NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 20 July 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IBj Tcleeraph-Pren AuoolatloaJ ►_ FLAX MILLERS PERTURBED.

EFFECT OF RECENT JUDGMENT. Palmerston, Juno 19. Flos millers throughout tho district are much concerned ut the decision given by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) that injunction shall issuo against them (or using running waters for the discharge of flax containing green matter. Officers of tho New Zealand Flax Millers' Association declare that there is no practicable way of filtration, and that the stoppage of their use of river waters means the stoppage of the industry, and that fiftytwo mills in this district 11:11 st close down directly tho injunction is granted. They atid that they have tried various means without success, as all forms of ultration havo proved inadequate. One. miller states that tho outflow from his mill is 18D gaMons per minute, and, tor every raghV tens ol flax treated, there is , six tons of green refuse which flows out with the water. They havo not yet been aMo to find any practicable means of stopping all 01 this from going through, ana, if any goes through at all, they would be liable to damages under in junctions. The dairy factories are in an equally bad case under the judgment, and various injunctions are. already - threatened. It is practically certain that legislative assistance will bo called fox to save'Uμ industry. .

"RATHER EXTRAORDINARY." Gisbornc, July .19.. . A case containing peculiar features was mentioned at tho Police Court.this morn- ' ing, when a. man named John Thos. Stone-, avresteil tit YJhiit&tutu on a warrant issued at Christchuvch. in October, 1907, was charged with wife desertion. , Sergeant Hiifton explained that there were certain features about tho • caso which were rather ' extraordinary. The man had handed him a newspaper showing that ho had deserted his wifo on his wedding day, and that e. divorce was. granted by Judgo Edwards at Auckland last November. Ho (tho sergeant) had wired to Christctarch for particulars, and had received. a • reply that. nothing ■ was known about a divorce. The case-was rcmandixi until to-morrow to enable further inquiries to be made.

OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY.. Dunedin, July 19. • At a meeting of the Otago Central Railway League to-day it was decided to renew efforts to have the line, extended to Hawea. .

THE SALVAGE STEAMER WAIROA. . Dunedin, July 1?. Tho salvage steamer Wairoa, which.was . fitted oiib for Uie purpose of proceeding ■ to Auckland Islands to recover treasure . lost in the General Grant, is now the properly of Messrs. Stevenson aodCook, Port Chalmers, who havo effected a. , settlement i with tho salvage syndicate, satisfied tho claim of tho mortgagee, and liquidated all debts on tho vessel. The Wairoa. is. still at Port Chalmers, but it is understood that a northern fi,rm is negotiating for tho purchase of her.

FOUND DEAD. . Gore, July Iβ. A man, apparently 80: years old, wa* found dead by school children in one of the domains this afromoon. He' had' evidently been dead for some days. Nothing was found on the body to indicate identification. The body was taken tho morgue, and the police are making inquiries.

SHIPWRECK RELIEF. ' Dunedin, July 19. At tho request of tho. Mayor of <Lytte.lton tho Shipwreck Tfelief Society has forwarded further relief to tho wives and children of thosb lost on the dredge Manchester. ■ . ■

AU.CKLAN D,. LAND . VAL.UES. Auckland, July 19. .. Tho Shakespeare Hotel, at the corner of Wyndham and Albert Streets, has been teeld for .£15,500. When the value of. tho building is considered, the price of land per foot works out at about ,£IBO.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT. Christchurch, July 19. ' Tho Canterbury Trades and Labour Council has decided to write to' the Min-< ister for Internal Affairs, requesting him 1 to have tho Weights and Measures Act rigidly enforced, ,And_ drawing his attention to the evidence given before the Cost of Living Commission.