TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17424, 19 September 1918, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, September 17. The Board of Trade this morning' discussed with merchants the questions arising from the control of the grocery trade. This afternoon the board met the coal-mine owners, preparatory to taking 1 evidence on coal-pro-duction. MASTERTON, September 17. At the Magistrate's Court Alexander Birss, licensee of the Taratahi Hotel, was fined £25, and Alfred Congdon, taxi-driver, £10, for having supplied liquor to Natives in a proclaimed area. \Y'fri) <TrTN-G-TON, September 17. Tlie Merchant Service Guild is advised that the Union Company is prepared to give the guild an assurance that the conditions of compensation to dependents as laid down in the new Imperial Government compensation schemes will be observed by the company in regard to masters and offi•cers engaged in the company's vessels navigating the marine war area. After an agitation extending over several | years in seeking a site on Mount Cook j military r&serve for the erection of techj nical education class-rooms, the Government has agreed to set aside three acres for the purpose on the southern side with the provision that the balance of 10 acres must remain intact for other public purpose. The dedication of the land is conditional on the Wellington City Council granting £11,000 towards the cost of the buildings , The question of finding the balance of the money required remains to be discussed between the Ministers of Education and Finance When completed, the new build- i mgs will afford a welcome relief from the present situation, whereby the classes are ! housed in scattered quarters altogether inadequate. „ J n, rut t , September 18. - . jhe Cnief Justice has formally entered judgment for tho defendants in the apttoal ! case of Samuel Edward Fitzgerald, ship's ' steward, versus Colonel Clarence Reginald Mac Donald and others, in the case of an 1 alleged improperly-constituted court-martial ' no costs were allowed. ' " ; . GISBOR.NE, September 17. J In the Divorce Court a decree nisi was granted in tho case Ellen M'Carfchv (Gis- 1 borne) v. Thomas M'Carthy (soldier, Samoa) ' on the ground of desertion. 5 HOKITTKA, September 18 ] In tho Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice 1 Sim presiding, the grand jury threw cut a i charge of the alleged theft of opossum skins against Thomas ColL This was the only ( criminal charge Eet down for hearing. r-<i_ CHRISTCHCRCH, September 18. j J. he Education Conference resolved that J it is desirable that picture films should bo used in schools, and that the Education c Department should be asked to circulate films on the liries of those used in schools ; in the United States. J A meeting under the auspices of the Can- E tcroury Industrial Association discussed the question of the repatriation of returned sol- ? diers, and appointed a committee to draw l up a constitution in connection with the • scheme. i At tho Lyttelton Magistrate's Court to-dav % before Mr S E M'Carthy, S.M., Benjamin ? Perkin, a wharfinger in tho employ of tho 1 Isew Zealand Railways Department, was a sentenced to two months' imprisonment with- - out the option of a fine for the theft of coal, valued at £1, tho property of the Union Company. A charge against a seaman of using seditious language was dis- t missed. The mate of the ship, who laid the information, said the accused was very drunk C at the time, and there was no question or c intent. INVERCARGILI/, September 17. A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced at 0.35 this morning. The duration 11 was about a minute. i