TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17871, 28 February 1920, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 27. Admiral Halsoy has accepted tho Auckland Harbour Board's offer to berth H.M.S. Renown at tho Queen's wharf on tho occasion of tho Prince of Wales's visit to that city. At the Methodist Conference to-day the. following laymen wero elected to tho Stationing Committee: —Messrs .H. Field and A. J. Booth, Vosper, Tidd, E Dixon, W. Ambury, T. li. Hodder, C. Newton, Martin, Donald, Penny, Lucas, Blackwell, Dobbs, Watson, Andrews, Roscvear, Jameson, Froggat, and G. T. Stead. Mr W. S. .Stone, of Auckland, was, after threo ballots, elected as additional representative. The stationing of ministers will present considerable difficulties this year. The ministerial members of the committee had been previously appointed, and consist of (ho chairmen of districts and a minister representing each district. The first reading of stations will be taken on Monday. Several applications for admission to the ministry and some resignations were referred to a special committee. Tho conference then resolved itself into various committees to prepare for the work of the conference. GISBORNE, February 27. ■ The minimum subscription necessary to secure tho flotation of tho Waikohu Hydroelectric Company, a kx:ul enterprise, which is prepared to supply Gisborno and district with 8000 h.p. electrical energy, has been secured, and immediate step* s will be taken to obtain tho license promised by tho Minister of Public Works. WELLINGTON, February 27. The steamer Ngatiawa, which was stranded on the Opotiki bar last week, is now practically afloat, and it was expected to berth her at tho wharf to-day. Heavy anchors were laid at low water and warping lines attached to tho Ngati&wa's winches, with the result that at high tide she was brought to the edge of the ehannol CHRISTCHURCH, February 27. A prosecution under the Dentists' Act, 1908, was heard in the Magistrate's Court today, when Ernest A. Ozanne was charged that, being an unregistered person, ho had carried on business as a dentist. The information was laid by the secretary of the Ohristchurch branch of tho New Zealand Dental Association. Tho magistrate convicted Ozanne and inflicted a line of 40s.