GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14555, 24 June 1913, Page 2

GENERAL.

LOCAL M GENERAL.

The .'Palmersiton Northi Borough Engineer who went to Gdsiborne t/> tinvestdglate the 'Edison sitoragte'b&tteay tram car system, informed a reporter that he was favourably impressed witih what he had seen of tihe Gas borne trams and he saw no reason why they should not be a success. As to tho details of the workmsr of tiho system he had not.so* far alone mto fcne matter, Twit he oomsidlered tiho traffic returns were n.igjhly satisfactory, considering tihe dhiort section ;n •oipjwia*tion.

.The annual conference of acelimitisation societies will be held in Wellington towards the* middle of next .month.- A proposal is to be put forward by the Auckland Society in the interests of charging for licenses to shoot native game in the same way as in the 'case of imported game, the proposal to be in the form of a l-emit that a license for native game-should .be issued at 10s and that the 20s license-for imported game should include the right to shoot native game, the suggested license being: calculated to bring in a big revenue.

Thus tihe Christ/church correspond eait of the AxicMiand Star: -—. There has been an epidemic of claims ie •millions' in New Zealand lately, but it appears that one of the claimants, a. Ciiristchurcli .reeddieoit, is in no ■ means "in pusiisuit of an, elusive fortune. The gientllemaoi concerned ■« Mr Josetpih Walter, of Marshland, and the amount is £11,500,000. The 'Oa.se/had been mentioned in the papers before. The story is that Rich-aa-d Jolm Walter, an airmy veteran, of Point Oheyialiier, told' a witness;;, tih'at ne was supposed to be heir to «k ilfli'ge fortune. wMch he hadl never i Ibiothei'ied to claim for years. No re--1 iative was discoivered until lately, wihen it w)as fooind. that a 1 bro.tih©r of the army veteran had been living, iiy Christ church for yeans.. Mr Wiaker., is moving to ha.ye his claim mTesitigiated in Chancery, and his son (Mr J. IWlai'ter) -who is ■ welMviiwvn in tliletic circkis in Christchurch, is now on his way to the Old Country with 'proofs of Fdenitity. The infp'rm'a,tion " oanne to Mr Waiter not throiuoh any of the agencies that make a buslines? of luring; people on with visions hf tLrDclSaimed, fortunes, biut firom theJPtulbilic Trustee, who is i&tronfjly of oplinion that the heir h«ns been dis'\coiv'e!red. This ouinion 'has beoi: Sti^erag|th©n©d by" the best legal advice. ! - -„.,- '. :,. „'' •