TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 February 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[PBK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] EXCURSION ¥ ARES IN THE NORTH ISLAND. Rotor ua, This Day. The largest and most representative doputation that ever waited upon any Ministor in Rotorua; interviewed! the Hon. Mr Herries last night, when l he business men asked that excursion fares to Rotoroa be issued by ordinary oxpress on $he Auckland-Thames lines on Saturday, available for return till the following Friday; also that excursion tickets be isued on all North Island lines on one day a month available for one month. The' Minister promised 'that the proposal or as nearly a similar scheme as practicable V given a reasonable trial.

FLOUR MILL DESTROYED. Dunedin, This Day. Harraway and Son's nourinill .t Green Island was destroyed by fire early this morning. The , mill and contents are a total loss. The adjoining mill store was saved, but the contents were damaged. The cause of the fire is unknown. The '"'II was closed at five o'clock yesterday evening. The insurances total £10,645 in the Commercial Union which largely re-insurod in locfcl offices.

A BOXER'S DEATH. Gisborne, This Day. Archibald Leonard Forman, aged 16, engaged in an amateur boxing tournament last evening, was knocked out. Ho threw in the towel after the first round and when walking to the dressing loom lie collapsed. Subseejuently it was found that he was suffering from hemorrhage of the brain and died early this morning. Forman, earlier in the evening, won the middle-weight contest and subsequently appeared in the heavy weight contest against R. N*. Lewie, a much heavier man. This was Forman's first appearance in the local ring. A LOST SCHOONER . Invercargill, This Day. All hope for the safety of the "British four-masted schooner Rimac, 600 tons, four months overdue at the Bluff from Surprise Island, has 'been abandoned. She was commanded by Captain Thornassen and was due at the Bluff with guano for ttie National Mortgage Company. She was loading when the Nurnburg raided Fanning Island was probably sunk.