NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

BY TELEGRAM —PKESS ASSOCIATION. PURCHASE OF A PATENT SLIP. WELLINGTON, December 3. The statement that the Union Company has bought the patent slip at Hjvans Bay is confirmed, but the price is not mentioned. The Patent Slip Company for a number of years has received a subsidy under an Act of Parliament, but this lapsed some time ago. It is expected that the Union Company will go to considerable expense in adding a wharf and improved appliances, as the site is close to that portion of Evans Bay which is to be reclaimed. The Wellington papers are hinting at the purchase coming just when this undertaking had been decided on, and foreshadow the removal of tl e Union Company's headquarters to Wellington. A DISHONOURED CHEQUE. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. AUCKLAND, December 3. At the Supreme Court, to-day, a claim for £1,200 damages was made i by Charles Augustus Watson, a gum merchant, against the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, in respect of a cheque for £3OO 5s which was returned to the payee dishonoured. The facts of the case were that the plaintiff, who had recently started in business for himself as a gum merchant, after having been employed in charge of Mr A. Nathan's business for over twenty in a similar capacity, gave a cheque to a Mr Millar. The cheque was duly v presented by Mr Millar and dishonoured by the bank. On the date the cheque was issued (a Friday) plaintiff left town, returning on the following; Monday. Plaintiff had sufficient money to his credit at the bank at the time to meet the cheque, and the fact of its being dishonoured was a mistake on the part of the bank. The plaintiff claimed that in consequence of the bank's action his credit had been impaired and his business practically ruined. The jury returned a verdict for £SO damages. ■i i '< SUICIDE OF A SHEARER. CISBORNE, December 3. At Whangara a native named Herbert,, one of a party of shearers, committed suicide by hanging himself in his tent, after domestic trouble. A BODY IDENTIFIED. GISBORNE, December 3. With reference to the body fourd on the beach, yesterdav, it appeals that a man named Anderson saw tt e deceased go into the water on Sunday, but did not take further notice of him. The body has been identified by a man who slept in the sameroom with him at a lodging house as that of David Y. Kirk. At the inquest on Kirk, a verdict of found drowned was returned. IMPROPERLY ELECTED. AN ERROR OF TWENTY YEARS' STANDING. DUNEDIN, December 3. Legal opinion obtained on the matter is to the effect that six trustee? elected, yesterday, as members of the benevolent trust were improperly elected, the bodies concerned not being directly represented at the elections. This position has gone on for twenty years without protest hitherto. A suggestion has been made that the Governor should be asked to fix a day for another election. AUCKLAND'S NEW POST OFFICE. AUCKLAND, December 3. The new post office, which will be erected on the railway station site, will be an imposing building, having a frontage to Queen Street of 212 feet and a depth of 150 feet. It is estimated to cost £85,000. Provision will be made for a new railway station immediately behind the post office.

PROGRESSIVE WELLINGTON. A NEW RECLAMATION SCHEME. WELLINGTON, December 3. It is considered practically certain that the proposal which has been before the committees of the City Council and the Harbour Hoard to reclaim a wide area of Evans Bay will be taken up,shortly and eventually carried to a successful issue. The idea is to win from the sea at the head of Evans Bay, an inlet of the harbour, land suitable the carrying on of industries requiring considerable ground space, it being considered that the provision of such land would stimulate industries now in operation and encourage the starting of new manufactures. The scheme involves the reclamation of over a hundred acres, with the erection of wharves, facilities for boatbuilding, etc. The Harbour Board has agreed to the scheme, and it is anticipated that the council will endorse it at next Thursday's meeting. NEW PLYMOUTH BAND CONTEST. WELLINGTON GARRISON BAND WILL NOT COMPETE. WELLINGTON, December 3. The Wellington Garrison Band has, principally owing to its financial position, decided not to compete at the New Plymouth contest in February next.' It has recently incurred heavy liabilities in purchasing a nsW set of instruments.