TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 April 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[I'KR i'liiiSS ASSOCMTION.I FOXTON'S MAIOR.

Foxton, This Day. Mr G. H. Stiles was re-elected mayor unapposed yesterday. This is Mr Stiles's sixth year of office. WAGES IN THE S r l ATE COAL

MINES

Grevmouth, This Day

The wages dispute 111 the State coal mines commenced in the Arbitration Court yesterday. The proposals filed by the Department represent a reduction in the hewing rates and some of the daily wages hands. Counter proposals by the Union are practically the same an the agreement which expired last January and is still m operation. Statements put in by the Department show a debit balance for Point Elizabeth No 1 mine for last year of ;£7,37 t. Another statement put in showed that the average daily earnings of the minersin 1905 was 12s 7d with yearly increases till in November last when the earnings were 19s. The last year's average was 17s 4d. The case is likely to last several days. SWORD AND COLOURS. New Plymouth, This Day. Referring to the tprn and bulletriddled colours and rusty sword handed over to the Defence Minister at Orakau as relics of that engagement a well-informed correspondent of the Taranaki Herald avers they were really relics of the "White massacre.' The flag probably was an adornment of the military settlers' mess-room and was moth-eaten and not bul-let-riddled, and certainly never was a "colour." It is almost certain fhat the sword was Lieut. Gascoigne's.

SUICIDE. Hastings, This Day. George Lansdovrne, aged 40, a single man residing with his father at Havelock North, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat with a butcher s knife. Ho succumbed an hour later. MAX MISSING. Dunedin, This Day. It is feared that a young man named George E. Part ridgy- was d rowneiT uea r Crom wel I. Ty waa the owner of a motor lorry engaged in carrying produce, and was last seen on Tuesday night, and f»n Wednesday morning his machine was found unattended in the middle of the road, about twelve miles from Cromwell. Indications suggest that Partridge went jo the hank of the Upper Clutha river to obtain water for Ins engine, and in the darkness fell in and was drowned. The river at the spot is deep and swift. KILLED BY It AI LAVA Y ENGINE. Gisborne, This Day. * Edwin Whaite. aged ofi, a clerk in the Public Works Department al Rakauroa, was travelling from Rakauroa to Otoko on a jiggei' when he was mn over by a railway engine and killed. He was a widower with seven children.

FNAPPOSED. Thames, This Day. Mr Henry Lowe was re-elected mayor unopposed. This is his M'th term of office. DEPUTATIONS A"tt) BRIDGES. Thames, This Day. The Premier paid a visit to the Thames on Wednesday and received deputations. He gave a speech in the evening. Among ihe matters discussed were the hi idging of the Pinko and Waihou •ivers on the Hauraki plains so as 1o secure direct communication •vith the Thames. BREAD DEARER. Dunedin, This Day. The price of the 4lh lojf_ lias been increased hv id, the cost now being 7Ad. Bakers claim that the increase is moj-p than warranted, and there is no profit in it, owing to the prevailing price of flour at £10 10s per ton. Flourmillers say the price of whenf has been goingup all flic time.