NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 September 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

Fatal Accident. Auckland, This Day. Peter Sinclair, aged 60, was killed by a fall of earth at Porootaras railway works. Poultry Shipment. Wellington, This Day. The shipping companies have reduced the freight on poultry to South Africa and London to 2s per cubic foot, which is equal to about Is Id per pair, or about 6d less than at present. This includes all such chargei as wharfage, insurance, grading and packing.

Divorce Court. ||A.t the Divorce Court .decrees nisi in the cases of John White v. Harriet White and James Hodge y. Mary Hodge were given. Judgment in the case of Ppx v. Pox was reserved. Result of Labour Legislation. Inuercaegill, September 5. At a meeting of the creditors of Robert Fleck, a farmer at Riverton, it was stated that the debtor had failed because of a judgment of the Supreme Court giving Noah Kair £594 damages for injury, and through loss by the burning of a threshing mill.

Alleged Indecent Assault. The jury in the case against Conrado Fortune, pupil teacher at the Orcpuki school, charged with indecently assaulting a pupil, after deliberating two hours returned a verdict of not guilty. The girl had just turned 14 years and became a mother last week.

Farmers’ Co-operative Association. The first annual meeting of tlie Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association was held at Gore to-day, but the business Laving practically been commenced since tlie balance-sheet was made up there was little to report. The chairman (Mr. Murdock) said that he had since sold 20,000 bags of oats, 4,000 live stock, manures, etc., and was now prepared to supply all the fai’mers’ requirements, domestic and other. It was resolved that when 500 shares were taken in the Southern and Western districts, the head office bo removed to Invercargill.