LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12465, 26 May 1911, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) MASTERTON, last night. The directors of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, which is just concluding' a most successful season at the local freezing works, is circularising shareholders, and asking their opinion upon the question of enlarging the works,. -.particularly m . regard to the li^rage capacity,. which, m view of the fluctuation,, of the . markets, is held ' to be- essential. • ". .• A r~ . '. • "WILLING-TON, last night. -' ' It^is notified m to-night's Gazette that a under the Public ' Health Act; j* published m the Gazette of May lßth,v directing -measures to bn taken t6* prevent or check the spread of plague by -"tits",' came into force throughout "Xe&'JZealand' from to-day. vTj4«> prohibition of delivery by the P<H»t) H Ofnce r of correspondence to Peter G'wit and Barnett and Grant, Christcjiuffcn 1 ," has been removed, the Post-jnasteif-'Gieheral being satisfied by a statutory, declaration that the person and firSn "naine*a will not use the post office for' any -illegal > purpose. '; " ,'CHRISTOHURCH, last night. - -The i Hojhe Rule envoys,- Messrs R. Ha-twltou, M' r P., W. A. Redmond, M.P., ' antP J. -Donovan, arrived from Wellington by the .Maori this morning. The delegates > were received- by the Mayor •at-, the.' City Council Chambers at noon to-day, -and- were accorded a civic welcome". .' In-' the - evening they addressed a"; crowded meeting m the Theatre -Rqyal. C . -* The . directors of the Press, to mark the/ jubilee of that journal, have -voted L- 'a.-' substantial -sum to the staff atf/a token of • appreciation of their service's,- and-- m -order that each member may" have some tangible recognition of the -occasion. - The sum voted has' been distributed m amounts proportionate" to jtbe' length of service m each case, without .regard -to the rate of salary or any "other consideration, "and every member .qf the large staff who has been from one year upwards m the service of the com•pany has participated m the distribution. TIMARU, last night. -As a result of the petition of subscribers, it is expected that a continuous telephone service will be inaugurated on June Ist.