TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[i'BK PKESS ASSOCIATION.]

COtoT OF FOODSTUFFS.

Dunedin, This Day

The Tramway Union passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the Government is showing lamentable weakness in permitting Hie public to be exploited in regard to the high prices of foodstuffs, and especially in allowing the "Millers' Association to charge £17 ltte per ton tor flour milled from State wheat, which was sold to inillers to enable them to sell flour at £14 10s.

ODDFELLOWS IN SESSION

Auckland, This Day

At the annual session or the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand, the report stated that there were now 68 Grand Lodges and 18,153 subordinate lodges with a total membership qf 2,167,055. The invested fund totalled £13,784.015. In 1913 £1,243,753 was distributed in relief. Two hundred members had joined the expeditionary force and consideration would: be given in the matter of assisting brethren on active service | to retain their membership. It was announced that the Grand Lodge of Australasia would hold its next meeting in New Zealand. HEAVY FINES FOR GAMBLING. Napier. Thi6 Day. The foui- men, Lynch, Short. Fuller and Burke who were acquitted at the late session of the Supreme Court on a charge of conspiring to defraud a Maori by card-playing on a train, were Ifljind guilty by the Magistrate on a charge of gambling on the railways. Fuller and Short were each fined C.iO or three months' imprisonment, and Burke and Lynch £30 or two months'. The police objected to time being allowed to pay the fines. Mr Dolan (for the prisoners): It is no wonder juries let people off when things like this happen. His Worship: It is not a cape Fur time. They are not honest men. DRY CANTEENS. Auckland. This Day. Replying to a W.C.T.U. deputation, the Hon. James Allen said he had already given an assurance that no wet

j canteens would be established at Trentj ham. The Legislature would not allow it, although he were prepared to do so. There were possibilities of getting round the law, but he knew the effect of liquor in camps, and did not intend to alter existing arrangements. SINCE THE DRSEDEN' WENT. The Chief of General Staff announces that all restrictions are now removed 011 the publication of ordinary shipping news. FOR INDIGENT BELGIUM. Palmerston North, This Day. P. A. McHardy, a well-known Manawatu farmer, has donated £1000 to the Belgian Relief Fund. In a letter to the Manawatu Standard, covering the cheque, Mr McHardy says that as a producer and one who is deriving an increased revenue from the efforts of those who are dying fighting or enduring hardships and torture and having thier country laid waste and homos destroyed, it is his duty to return something to "those who are so .nobly defending our existence, who suffer or are wounded or maimed, destitute or in need of immediate care and attention and assistance to meet the increasesd price of produce.