TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18321, 11 August 1921, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, August 10. In the Supremo Court this morning in the case of George Churchill and Alexander Chisholm, charged with conspiring to defraud by falsifying the time-sheets of the Union Company, the jury’s verdict was not guilty. AUCKLAND. August 10. The launch Eileen Bell, owned by Mr W. P. Bronlund, and valued at £ISOO, caught fire last night from an explosion caused by fumes from cargo. Mr Brqnlund had a narrow escape from the cabin, the roof of which was blown off. The City Brigade extinguished the flames. The cabin was destroyed, the hull somewhat demaged. and the engine damaged to the extent of £SOO. AUCKLAND. August 10. A conference of btisiness men interested in the Island trade discussed Auckland’s position in view of the Fijian Government’s arrangement with the Commonwealth Lino for steamship connection between Great Britain, Fiji, and Australia. Emphasis was laid on the decline in Auckland’s trade of recent years, and on the need for a regular service to recover it, A committee ■was appointed to confer with the Chamber of Commerce. WAIHI. August 10. A young man named John M'Leaii was arrested here yesterday on a charge of breaking and entering the Paeroa railway ami removing a number of handbags, also of the theft of a brief bag containing £l9. and sundry articles from a hotel in Te Aroha. The money was hidden in the precincts of a. lodging house in Waihi. and was discovered by the police. Accused was fortrnllv charged this afternoon, and remanded till the 18th inst.