TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4435, 15 August 1901, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

PK.EBS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, August 14 The directors of the Westport Coal 00. have declaied an interim dividend of four per cent, for the half year ending 30th June. GISBORNE, August 14. The fi cow TJruroa was floated off the beach this afternoon and brought into the river. She has sustained very little damage. ASHBURTON August 14. The weather .which was mild in the morning changed after midday, wet squalls coming from the south. About four o’clock heavy snow fell for an hour and there were further heavy falls later in the evening. CHRISTCHURCH. August 14. In anticipation of an increase in the tariff, Christchurch merchants, following the example of Wellington and Auckland importers, have made extensive clearances of bonded stocks, especiallv tea and can dies, to-day, one firm paying £7OO duty on these lines. BLENHEIM, August 14. Walter Pullman, a young man residing at Crail Bay, Pelorus Sound, is reported missing since the 6th inst. It is stated that two brothers, Walter and Colin Pul! man, were working together in the bush, when a disagreement arose, and the latter left work and returned home. Since that time Walter has not been seen, and inquiries have failed to trace his where, nbouts. Sergeant Major _ Mason left Blenheim for Havelock this morning to investigate the matter. HAWERA. August,■ 14. E. J. Archibald was to-day committed for trial on several charges of misap uropristing the moneys of the Hawera Dairy Factory Company.