LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14392, 3 September 1917, Page 4

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association. ) WAIROA, Urn day. Mr Henry Hyde Can-, one of Wairoa'sj oldest military settlers, died suddenly j of heart failure.- oiv' Saturday' evening, in his 73rd year. A native of Liverpool lie came to iNew Zealand in 1860 with lii.s parents. His father was :it one ; time editor of the Hiiwke's I3;iy Herald. Deceased served on the West Coast under Colonel McDonnell. He joined the Hawke's Bay military settlers in 1866, talcing up a land grant at Maruma.ru, but was driven oft" by Hauhau troubles. He joined the A.C. force and. remained in it until its disbandment about 1878. -Subsequently he entered the civil force and was stationed with the- police at Otaki and Waipawa. He served in many .engagements,' including Petone. He married-. -Miss Mary Carroll (now deceased), sister of Sir James, and leaves no issue, but an adopted son, Harold (son of Mr Herbert .Williams), nephew of Sir James Can-oil. The deceased's sister married Major Gascoigne at Hastings. The funeral will take place tormorrow.

NAPIER, this day. The Chief Justice has oi'dered a fourth trial of Wirihan.'i on a chai-ge of manslaughter, three juries having disagreed. The next trial will be at Paknerston North. Tlio charge is the outcome of the death of a newspaper runner .whom Wirihana rim down at Hastings. NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. After meeting with many delays and difHuultie.B the directors of the New Zealand Iron, Ore Smelting Company are now confident of success. During the last eighteen hours furnaces have been tapped seven times, the conditions improving all the time, assuring a continuity which Jias hitherto never been secured. ■

WELLINGTON, this day. s The Wellington fttdck Exchange passed a motion that tlio proposed system of taxing companies will have a far. reaching effect by en using a heavy drop in shares and diminished dividends; that the depreciation in th'e market value of shades "'ill in many cases be very severe, thus causing sHarehojders, large and small, heavy capital losses, as well as diminished income ; that persons thus affected who were disposed.- to borrow 'to invest in the War Lonri are suddenly compelled .to refrain from doing so, fearing embarrassment from theso losses of caoital and income: that the Minister of Finance, is urgently requested -to take these points into "consideration, and to afford reljef by taking each sliareholder on his shave avid other income under ordinary incomo tax, and -us relieve companies from paying tax on dividends.

HOKITHvA, this day. News has been received thai the auxiliary ketch Jane, 21 tons, whioh was stranded on Okura 'bar on Saturday week, has become, a total wreck.

The father, mother, and sister of Qeoi'ges Carpentier, the famoxxs boxer, have heen> in Lens since the beginning of the war, arid Carpentier has been without any news of them for nearly three years.

In regard to the food question in England a Canadian who has just returned from a visit is particularly emphatic. "The whole thing is a. fake in one respect," he stated. "There never was any shortage of food in Britain and there never will be. At the same timo it was in a way a good thing to teach the people economy. For intsanoe, you can get only two ounces of meat 'in a cafe, but if 'you go into a private house you can get all you want. The thing was handled in a way that made mo tired' while I was there and I do not mind saying so. The people of Britain know very well that there is going to be no starvation. Undoubtedly the shipping losses have been he;ivy, but as for starvation — nothing doing."