DOMINION NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15175, 13 September 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

[United Press Association.]

T v • A . Napier, Sept. 12. 11be. ram continues, and rivers are in high flood. Reports from surroundin" tats state that the sheep losses £S

. . . Dunedin, Sept. 12 Miss Christina Oiurae Has donated on behalf of her late brother DanS S at?% £I(KS' the, cost of five ™°™ m the Boss Home for Aged People. 1W ? ollc2 Ccmrt tui-day> Henare Parata charged on two informations with obtaining money by false pretences,was sentenced to twelvemonths' reformative treatment on one charge and convicted and- ordered to come lip tor sentence on the second charge ~ ~ ~ . Wellington, Sept. 12. At the Magistrate's Court to-day on charges of sly grog-selling, Leonard Kussell was sentenced to two months imprisonment and Harry Spooner to one month.

. Christchurch, Sept. 12 A prisoner named Reginald Matthews ;& w A as Q+ 8 1 cn J tene^ at -Christchurch -on Augusi, Bth to nine months' imprison-

'ti o tovereargi", Sept. 12. Ihe Southland County Council has decided to forward to the Government'an estimate of the cost of the damage done to roads by extra traffic due to the rkiln? yrhl ' With a re(JUest payment oi the amount. At the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Wilkinson stated that the Union Company during the war made freights payable Newiwi^* Praf ice workea »c"for New[Zealand. importers, but now, owing to the high value of the rupee, the pracJholfc 3*& lo£? t0 ew Zealand merchants on the shipment of goods in the ridSff 10 Wr 8 + \ bm£ ■ W*>- It was def«S^ to*i? 8k % Umon Company to-re-