TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(Pbh United Press Asso'ciation.) AUCKLAND, December 6. Two Auckland auctioneers, Clarence Russell and Henry James Abraham, carrying on business at the Central Auction Mart, Queen street, were arrested at their place of business yesterday by Detective Knight on a charge of conspiring to defraud. The accused were brought before Mr Poynton, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, and remanded on bail till December 13. WELLINGTON, December 6. The question of the medical inspection of shipping in New Zealand has been referred to the Board of Health by the Minister, and, although the decision of the board is not yet available, it is understood that members have endorsed the proposals, which will bring about a. radical charge in the past procedure in connection with the inspection for health purposes of shipping arriving from overseas. The board has also given lengthy consideration to the question of sterilisation cf the unlit on board, and has decided to ask the Minister to allow Dr J. S. Elliot and the Hon. W. H Triggs, M.L.C., as representing the board, to be a committee of departmental experts which it is proposed to set up for the purpose of reporting on the subject, CHRISTCHURCH, December 6. Christopher Clinton, an elderly single man, who died at Stanmore read on Tuesday, and who was generally- believed to be a pauper, left 150 sovereigns, in brown paper in a brief bag, and bank pass books showing his total property to be worth .£odOU. Clinton was usually Had In rags, and often accepted gifts 0 f food and clothing. He left no will. The Public Trustee will divide the estate between the next-of-kin in Ireland and Canada.

A motion brought before the Supreme Court for the approval of a resection passed at a meeting of depositors and bondholders in the Now Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury (Ltd.) has been approved by Mr. Justice Adams. The motion was one agreeing upon certain conditions that the bondholders should accept 6i per cent, instead of 7£ per cent,, that the association should be released from the payment of a debenture tax of 3s in the £. and that all deposits should be converted into fixed deposits for terms to be arranged ranging from six months upwards.