TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8039, 16 March 1905, Page 7

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Freea Association),

CHRISTCHUECH, March i5,

At a m«et!ni! of the executive ct tbe Canterbury Farmers'' Unloo to-day, it was rosoived to call the Minister'a attention totha increasicig dauber of »nthras, in consequence of she largo iaiportatioQß of bbaes, to express en opinion that tho present arrangement would noli mccc the rieods ai the cisc, and to ask. for either the prohibitiox) of tho importation or sterilisation «c ports of entry. The executive waa fiUo cf opinion that the Joss to farmers through the possible introduction of the disease would be greater than the- loss they would (suffer through tho total prohibition of the manuro or the cost of lo2*l sterilisation

Samuel. Goodin,.farmer of Biocarton, committed suicide eairiy this morning by hanging.

DUSEDIN, March 15. A somewhat sensational development hto taken place irToonnection wiih the disappearance of about; £50 worth of goods from the warehoue of the D.I 0., between the 7ch and- 9uh inst. D6teotives have been making investigations, and to-day visited the houses of Constables McDonald an^ Moses, both married men, where a l*rgn qunmity of goods wore Luad, believed to be identi cal with those stolen from the DLC. The constables were ac once suspended and detained iubarraoks. Investigations sre still proceeding and there may be further develo^meulSi The key oi the warehouse was locktd in a box sjach niiibt and taken to the polioe station where che box was locked in another box which is a fixture in the wutehhouse.

At Balclutha to-day J. S. Knipe and Annie Knipe were charged with illegally keeping liquor for sale in a prohibition district. Knipe was found £15 and crists £&. His wife was convicted and discharged. John MtCorley, of the Railway Hotel was similarly charged. Only a stnfill quantity of liquor was found. .VlcCo'iniek was away when the raid was made. The magistrate said he couid not convict on susDicion and the case would be di'missf-d.

MASTEETON, March 15-

At a meating. of the flospiu. •tuu-cs to-day, a deputation present! d v tion signed by upwards of 750 resident, aaking that Dr Butement's sorvici s as medical officer at the Hospital be retained. After discassion, the /ollowitig resolution was carried, "That the trustees regret that the resolution passed at the last meeting failed to as'ign auy reason for terminating Dr Butement's service?, and that a copy of the resolution be sent to Dr Butemeni with the full reasons for his dismissal "

Mr Hogg proposed the following as an amendment, but whioh waß eventually carried as a separate molion: '•That tho petitioners bo informed that thß sole reason for terminating the services of the present medical officer was that the other medical men in the town had declined to co-operaco with him acd form an honorary staff, and not be cause there was any wans of confidence in the skill and ability of Dr Butement."