TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

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A RECORD AND ITS REWARD. DUNEDIN, This Day. William Stanley Miller who established the new Picton to Bluff motor record, was fined £2O 5s and costs at the Police Court ifor driving at a dangerous speed. According to a newspaper account produced by the Police Department, Miller was averaging forty miles an hour.

THE DECIDING OPINION. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 23. Justice Herdman allowed an appeal by the Rabbit Inspector against the Magistrate’s decision dismissing the case for failure of the former to take reasonable steps to destroy the rabbits on his land. His Honour held the Inspector’s opinion was decisive when the question for determination was whether the acts done by an "owner were such as were necessary for the destruction of rabbits.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 23 Magistrate McCarthy gave a reserved judgment in the rent fixing case, the Inspector of Factories versus Grant (landlord) and Langford (tenant). Tlie held that only a) stable basis of valuation should be taken into account in fixing capital value. The present Government valuation was £570, but the property would sell at £750 or £BOO. The latter value was dependent on various conditions arising out ofJJ.e war and partial suspension of the building trade. It would perpetuate evils which legislation was designed to prevent, if such value were taken to compute the standard of rent under tlie War Legislation Acts. The buildings was in a certain state of disrepair, and the Magistrate therefore fixed the present capital value at £545. The maximum rent chargeable is 8 per cent on the capital value. EMPIRE PRESS UNION. WELLINGTON, Feb. 23. At a large meeting of the local branch of the Empire Press Union, Sir G. Fenwick presiding, it was announced the Canadian press had sent an invitation to Now Zealand to appoint seven delegates to the Imperial Press Conference at Ottawa in August, whose travelling expenses would be defrayed. Twelve nominations were received. Sir G. Fenwick was re-elected Chairman and congratulated on his knighthood. The following were elected a committee: Messrs Horton, Coombe, Brett, McNieol, L. Blundell, Sclig, C. Earl, W. Weston, and Hon. G. Jones. The committee was requested to go over tlie rules with a view to olitaning more power for the overseas branches in the conduct of their affairs.

ACCIDENTS. , WANGANUI, Feb. 23. A. E. -Mosley, aged 28, a returned soldier, belonging to Hawcrn and recently appointed a shunter at Martou, was brought into Wanganui Hospital to-night with one leg fractured and the other badly lacerated as tlie result of a shunting accident. NELSON, Feb. 23. A train from Glenhope to-day collided with a hawker’s caravan on the combined railway bridge over the Votucka River at Tapawera. The driver of the caravan, named' Waterhouse, a returned soldier, jumped off, and saved himself by clinging to the side of if e bridge. One of the horses was killed and the other injured. The caravan vis wrecked, and was carried a consider,'!ole distance by the locomotive.

GIFT FOR BURSARIES. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 23 Professor J. MacMillan Brown has donated £IOOO to tlie Canterbury College Board of Governors for the esPiblishment of a bursary or bursaries, in connection with the Women Students’ Hostel. The gift is donated by Professor Brown as a memorial to his late wife, and will he known as the Helen AlacMillan Brown Bursaries.

AN APPOINTMENT. NELSON, Feb. 23. The trustees of the Cawthom Institute have appointed Miss Kathleen Curtis, of Auckland, as Mycologist. Had she not been engaged she would hae returned to England on the invitation of the Board of Agriculture to make researches into the potato disease.