Dannevirise, This Day

The mail bag missing some weeks ago from the Napier evening train was found recently in the street near the railway station, lipped open and rilled. Some money is said to have been stolen.

DAMAGES AWARDED

Ohristchurcli, This Day

11l a civil claim the Court awarded Olive iiuick £200 as damages, with against J. Witty, a motor car driver, and \\ itty's father, part owner of tlio motor car. liuick iiad been seriously injured as the result of a collision between Witty's car and a motor cycle and side-car in which she was a pa-senger. A WORLD'S PRESS CONGRESS. Wellington, This Day •ilr Clifton, Commissioner at San i luncisco, has received a letter inviting the appointment of Now Zealand delegates to the Internationar Press Co igress to be held there from July uth to ihe 10th. The Congress will not be sectarian, partisan ,sectional, or national, but will consider questions of .importance to the worlds journalism anil seek to promote its highest interests. Delegates are being invited lroin all over the United States and live from every country represented at the Exhibition. They are supposed to he chosen lroin representatives and eminent members ol the profession in New Zealand. The Uoyernnient is asked to appoint live delegates from the Dominion and to further this end, will be glad to receive the names ot 1 New Zealand leading journalists who are likely to visit the exhibition before July 5. DEATH Ol' LIEUT.-COLONEL RICH ARDSON. Greymoutli. This Day. Lieut.-Colonel Richardson died in camp last night. He was a son of the late Hon. E. Richardson. Later. Liihit-Colonel Richardson was taken ill suddenly yesterday and died during the night from cerebral hemorrhage He had not been in the best heaJtli since the Kowhai camp last year. The camp was to break up to-day, the Canterbury section having left yesterday morning. The body was brought to town this morning and will be taken overland to Christchurch to -morrow. I he news of his death caused a painful shock in camp, the late Lieut-Colonel being an exceeding popular officer. A SERIOUS CHARGE. Christchurch. This Day. Bertram Bunn, a candidate for Riccarton at last election, appeared in Court to-day .charged with an attempt to procure abortion. He was remanded till Friday nest. Bail was allowin his own recognaisance of £200 and a surety of £300. The case was the outcome of evidence given at the inquest into the death of an illegitimate child last Monday. MAIN TRUNK UOADS. Auckland. This Day. The Chaniber of Commerce decided to urge the Government to set up without delay a commission to go into the improvement of the main roads between Auckland and Wellington.