Second Edition. TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1912, Page 3

Second Edition. TELEGRAMS.

| rat PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PA l/.MIOHSTON A. AND P. SIIOW. PALM KRSTON X-, This Day. '11k- weather i.s line hut (lull for lie optMiiiiLC (fay of the Manawatu mi minor Slh>w. Tin 1 entries are a ■ecord, and tliu attendance is up to he best of previous years' shows I'lie stock exhibition is particubi-ly line, especially the dairy cattle, vhicli numerically show a big advance on previous years. .Induing s proceeding. MARRIOTT ARRI-XPFJ). G I.SHORN 1 10. October '2!>. I*"(lin<ind Marriott, hairdresser, 'of I'ahiatua. who was reported a leulavs auo as having mysteriously disippeared, was arrested in Gisborne ;o-d.ay by Serjeant 11 iibt-o 11 and fVective Mitchell on a charge of .\ire lesertion. He was working in a ncal hairdressing saloon. A 10uand to I'ahiatua will be asked lor o-uiorrow. KII/U'.D ON TilK WHARF. ORIOYMOI'TH. October '2 : J. Ilans Sykes, aged <0, a. wharl labmrer was killed on the wharf tolay. Me was sitting on a statioiiiry truck when another truck which vas shunting collided' with hi-,l-nck. Deceased wa.s thrown on t.he ■ails jind the truck passed over his mad. He wa.s picked up dead. OR.AIN ANT) PPODUCK. CIITMSTCIII'Ri'H. October 2!). Hiisiness is fairly quiet. The >rincipal tiling doing is in connec inn with arranging for cargo for loats leaving next niontli. '1 he 35s Yeiglit. however, does not leave nuch hope for pro Jit. but "an outlet s at last afforded tor stocks on land. There is practically nothing •oniiiiLC in I roiri the country. tuning over grain in store forming the nr.in part of the trade that i.s '.Wising. Ifc is not likely that there ,vill Ik- any quantity of wheat shipped, owing to the prospects oi a diort crop in the coming season, the bulk of the exports arranged for born: oats and peas. Potatoes are iVill lirnier in consequence of the mod demand and short supplies. Prices are £7 10s and CR at country stations, according to the distance, ind offerings are becoming very ■unall. IUIT/WAY OKKK'IORS. N API KK. October 20. At a meeting of the local branch )l' the Railway Oliicers' Society,, a resolution was passed expressing disappointment that the unanimous findings of the 1011 Parliamentary Commission with regard to concessions had not been carried out iu their entirety, and deprecating the principle of curtailing concessions to lower paid officers cm the score ol expense. while at the same time granting substantial increases to llie heads of Departments. liPri/DKRS' ASSOCIATION. ]) I Witt) IN. October The thirteenth annual conference oi' the Hiiildor.s' Association ->vas opened to-day. The following resolution Was carried: -''That tin Government should make it optiona for contractors tendering for Governments works to either find bondsmen or make a cash deposit : that all Government- works be submitted jo public tender: that the Publu Works Department be a.sked to receive and accept tenders for Government contracts without com polling contractors to furnish schedules of quantities at time of tendering,

KLVDFRGARTEXS. 'DUN 101)1 X, October 20. The Kindergarten Associations' Conference has affirmed that it is most desirable that steps should be taken immediately to federate, with certain limits, the four kindergarten associations of the Dominion, the details to be left for consideration nt. an adjourned conference next -J anna rv. "WnriM'lXG" THE STREAM. (/HJIhSTCJi URCH, October 2!). Fishing has been indifferent; so far tlii.s .season, but one of the biggest lakes ever made in the district was reported to-day. On Sunday and Monday nights throe local anglers took !)('i trout, averaging -I:'{lb., from the Tlalswoll River at Motukn rn ra.