TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 June 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

|ri!H I'KKH* ! A HORRIBLE DEATH. AUCKLAND, This Bay. Clifford Oldham, aged seven, diea ,ns the result of falling into a copper His motlier heard screams from the wasliliouso and found the child partly immersed in the boiling wator. He succumbed after three days from congestion of the lungs, duo to shock. SEAMEN STRIKERS. WANGANUI, Tills 1%. A deadlock in connection with the steamer Putiki continues. Last evening the seamen promised to sign articles, but when approached this morning only two signed, six refusing on the grounds that ellington was not the port of signing off as provided by the articles. It is understood the agents liavo sent to Wellington for meu to roplaco those who refused to sign the articles. MOVING PICTURES. NAPIER, This Day. Mr .Justico Chapman occupied the Supreme Court bench here to-day, when hearing was commenced of the civil action, New Zealand Picture Supplies Company v. Thompson and Payne, a claim for £193 9s 9d in respect of postage on films and £5273 6s 8d damages in respect of alleged breach of contract. The statement claim set out that delendants agreed to tako supplies of films from the plaintiffs for their Napier and Masterton houses, at £25 and £10 per night respectively, the contract being binding for tlireo years. Hearing of evidence is proceeding. MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE. ■PALMERSTON N., This Day.

At a representative meeting ol dairymen, addressed by Mr W. D. Lysnar last nigh, the following resolution was moved by Mi 1 A. E. Washer, a director of the Allan Dairy Company, seconded by Air Powdrell. Chairman of Directors of the Kaupo kouui Dairy Company and tho Pater. Freezing Works, and carried: "That in view of the very unsatisfactory results regarding the handling and marketing of our dairy produce through London, this meeting recommends the dairy factories to utilise the proposed Bristol and Dominion Producers' Association for receiving and marketing produce in England on lines suggested, and give it our practical support by each individual factory taking a few shares in the Association."