NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1851, 10 September 1913, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Frees AsaoolftUon.) 1> THE AGED CHINESE. WHAT THE INSPECTOR FOUND. Auckland, September 9. A Cliineso named Quaiig Cheong Pa, 82 years -of ago, was found dead in bed this morning, under unusual circumstances. Neighbours had complained to Mr. Haynes, chief sanitary inspector for tho city, and lio went to tho house in tho morning. Costing no reply to his requests for admittance, ho forced tho back door, and made his way to a bedroom, .and tliore saw tho aged Chinese dead on his bed. Tho police were! communicated with, and Constable Wollendalo went to tho house and discovered that tho body was in a highly decomposed state. From postmarks on certain letters that had boon pushed under tho front door, it was obvious that deceased had not been about since July 25, and other indicatipnß were that acath liad occurred about that date. No real examination has yet licen possiblo, but it was noticed that tbcro was a pool of blood under tho bed. Deceased was a well-known Chinese identity in Auckland, and was reputed to bo worth something over £1000 abovo tho vaJuo of tho property in which he lived, lio lived alono b tho liouso. AGENT & CLIENTS. RELATIONS DEAL. Wangatiul, September 9. Tbo right of a commission agent to recover oonimission from both parties in respect to. an exchange of properties was tho point at issue in a caso heard at tlio ,Supreme Court to-day when W. M. Ashton and Sou, land agents, sued J. J. of Palmerston North, for £100. Tho evidence given by Ashton, juu., was to tho effect that tho wholo position had been fully explained to Hills and that .the commission had been fixed at £100. In consequenco of his firm receiving commission from tho othersido. Defendant said that lie had agreed to a payment of £100 instead of tho proper commission which was £150 in conscqiienco of his not receiving full payment from tho othor party, and that ho was not awaro that plaintiffs were receiving commission from tho other sido. His Honour (Sir Robert Stout) accepted plaintiffs' evidcnco and gave judgment for him with costs. Tho same parties wcro concerned in a second caso in which £142 16s. 3d. was at stake. This was commission on : another land deal. Tlio main point in tho defonco was that instructions as to • tho property had been givea verbally before tho coming into force of legislation dealing with land agents. Tho salo did not bate placo till afterwards, and though the instructions were confirmed after, wards they wore not signed by tho pop. son to bo charged as tho Act specifies. After hearing argument his Honour said that, as tho caso was. tho first under the Act, ho would tako timo to cousidof his decision. • BANKRUPTCY LAW. Daniiovirke, September 9. Tho. Dannovirko Chamb'or of Commerce considered last night a suggestion by Mr. T. H, G. Lloyd, solicitor, that tlio bankruptcy law bo altered. Ho pointed out that if a preferential payment was mado by a bankrupt at present it can only bo sot aside if tho debtor is adjudged bankrupt within tlireo months of the "making, taking, paying, or suffering the same.' Ho suggested that this provision bo altered by substituting tho date of presentation of tlio petition for adjudication in bankruptcy. All a debtor now had to do was to mako a preferential payment and go, into hiding for several months and tho transaction would stand. ■ The Chamber 'decided to support tlio proposal a 'nd in- . voko tho aid of Chambers of Commerce throughout tho'Dominion with;-a view t<? legislative action. UNEMPLOYMENT AT TIMARU. Tlmaru,. September 9. Seventy men, 44 of them married!, assembled, at tlio invitation of tho Mayor and council, to meet a committee appointed to seo if work could bo got for ilio unemployed. From their statements' tho difficulty of obtaining employment arose within the past two months. It was supposed that most of the unemployed turned up and satisfac- • tion was expressed that tlio number was not so largo as had been reported. Tho result of tho meeting was that tho council's committee instructed the engineer to put tho 44 married men on to various municipal jobs, somo of which may be shorti Tlio single men were referred to tho Labour Department from which an invitation was_ received to rofer any men not provided for. The Levels County Council meet specially, to-day to seo if any moil can bo put ou 1 to tido over tho slack season. COTTAGE HOSPITALS. ' Napier, September 9. The Hospital Board approved tho proposal to establish a cottago hospital at Hastings to deal. with urgent cases which might bo prejudiced by the journey into Napier. A committee was set up to.go into tho matter. LITTLE CIRL LOST. Whangarei, September 9. An eighteen months old child, tho daughter of Mr. George Fyffe, of Parahaki,.]ias been missing since 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She was put on a verandah with the house dog, and loft. Shortly afterwards sho was missed. A dam in tho neighbourhood has been unavailingly searched. It was Fyffo's son who was recently shot at. Parahaki by another;boy, who was tried for murder. PROSECUTION & POISON. Hastings, September 9. Patrick M'Namara, aged 50, attempted to commit suicide this afternoon uy drinking poison. Ho now lies in a private hospital, but Ihis condition is not regarded as serious. On Saturday last M'Namara was committed for trial ou charges of arson and making a false declaration in connection with goods destroyed in a recent firo at Treaelo Lano, Hastings. FILMS AS EDUCATORS. Chrlstchurch, September 8. Tho North Canterbury Board of Edu» cation has decided to mako a trial of moving pictures as an aid to primary education. Matinees nro to bo held on Fridays for pupils in Standards \ and VI. Tho programme is to bo arranged by a committoo of headmaster and a charge of oiio penny will be made- , DIVORCE CASES. Chrlstchurch, September 9. At tho Supremo Court to-day a decree nisi was granted in tho caso Maries v. Maries, a wifo's petition, . and in tho case of Bryant v. Bryant, & husband's petition. BRIEF MENTION. Goro, September 9. A largolv-attended and representative 'meeting of professional and business men last evening decided to form a Chamber of Commerce. Officers wero elected.

The 6imt>lest and most effeotivo rem« odv l'or Coughs and Colds is "NAZOL." No cold can resist it It must go! CO doses in a bottle for Is. Gd,—Aclvt, At the Levin stock sale to be held on; Friday, September 12, 1913, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., will offer for sulo, at 11.30 a.m.", 10 nrinio l'at cows and eight priuie fat bulMessrs. J. T. Horn, Ltd., of Wellington, invito inquiries for'particulnVs of Moutcr* appln lands. The advertisers stato that intending orchardists should not commit themselves to purchase land elsewhere without inauiring liero first.