GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 September 1924, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

WOOLSHED, DESTROYED: (Bi TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! BLENHEIM, Sept. 25. A fire at Mr C. L. Kater’s property, u. “Black Rock,”' Wailiopai Valley, de■L stroyed a practically new woolshed. The building contained the usual plant and paraphernalia of a. woolshed, but machines. A Denis motor-car, which W' -JjVas also in the shed, was destroyed. W 'The car wts. insured for £350 and the s%ed, was insured for £4OO, both insurances being in the Liverpool, London and .Globe Office. They will not cover Mr Kater’s losses. SALE OF WAKATU. WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. The small coastal steamer Wakatu, which is ashore near the mouth of the Clarence river, has been sold to James Johnston, of Kaikoura, for £225. Levin and Co. offered the vessel for sale by tender. It is understood that attempts, will be made to refloat the vessel, which was sold as 6lie stood. UNITED STATES POLITICS. NEW YORK. Sent. 24. According to a. despatch from Syracuse, re-nomination of the entire Democratic state ticket is promised at tomorrow’s convention, including the Governor, with an anti-Ku Klux Klan pronouncement, and a demrind that . prohibition law modification be included in paid of the platform.