TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8938, 3 July 1905, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

, FIRE. [PRISS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 3. • A boarding-house in Sydney street, owned by Mr Francis, and occupied by Misses Upson and Carr, and six boarders, was destroyed by fire at 2.20 o'clock on Sunday morning. The inmates narrowly ■escaped with their lives. The furniture was insured for £75 in tlie National, and the building for £550 in the South British. ALLEGED ILLEGAL OPERATION CASE. AUCKLAND, July 3. Dr Orpen was again Temanded on a cliarge of having committed am illegal operation. The Crown Prosecutor stated that the principal witness was worse than she had been before.

APPEAL COURT

WELLINGTON, July 3. The Appeal Court to-day is hearing Warner's, Limited, v. Lyttelton Times Company, Limited,^ an action in which the proprietors of Warner's Hotel, Chrialchurch, seek damages, and an injunction from the newspaper company for an *iJ - leged nuisance caused by the printing machinery. The action was heard by Mr Justice Denniston, who gave certain findings of fact and the matter was then removed by consent to the Court of Ap.peal for argument. The case is being heard by the Chief Justice, and Justices Williams, Edwards, Cooper, aud Chapman.

DROWNING FATALITY.

HAMILTON, July 3. On Saturday evening a man named Joseph YcaTbuTy jumped into the Wajkato Tiver between Ngaruawuliia aud Taupiri to save a horse that had slipped in. Yearbury, who was fully dressed, wnj> drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. »

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION'S CONFERENCE.

WELLINGTON, July 3. The annual conference of the executive of the New Zealand Municipal Association opened to-day, representatives fiom various parts of the colony being present. Tlic first business was v memorandum from the secretary and legal adviser concerning the proposal to institute a. guarantee and superannuation fund for municipal officer}*. Tin's memorandum gave particulars of other funds of a similar nature, and pointed out that legislation would be neceasary. In the course of a general discussion it >yaii established that while the superannuation scheme generally was regarded a 6 desirable the matter of setting up the association guarantee fund would not lie looked upon with the same general favor. MY J. Allen, M.H.R., moved, That in the opinion '(.! the executive the scheme for the guarantee fund iis not desirable. Carried. It was decided to appoint a committee consisting of Messrs Hislop, Williams, Kcnall, Devine, J. Allen, and W. Fraser to thoroughly investigate the superannuation question and present a scheme for subniis•>ion.

Resolutions wert passed favoring thepassing of legislation allowing municipalities to compulsorily acquire gas works at valuation ; that no by-law be invalid six months after coming into force on the ground of informality mi making the bylaw ; that when a person ceases to be a member of the council, any office he may hold at the time as the council's representative shall become vacant 14 days after election of his successor ; that Empire. Day should lie- a- statutory holiday ; that combined action be taken by municipalities to prevent any attempt of* Harbor Boards to restrict the existing rights of municipalities to drain, surface water into the sea.