TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 32

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

•V’f: ; . AUCKLAND, June 27. The price of bread has been reduced by the Auckland bakers Trom 7d to 6d per fcun’ pound loaf from to-day. At the masters’ meeting last week the reduction of a halfpenny only was agreed to but ' the larger reduction has since been decided upon. ~ The ketch Champion, which went ashore on'the'rocks at Nguguru last week, is a total wreck. The bottom is out of the vessel; and the decks bulged. There was , to insurance* ' : " '. The son of Mr D. Dossitor, chemist, :. under three years of age, died from burns, caused by his pinafore igniting. Uia mother heard screams, and found the child' in flames. She rolled him in a carpet and extinguished the fire. The • child was severely burned, and death resulted from the shock. ./ PATE A, Juno 27. Application for the transfer of the Al-

ton .licence to Strathmore was refused ' to-day by the Patea Licensing Commitr - : GISBORNE, June 27. The* Poverty Bay Provincial Conference ' of . the -Farmers’ Union commenced this morning and continued to-night. Mr A. ' H. Wallis was re-elected president. ‘ NAPIER. June 27. Tlio' Licensing Committee granted renewals of licenses for the Central and Victoria Hotels, suitable licensees having " been found. . ' NELSON, June 27. - A boating accident occurred near• •Tahaka on Friday night, as the result of which a young man named Albert Bang lost hiS-’ life. The deceased and others . went off-to the steamer Wairoa to bring a nassenger, Miss Hadfield, aslioie. IVhen "JS fho river bar the beet capsized. The young 'man Hadfield swam ,ashoie with'Siis sister, and Charles Robertson, another occupant, regained the overturned boat, but Bang swam m the'wrong direction, and failed to reach the shore. The body-has not yet. been recovered. The decased was a native of iJenmariv, and had been eight years in New Zealand. He was employed at a sawmill at Awaroa, and leaves a widow and a young family.

- : . HOKITIKA, June 27. Henry Crone, an inmate of the Seaview Asylum for thirty-four years, died yesterday from suffocation, caused by' a piece of meat while eating. CHRISTCHURCH, June 27. Manv wholesale and retail tobacconists applaud the Premier’s remarks regarding the American Tobacco Trust, and express the opinion that legislation is urgently needed. There is a very general desire for freedom from the operation of the trusts.

‘ DUNEDIN, June 27. A private cable received here states that, of a' large shipment of valuable horses on board the Monowai, seven were lost in the bad weather experienced, including the racehorse Nihilist. Patrick Downey, a farmer, sixty years of age, residing at Waitahuna "West, and employed by Mr Ryan, threshing-mill owner, was accidentally killed while assisting to take one of the back travelling wheels off a traction engine. Matthew Hunt, an old resident of St.

Bothams, whose skull was fractured by a fall from a cliff near Opliir, died in the Dunstan hospital. He leaves a family, who reside at Gore. The City Licensing Committee to-day granted, with one exception, all applications for renewals, which had been adjourned to permit of alterations being made, principally in the matter of fire escapes. In the case of Wain’s Hotel, the application was adjourned for a fortnight, objection being taken to a portion of the sanitary arrangements, apd to a cornice with an outward slope being used in connection with the fire escape. Special to the “Mail.” CARTERTON, June 27. The monthly meeting of. the Wairarapa South County Council was held on Saturday. The overdraft was reported at ,£1316 9s Id, receipts since last meeting £365, £695 10s 3d being new rates. Accounts amounting to £439 Is 3d were, submitted for payment. It was resolved to close the Dalefield road to heavy traffic during the months of July, August and September. Mr Dallaston, headmaster of the Ponatahi School, who- has been transferred to the Rangitumau School, is to be tendered a farewell <f socia\” on Thursday evening.

The local bakers have decided to lower the price of bread! one penny, the cost now being 6d cash per 41b loaf, 7d booked. The Wairarapa branch of the Wellington College Old Boys’ Association will hold its second annual dinner on July 12. Informations were to have been laid against Mr F. C. Daniel, sawmiller, of Gladstone, by the 'Wairarapa South County Council, for carrying heavy loads of timber over the Maungaraki Hill, which has been closed for traffic over three tons during the winter months. Mr Daniel has now informed the Council that he understood that the by-law-referred to limited loads on four-wheeled vehicles with five-inch tires to four tons. He contended the rsolution was contrary to the agreement made by the warden for his district last year, and thought the Council did not realise the breach of agreement it was committing. mvn Council has informed Mr Daniel that no agreement has been broken, and that he was informed of the resolution last .February. Mr Daniel said his mill could not he stopped

for two months, and he was willing to metal part of the road. . The Council has now decided that Court proceedings be stayed, and that a special meeting be held on July Bth to. consider the matter, also that Mr Daniel be asked to be present at the meeting, and, if possible, make a proposition. StockrJnspector Jenkinson will, until the newly-appointed officer arrives, visit this district twice weekly. Mr .Huddlestone is expected at the beginning of next month.

PALMERSTON NORTH, June 27. . The Borough Council, discussed for nearly two hours to-night the abattoir question. The matter was given prominence in consequence of the decision of the Stock Department to refuse renewal of slaughtering licenses at the end of the present month. The Mayor reported that a committee of the Council, together, with the chief and assistant veterinarian, recently visited four of the • principal slaughter-houses from which the borough meat supply is drawn. They were aware of the decision arrived at. It was now open to the Council, he said, to either delegate its powers to Longburn Freezing Works Company or the Folding Borough Council, which has recently erected abattoirs. The' Mayor spoke. emphatically in

favour of going to Longburn in the absence of definite information from Feilding. It was a question of time. Until they could erect their own abattoirs (a work which ought to have been carried out four years ago), something should be done in the interest of public health. A report of a sub-committee was read recommending the Council not to delegate its powers. After a lengthy discussion it was eventually decided to instruct Councillors Armstrong and Tolley to interview the Feilding Borough Council on the question of terms, and report at a meeting to-morrow evening.

a Mr Walter®Rutherfurd, who has been resident in Palmerston for the past twenty-five years, was entertained at a banquet of representative citizens tonight prior to his early departure for the Old Country. Mr Maurice Cohen occupied the chair, and Mr S. W. Luxford. chairman of the Kairanga County Council, the vice chair. Eulogistic x-eferences were made to Mr Rutherfurd’s long and valued services in public life, arid his in-

timate association with the progress of the district. Mr Rutlierfurd will leave Palmerston on Wednesday, taking passage by the Warrimoo for Sydney, en route for England. Mr limes, late postmaster, will accompany Mr Ruthorfurd during liis tour.