Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3868, 2 May 1906, Page 3

Telegrams.

Wellington, This day,

On making inquiries the New Zealand Government has ascertained that the famine in Japan and the hardships endured by the people ore more severe than was at first thought to be the case. The Japanese Government having intimated that the effects ot the famine were underestimated and that it was prepared to receive assistance, the New Zealand Government has forwarded i‘looo as a contribution from this colony for the relief of the suffering. The Premier received quite a sheaf of congratulatory telegrams yesterday on entering his fourteenth year of office. To a Post reporter whi called upon him, Mr Seddon declared himself a humanist, and ho said that the Act which he was proudest of passing into law was the Old-age Pensions Act. He added that other measures of which ho was proud were those which provided for the protection of women and children, and for the payment of proper wages to children for their labor. “All the legislation which I have brought to bear upon the human side of life is the legislation which counts most with me. There is much talk of men being Radicals, Conservatives, Socialists, Liberals —I am neither. lam a humanist. I desire to improve the condition of the people, to inspire them with hope, to provide for their comfort, and to improve them socially, morally and politically.” Chbistchuech, This day.

Sir John Hall has within the last few days disposed of between 28,000 and 29,000 acres of his well-known Hororata Estate to a local syndicate for delivery early next year, reserving to himself the Homebush Block, of between 2000 and 8000 acres. The purchasers intend subdividing and disposing of the bulk of the estate for close settlement.

Donedin, This day. r James Farland, a resident of Mornington, t.ttempted to commit suicide yesterday morning by cutting his throat. He was found by two men on the road with an ugly gash in his throat, from which a considerable quantity of blood had flowed. The wound was apparently made with a table knife. It is not considered dangerous. Farland has been in bad health for some time, and has lately suffered from insomnia.