TELEGRAMS

North Otago Times, 19 December 1904, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

WELLINGTON. December 18. On Saturday morning at the (Jovoi'nment grading stores, Mr Kinsella, Dairy Commissioner, licld a conference with the stuff of the ilnlry division for the purpose of grading .several parcels of butter, with tho object of ensuring uniiormity in procedure at the various shipping ports, and by the butter and cheese instructors, lit the afternoon the stall mot a number of exporters, and hoard their views rclaliu to l.he grading system, The opinion ]W m \ tig ( |]o imliliTpiciiiiittiittryjiitiii i'iliifil lo ulb ii ra Id Unit tlio system required perfecting in order that tho outpol from each vat should lie separately tested.

BLENHEIM. December 17,

The Land Compensation Coutt, engaged in hearing the Flaxbourne case, lins succeeded in classifying the esliile, and has also finished with the question of the retained area, which was settled by mutual agreement between the parties, The owners will retain 11,1-18 acres, ami the Government will take the balance of the estste. The Court adjourned till February Ist to take the valuation branch of the case. Judge Cooper, the assessors, ami visiting counsel left Blenheim today. AUCKLAND, December 18. After Dr Savage, evidence in the Collins' case was given by Drs Gore, Cilion and Purchase of an expert charactor regarding the operation. The Court then adjourned till .Monday. TIAIARU,December 18. Nothing has been seen of Johnson or Hie Mills hoys, or the boat, which, went amisslug on Friday,

DUNEDIN. December 18. A body was found in (lie harbor Into yesterday, It ivus a good deal decomposed and disfigured by the face being bitten by lish, It is supposed to be that 01 Ilenry Pearce, one of tlie crew of the Andoru, who was reported as missing l'rom the ship two days before her dcparlure for Melbourne, l'earce was about 50 years of age. (Icorge Hlephens, second son of the late inspector of Works for the Harbor Hon id, was drowned in the Lower liu'boi' yesterday. He was sailing in the yacht Ano.'iyiua willi two others, a .strong south-west wind blowing, Willi lumpy water. The dingy broke loose, and the yacht jml about to recover it. When close to it Stephens jumped into the dingy, but rolled over the gunwale. He swain a few strokes, and sunk. The body, so far, lias not been recovered. James Douglas, a dairy farmer, aged ■1(1 years, living with his wife and family at I'urnknmii, was found banging in a tow shed on Saturday afternoon. The htvly was cut. down, but liio was extinct. Deceased was in comfortable circumstances, but was troubled with insomnia. OHRiSTOiitmcn, December 18.