NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 69, 18 September 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Wellington, Sept. 17

The Couucil of the Chamber of Com merce disapproves of the differential duty on beet sugar suggested by the Colonial Refining Cempany. It was de cided to write to the other Chambers, urging them to protest against it. It was contended that beet sugar has been instrumental in somewhat cheapening the price of sugar locally.

Blenheim. This Day. A decomposed body, supposed to be that of the missing man Harry Satherley, has been found in the river about half a mile from town, this morning.

Auckland, This Day. A native sirl foil into a boiling hole at Rotorua and died after much agony.

The Auckland members received a deputation of Waikato farmers who urged the importance of the sugar beet industry. The members resolved the production of sngar from sugar beet root ought to be encouraged by Parliament by the offer of a more substantial bounty than that afforded by the present law.

In response to a deputation of school teachers the members decided an en deavor should be made to induce the Government to amend the Teachers' Court of Appeal Act which, owing to the provisions of a previous Act over riding those of the measure lately passed still allows teachers to be dismissed on three months' notice without appeal ; to pro* vide for a uniform scale of salary for tpachers throughout the colony and a uniform system of teaching and paying pupil teachers.

Nklson, Sept. 17. Mr Graham addressed his constituents to-night and spoke of Mr W r ard's case, explaining his views thereon. He said if the late election was legal the law required amendment, and while refusing to believe that the Government would endeavor to restore Mr Ward as a Minister, said he could not support such a step, and he would place himself in the hands of his constituency in such an event.