LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15276, 26 July 1920, Page 7

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

**»1 I -■ (Per Press Association.) ROTORUA, last night. At 4.50 p.m. on Saturday, Hector D. Urquhart, a returned soldier, aged about 30, when attempting to cross the railway line at Mamaku, in front of the incoming Rotorua express, was caught by the engine and his legs were severed. He was brought tp Rptprua hps^jtaj, where he wag ppprated op, but he died about 9.30. He had drawn a section at Rotama and had been in Rotorua on business. He was returning to Auckland by the afternoon train, which passes the' express at Maniaku. ' TIMARU, ] aa t night. At auction a 66ft frontage in Stafford Street, the busiest part of the town, On which are five one-storey shops, was sole) at _15,000 to Hallenstein and 0o f and the Timaru Herald Company conjointly. The South Canterbury Farmers' Union executive discussed the wheat shortage, and declared that the position is serious. Some members blamed the Government for not fixing the prico of the last crop early enough. "A motion in favor of the petition that a license to buy meat be given Armour and Gq. was lost. The Chamber of Gomnienpe has telegraphed to local M.-s.P. that the building trade here is stopped for want of cement ; 489 tons are arriving there fjrpm Auckland, bpt «jj] i§ cpmmapdeßred for ine Arthur's Pass works. Members have been urged to see the Minister and got half for urgent requirements here.