TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9185, Issue 9185, 8 April 1910, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) DTJNEDIN, April 8. The Y.M.C.A. intend calling tenders immediately for a new building. The approximate cost, including the equipment and site in Moray place, will be £21,000. D. Benjamin and Co., wholesale merchants, have disposed for cash of their business to the Australian Assets Company, of Melbourne. GISBORNE, April 8.

The Premier visits Gieborne next Wednesday to open the Townley Maternity Home.

A visit was paid yesterday to the Tuahine lighthouse by the chairman of the Harbour Board and the district Engineer. They confirm the opinion that the position of the tower is unsafe, and that it should be removed immediately, as the whole point is liable to slip into the sea. The Minister for Education visited the country schools to-day. STRATFORD, April 8.

In the Stratford Magistrate's Court Mr Fookee, solicitor, informed Mr Greenfield, S.M., that the local bar entirely dissociated itself from the remarks reported to have been made in the Eltham Court as conveyecHn yesterday's press message from Eltham, and expressed high appreciatioii of the magnanimous manner in which Mr Greenfield had stepped into the breach in a time of emergency. While the Court was still sitting Mr Greenfield received a telegram as follows:—"Mr Wake's remarks not made with the sanction and approval of the Eltham Bar."

AUCKLAND, April 8. The Arbitration Court dealt with the. claims by Lewis Hunter to recover £280 Is 4el from the Union Company for the loss of an arm while quartermaster on their steamer. He' was awarded £222 9s 4d, less £190 7s 7d paid into Court. WAIPAWA. April 8.

The Waipawa County Council has instructed their representative on the Napier Harbour Board to oppose further expenditure on the breakwater until the election of the new Board.