LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) AUOKLAND, last night. The financial position of the Exhibition Amusements, Ltd., is explained by reports and balance-sheet prepared for the general meeting of shareholders. They show that the Tesult from tho operations of "Wonderland" during the period' of the exhibition was a net loss of £3820, and among the business of the meeting wiU be consideration of a proposal that tlie company should go into liquidation. NEW. PLYMOUTH, last night, Mr Justice Stringer delivered judgment m the case, m wliich the widow of Francis Smith, the victim of the Kaimata tragedy, sued . his dmployers, the New Zetland Express Company, for compensation for his death when engaged on behalf of the company. The judge held that death was not directly due to any special risk arising from theNjature of his employment, and gayo judgment for defendant, with costs WELLINGTON, last night. The timber workers' conference to-day decided to draw attention to the growing scarcity of timber, to the advisablcness of taking foreign importations of small timber, to the necessity for reduction m freights for what are technically known as "shorts" (that is second and third-class timbers iioav destroyed at the mills), and the need of experiments for finding a suitable timber to take the place of wliite pine for butter boxes. Tawhara was suggested as a substitute m the latter case, as it was,, almost odorless. GREYMOUTH, last night. The transfer of a liquor license a distance of 66 miles was successfully accomplished yesterday, when an application by Mr A. O'Donnell for an accommodation license at Waiutu, Blackwater .nrine_ was granted by the Westland Licensing Committee. Tlie modus operandi, was to allow the old Humphrey's Gully hotel license, for premises about ten miles from Hokitika, to lapse, thereby making an apparent opening. The police and Mr 0. Wagstaff, of Waiutu, strongly objected, and, although the Magistrate, as chairman, and one other member of the committee opposed the application as illegal, a majority of the committee decided to grant the license. PAHLVTUA, last night. The Borough Council has "decided to take a poll of ratepayers on a proposal to raise a, further loan of £10,000 for an electric light and -power scheme. A poll will also be taken on a proposal to build al new post office m ono of the. garden squares m the centre of the town. ' ■*

INVERCARGILL, last night.

The Invercargill Competitions Society has again an excellent entry for the forthcoming festival. Details show keen competition m the leading classes. Tlie aggregate figures are : Music 982, elocution 393, literature; drawing, writing, spelling, and sewing 371 ; physical drill, dancing and half-hour entertainments 367— total, 2114. Tlie judges this year are Messrs Montague (elocution) and Gregson (music), of Auckland.