TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19135, 1 April 1924, Page 8

TELEGRAMS.

• 5 (Pbb United Press Assooiatios.l ; AUCKLAND, March 31. >Th e Auckland Power Board has accepted the London underwriters’ offer to issue a £250,000 loan at 5 per cent, at 97. Ims m the balance of a £600.000 loan authorised l 8 months ago which enabled the completion of reticulation to the board’s boundary. The board to-morrow will take over the Hobson street tram power-station, the loan for which was £250,000. at Si per cent., of t which £143,000 was subscribed in the do- » minion, the bank which guaranteed the f loan taking £107,000. f In the Police Court Thomas Walker, aged 62 years, was. charged with stealing £ll f the property of the North Auckland Land Board while in the Government employ. His counsel said that accused had lost his billet. He had hitherto borne an excellent character. He had gone astray through betting on horse races. Accused was re manded for the probation officer’s report. The Tofua, which was delayed in her departure for the Islands on Saturday owing to difficulty over the objection to Fijians being employed as firemen, was hauled into the stream this morning, six men short. The vessel soiled at 10 p.m. for Suva. , GISBORNE, March 31. ! The Harbour Board to-day received rej ports from Mr F. W. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chiof, of various alternatives to Mr Reynolds’s scheme, which was approved by the ratepayers two years ago. 'J.ne upshot ; was that Mr Furkert recommended that none could be preferred to Mr Reynolds’s scheme. The board decided to invite Mr Leslie Reynolds to supply (.- details as to the modus operand! in connection with his scheme, and a committee was set up to approach the bank with the object of getting a quotation for raising a part or the whole of the loan of £750,000. NAPIER, March 31. ' Jessie Stella Smart Morgan, a young 'Harried woman, was arrested to-day on a charge of breaking and entering and theft from a dwelling in Napier. The articles alleged to have been stolen include clothing, books, cutlery, and crockery. The accused • was remanded to appear to-morrow. WELLINGTON, March 31. Th© local branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association unanimously endorsed the action of the New Zealand Association with regard to the disposal of the Poppy Day funds for this year. Mr Deans, of Canterbury, holder of one of the Southland Acclimatisation Society’s wapiti licenses, who went into the wapiti country via Te Anau, returned with a fine head, a 14-pointer, which he shot on the top ridges of the middle arm on the west of Lake Te Anau (says an Invercargill Press Association message). Mr Deans and his two guides had great difficulty in getting the weighty head back to Te Anau, being further hampered by the fact that soon i after the wapiti was shot a heavy downpour of rain set in and lasted for two days, during which time they were compelled to shelter tinder a single tent fly. their only available protection. During the time they Were in the wapiti country only two anjmals were sighted, the second one, which , was shot at a range of 500 yards, boing the only one which offered an opportunity for shooting.