NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 30

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

AUCKLAND. The financial position of the Exhibition Amusements, Ltd., is explained by the reports and balance sheet prepared for a general meeting of shareholders. They show that the result from the operations of “Wonderland” during the period of the Exhibition was a net loss of £3820. Among the business to come before the meeting will be the consideration of a proposal that the company should go into liquidation. At the Te Kuiti Court a Maori named Kati charged with assault and causing actual bodily harm to another Maori, Peter Wi. The accused was remanded for a week. The injured man was unable to appear. The affair happened during a drunken squabble, in which accused was said to have used a knife, fWi was stabbed twice in the throat. HAWKE’S BAY. As evidence of the extraordinarily fine weather being experienced locally, the meteorological records for June show that 67 per cent, of the possible amount of sunshine was recorded, while there was only one day in the whole month without sunshine,- and the rainfall was. only ,05in. WELLINGTON. The shareholders in the Wellington Farmers’ JBacon Company, at a meeting Farmers’ Bacon Company, at a meeting at Pahiatua, decided to take steps to reconstruct the company with a nominal capital of £15,000, and a representative committee was appointed. An organiser is to be engaged. At a meeting of the executive of the Citizens’ Carnival Association, the balance sheet, which was submitted, showed a profit of £757. The New Zealand Society of Accountants sued Albert Hamblyn, storekeeper, Ngaruawahia, for. the return of an accountancy certificate isued on the formation of the society. Hamblyn ceased to be a member of the society by reason of his not paying his subscription. Repeated applications for the return of the certificate were not heeded, and action was then taken. Defendant did not appear. Mr Riddell, S.M., ordered the certificate to be returned by July 16, defendant to pay costs (£1 17s 6d). The Palmerston N. Queen Carnival terminated on the 11th. Miss Ellen Millar, a sporting candidate, was elected queen, the voting being as follows: —Miss Millar, 31,336; Miss Taylor, 30,130; Miss Mailman, 10,704; Miss Harris, 10,049; Miss Cook, 3714. The proceeds from the voting and the carnival amount to over £IOOO. The following cablegram has been received by Mrs. Seddon in reply to a message of condolence sent on the death of Mr Joseph Chamberlain :—“ Heartfelt thanks. He had a great regard for you and your husband. —Mary Chamberlain.” Judgment was delivered on Saturday by the Chief Justice in the case of the Public Trustee v.' William Murray and others, an action to interpret the will of David Cusitar Murray, who left a small estate upon trust to be invested for two nieces, whom he designated by wrong names. His Honor ruled that the misnaming of a legatee was not sufficient to disentitle the legatee. The testator’s nieces were therefore entitled to divide the property. * The Wellington Diocesan Synod on the 13th adopted the following resolution; “That this Synod places on record its sorrow and indignation at the proposed action of the Home Government in disendowing the Church in Wales and utilising such money given for religious purposes for secular uses, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr Asquith), the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops of the Church in Wales.

WEST COAST. The coal output last week was:—Westport Company, 13,485 tons 18cwt of coal and 36 tons 13cwt of coke; Westport Stockton Company, 3709 tons Bcwt. Last week’s coal export was 9003 tons 13cwt, consisting of Brunner, 726 tons I3cwt; Blackball, 4176 tons llcwt; Point Elizabeth, 1509 tons scwt; Liverpool, 2005 tons lOcwt; Paparoa, 595 tons lOcwt. CANTERBURY. An action against Messrs G. and W. Bowron and G. J. Smith, of Christchurch, by Messrs Alfred Booth and Co., Liverpool, to recover the sum of £14,500, with interest thereon, making a total of close on £19,000, was mentioned at a Chambers sitting of the Supreme Court on the Bth, when Mr Justice Sim made an order giving four months’ further time to file a statement of defence. Mr Beswick ap-

peared on behalf of the defendants, and Mr Alpcvs for the plaintiffs. The dispute between the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the employers came before the Conciliotion Council on the Bth. The men asked for a 44? hour week and increased pay. The employers would not agree to this, and the case was referred to the court. In the Magistrate’s Court on the 11th Queensland Harry, otherwise known as Harry Cahill, a member of a buckjumping circus at present in town, was charged with assaulting B. Crawford, known as Le Mar (hypnotist), and inflicting severe iniuries, necessitating hospital treatment. The accused was fined £5, with costs (£3 17s). A meeting of representative citizens, including leading commercial and professional men, was held at Timaru on the 13th, when a moderate party was formed for the purpose of combating the no-license movement. Committees were appointed, and it was resolved to work strenuously with other parts of the dominion in the matter.