MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 13 September 1909, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Press Association. — Copyright, GISBORNE, Monday. The contract for the erection of freezing works in Tokomaru Bay has been let to Bull Bros., Napier, the price being £39,000. .Seven tenders were -received from contractors at Christchurch, Napier, Wellington, Auckland, and- Gisborne. The. works are expected .to be ready in October, 1910, and to have a capacity of handling 2000 sheep a day. ' ■ NAPIEBj Monday. Mr Justice Cooper granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, in the divorco suit Alice Colquhoun v. Thomas Colquhoiin, contractor, of Weber, on the grounds of ■ desertion. ... . • .- * .' 'J.-J J. Patterson, solicitor, of Dannevirke, : Xwho has . just --. .completed a ■short soutence of imprisonment for a breach of the -Bankruptcy Act, appeared .before Mr Justice Cooper at : . the' Supreme Court* tp-day .to ' undergo • a public examination. • The hearing is likely :to be lengthy. WELLINGTON, Monday. '•' The Railway Department having made temporary arrangements with the Public Works Department for carrying a limited traffic on the still unfinished Blackball Branch line, the Paparoa Coal Company started on Saturday .'to ; put coal down its incline.