TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(Pus, 13mixed Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 25. Burglars entered the premises of Archibald Black, warehouseman, over the weekend, evidently through a window at the rear, and selected £2OO worth of the best silk hosiery. They, removed it in a suit case, also part of the stock.

Six more of the Makura’s passengers were released from quarantine, leaving about the same number on tli® island. The conoidon of the fireman from the Ulimaroa, at Moiuihi, who is suffering from influenza, with lung trouble added, is reported to show' no improvement.

GISBORNE, Juno 25. The necessary guarantees cf about, jffi.OOO bales of wool for local sales have been received.

The waterside dispute at Gisborne has been settled, the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Company’s .permanent lightermen having joined the union this morning. _ CHRISTCHURCH. June 25. the third motor car theft in nine days occurred on Saturday night, when the private garage of Mr P. S. Nicholls, Innn agent, was entered by a side door, and a car driven off. Tho car was found on Sunday morning nen r the Bromley Cemetery with the tail light missing, ' A coil of hose was scolen bv the thieves . ASHBURTON, June 25. Ihc, consulting engineer, Mr Templin, has told th© South Canterbury Power Board that wherever the telegraph lines occupy one side of the read and private lines the other side,' the power lino must displace the private lines He recommended the board to follow the practice of the Telegraph Department in not recognising private owners’ rights, but agreeing to shift private wires into paddocks if the owners shifted the poles. The board approved of

. WELLINGTON, J une 25 . hollowing inquiries concerning defalcations from (he Repatriation Department another ex-officer of the department, Harry Patrick Hedging, has been arrested’by Detective Nuttall. The accused was brought before the Magistrate’s Court, and was remanded < on a charge of forging an inventory ox furniture, J

To-day tho Governor-General laid the foundation stone of a new school at the Wellington Boys’ College buildings. There was a largo and representative gathering. Lord Jollicoe, in the course of his remarks, said that Government House, Auckland, was 65 years old, and yet they were living in it. As was with old buildings, so it was with old ships. Sir Francis Bell also spoke.