LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14635, 19 June 1918, Page 9

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Association). 1 . - .: ■ WEIiLINGTON, last iiiglvt. , > Cabinet to-day, agreed to increase tiie allowance to the ' guardian^ of motherless children of a soldier to 3s 'a. day, the rate allowed to a, soldier's wife. A stokehold' crew has been obtained ; f or the i Pateena, which resumes tomorrow. , J jftef eri'ing to the reported increase m passenger rates across the Pacific horn America to New Zealand and Australia, the Posfcmaster-Gjreneral said he understood 1 that' there was to be a general increase on all fares m British ships, and the first advice was that' thi&" r would apply also to trans-Pacific sliipsl. Since then tho Government had received contradicting. feyortH, .and' was conferring with the Union Company to see what the position wa*> exactly. The Government was directly interested, because the conditions under which the subsidy to the Vancouver service' was paid might be affected. One of the conditions of payment of. the subsidy waa that' passengers should , be carried' at 1 ; a certain rate. The Government/would, have. to discusu with the XJnipn Company -.whether tho proposed increase inmates. waa justifiable. A number of purchases -of land suit«ibie fori 6ccupatitfn byHeturiied ; soldiers ;in small-holding's '.were' approved by "Cabinet to : day. was being dbnej Mi*. Guthiie- ' aaid provision had been made for the returned soldier" wanting good* land foiv dairying. The Government had received -'several offers of such land m suitable localities where there was every ciliaaice of settlers^jnak•ing good 1 . of these pro^ei'tieK had already been purchased and returned soldiers were Waiting to" take them up. ,The pnees paid were sucl/thatHhe Land 'Purchase Board was convinced 'that soldiers going on the land: had the very best, prospects of success. A number of. •farmp' had 1 ' heeri ptirchafied from' 1 men going, to the .front, men returning frdin ; the wax would be taking the places of men going on service. The A^tirig-PrimerMinister states that ■Stir Thos. Mackenzie has been re-appoint-ed High Commissioner for a. further .periodi of fotir' months. | GREYMPUTH, last night. Lieutenant S. Fricikleton was accorded a mpst e'nthusia«'<Jic : l-eception to-niglit. From' Otii-ai i'lght through 'to • Gfey?»iouth J}e was %y ( elcomed ajicl: c beeved r He was .met .at the station and escprfced 16 Ins hotel, -by,: masked., bands and at 7.30 was publicly welcomed at' the Town Hall. -The reception Avas the most enthusiastic ; efsr y seeii \n these parts. 1 v ; ; {QA^L4JiIJ, last .night. At the Corpner'p inquiry into the death of George Swati BUrke, Wjio^was mjrdered at''Gemmeirs'9rosßirig,' rieai* 'Oa"maru, ,on"*the 'ey^nirig- oor^ r April M, evidence w J^s~"suibrmtt(ia' ; l)3r %he police. Tlie^CoVonfer recorded l' 'the f olio whig" verr dicC : ''That Geyi-ge -Sivali Burk^ was iTiurderedr|by OnsTo.tv Mayh'^w; b^'jnean^ of a bullet discharged from d'-riffc£ at Gemmell]s Cr6s' t sing' t *6n f y\pril 14, 1918.