GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12833, 5 April 1905, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

Chiustchukch, Tuesday. The Customs authorities here hold that the Shipping' and (Seamen Act of last session is not yet in force, as it has not been proclaimed by the Governor.

At a meeting of the creditors of Ron-land Waghorn, painter, to-day, the statement submitted showed an apparent surplus of assets over liabilities of £183. The bankruptattributed his position mainly to his warehouse! having been cut off from the city by the closing of Stuart-street to make room for the now railway station. He had been for three years trying in vain to get compensation from the Railway Department.

It is anticipated that the first electrical and Bresm unit at ihe Tramway Board's power-bouse will be connected up ami read* lor working in a fortnight. The estimate of £2000 stated in a telegram yesterday as the damage done to one road in the city by the heavy traction-engine traffic is explained to cover the damage to all the streets from the same jause- and by all users of traction engines. Dcnedin", Tuesday. When the man killed on the Port Chalmers railway on March 28 was not identified, a. post-mortem photograph was taken. Several persons who have seen the photograph, believe it i? that of a miner named .fames Scotr, believed to have » wife residing at Brunnerton, West Coast.