LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16824, 27 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A fire destroyed Rugb.es' joinery works at Glebe. The damage is not ascertainabie.—(Sydney cab]e.) A further, conference regarding wool is to be held to-day between the wool growers' committe" and the Hon. W. D- S. Macdonald, Minister of Agriculture- ■•,'■■■. At the Rotorua Court on Saturday, iive of Rua's followers were charged with perjury, in stating at a former trial that they saw Constable Skiqner fire the first shot in the Maungapohatu affray. The accused were remanded till December 4. As a result of a confprence between representatives of the State Coal Miners' Union ; and» the Hon. W. D S Macdonald, a complete settlement has been arrived at .in regard to differences relating to the working conditions in the State, coal mines.

■ The Pacific Cable Board notifies tha« owing to the large influx of international traffic, -acceptance of week-en J service to Great Britain is suspended forthwith. Messages to Canada *r the United States, and E.F.N.A. telegrams, are"' not effected. On Wednesday nest a special effort is to be mad© by the Hospital Guild in aid of the Red Cross Fund ot the sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers. The full details of the proI posed effort will be duly announced, but the feature --wili be flowers, sweets, and variety stalls, and, an; unique exhibition of war trophies. Cable .advice has. been received by the Base Records Office-from Londoi. ' worded as follows :—"lnform Mrs^Morns, Taranaki, Private T. H. Morris, [6th Wiltshire Regiment, was killed m action November 2nd." The address is obviously incomplete, and an effort ito obtain a fuller address by the secretary of the patriotic committee at New Plymouth *, has not met with any good result. Ths Director of Base Records would be obliged if readers knowing the whereabouts of Mrs Morris would communicate same to his office a§ early as possible. v In a statement about cable messages for wounded or invalided soldiers, a;, announcement from the General Post Office 'whs .published the other day which, by an error in transcribing, gave the Base Records Office in London a., the meaning of the code address "Zeadvocate." It should be noted that "Zeadvoca.te" meaais New Zea--land Army Postal Service. . Cable messages for wounded and invalided soldiers should not be addressed care -f the Ba^e'Records Office, but care of >ho 'New Zealand Postal Service ("Zeadv'cate.").