LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13699, 1 June 1915, Page 8

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

ifur Press Association.) , AUCKLAXDi last night. Last week, at the annual meetiug of the Terminating Building Society, it was. 'proposed that 18450 be donated to the Hospital Ship Fund, but an, amendment, moved by Mr John Payne, M.P., that the amount be reduced to 2£d was carried by 75 votes to 64. To-night the directors <«f, the society considered the matter fully aiid finally' voted £450 to the ' Hospita- Ship Fund., 'Ihey further announced that "if their action is challenged' fcUey will call a further general meeting to get confirmation of their action.

TIMARU, last night. Daniel O'Brien, a single man, of between 60 and 70, who has been working abojit the St. Andrew's district for many years and lived by lumself m a hut m the Qtaio river bed, was found burned to" death m the remains of the hut on Sunday morning. At an inquest three men "gave, evidence that they were fit tho hut on Saturday night, and one of them; took two gallons of beer, which fltas ■• not finished* when they left. A fourth was named and the inquest ad./ourned. . ' INV^RCARGILL, last night. . "Farmers m Southland were considerably alarmed ori Saturday when it was realised that . only . one steamer would load meat at the Bluff m June, . talcing some' few thousand ' carcases — not ;ehongh to relieve the works for a week: Feed is geting scarce, and the .consequences will undoubtedly be 'most serious unless space for at least another 100,000 carcases is allotted for June and early July shipment. There is talk of a deputation going to Wellington to lay the position before the Shipping Committee. There is a- feeting m Southland that at the last sitting of the Committee the claims of Southland had been most unfairly dealt with. ■