TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fnv TKi.r.oi:ten—run press association] PE R() I,E U M PRC )SB ECTIN G. ASHBURTON, Sept. 20. After seven years boring at Cherstey having reached a depth of 2,200 ft, ail extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Canterbury petroleum prospecting company to-dav decided to go into voluntary liquidation, because quicksand has prevented further borefug. The financial resources are exhausted. including n recent Government subsidy of £IOOO. The sale sif the plant may recoup the debenture holders, hut the general shareholdops are unlikely to see any return. The individual losses, however, will be small, because out of ,50 shareholders, 00() holdings arc only of £lO or under. Only 7" are interested to the extent of £SO or more. The .company claims it. lias demonstrated the existence of gas and oil under tlio Canterbury Plains. 1 DOMINION FINANCES. TTMARU, Sept. 20. At tt well-attended quarterly meeting of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce to-night, Mr J. Anstcy read a paper oil Dominion Finance, pointing out that tin- tax on companies is a tax on capital anil destructive to co-operation of capital in production, He also condemned the system of taxation which permits large individual incomes from dividends, mortgages, and tax-free loans, etc, io escape. He insisted that the tax on companies will produce little or inothing this year, and other sources must lie found. IT,, condemned the large increases in departmental expenditures and also the waste of time by the people in sports and amusements, that should be devoted to production. After a good discussion, a motion by Mr E. G. I{a wtis ley (manager of Dnlgety’s) and Mr J. P. Newman ’manager of tile Farmers’ Co-op.) was carlied unanimously, calling upon the Government to carry out the repeated request of the Associated Chambers of for the formation of a board of experts to confer with the Commissioner of Tuxes, with the object ol exploring nil the various avenues of taxation, and to bring about a mere c.|uilablo adjustment of taxation. The Chamber declined to endorse the t(’solution of the Wellington Chamber deprecating the interference by politicians and others with the Railway Department in efforts to curtail expenditure. considering it was ’•alciii.Ued to invi’he a slur on the Department,. \PPFAE court. WEI.I.ING TON. Sept. 21. The Uonrt of Appeal ibis morning considered the appeal by Amliyu*Mamcs Mason against th" judgment of Mr Justice Herdmau dismissing the petition by applicant tor a divorce on toe ground that prlilioner’s own mis.ei.ndnel produced the rumhliun ol aliens lending to till’ wile's application for separation, three years previously, whereon the petitioner ] lace,! his divorce application Appellant's counsel contended the Appeal Court could teview the Jude's discretion Tlwic had been a minimum of guilt on the part of the husband, and if the Court could not make a decree in his case there would be no case in which the Court c’mhl grant a divorce. C-n’ii si* I for rosnondent said the granting of such n divorce would insult in a serious private wrong. A divorce entailed the stigma oil the woman and the children. In this ease the Judge found the husband bad been guilty of desertion, and a person eintlil nut plead bis own wrung as a ground for claiming these rights in a Couit id Jws-

Decision was reserved. STOHKKKEI’EH El U El) ON. W.UHOA. Sept. 21. On receipt, ol information last evening that a storekeeper at Opoalama, named George s;iss.m>. had been shot (without fatal results) Sergt Wade proceeded to the scent, and found Sisson had been shut in tile back and one band. Marks of eighty eight pellets number four slmt. showing that Sissons had come out and was dosing Che door when shot. He did not senilis assailant. The police are reticent, ami certain aspects are being investigated. El HE VERDICT. AI'CE LAND .Sept. 21 At tbe conclusion of the iiupiirv into the lire on the premises ul the Auckland Furnishing Guy. at Honsonb.v, on August 15th, Mr Boynton. S.M.. tunnel that the premises were willully set cm lire, and that three tins of benzine were placed tlierl- for tin- purpose id' ensuring lia- destruction cd tbe ujiioe and books, there not being, sulliciiml evidence to show who slartc-cl llu* till-. The partners in the Auckland Furnishing Coy. are thns* returned soldiers: Walter C'oomhes, Vineeiil C. Dwyer and Claude Stapleton. •leollrey Neville-, branch manager id the Bril’isl» Trade Insurance Coy., in ovulwir*' 1 1 1 ; 11. tlu* stncl; niul plant were over insured by 12(10 at the time ol the lire. (!. I). Decry, represen I ing the Repatriation Hoard, slated in January J l "' the oilier advanced each ol the three partners (2100. * The Depart mem l"' 1 a bill of sale ovci the assets, but m tbe lire insurance policy the- Department was not named as mortgagee. Coombc-s bought out one cd tue original partners, Robert Dalv.ell. lot L2II, in February lasi. DIVORCE COl'llT. WELI.INGTDN, Kept. l'L In the divorce court the hearing was ii sumed cd' the petition cd' William liuothbv, 1.0 w.-r lliilt, for a diss-ilu-tion of his marriage with Ann.io lloothby, on tbe ground of misconduct with Phillip Neil Cameron, married. :v .He'd ing farmer. Tbe jury found for the petitioner, and awarded him £7no damages—the full amount claimed against the cn-respimdent. , WELLINGTON, Sept 18. ' 'l'll,. Government Meteorologist slated to-day that 112 points of tain ‘cH in Wellington from Friday night to ,) o’ clock on Saturday morning, and ' :;;8 from then till !) o’clock this im.nii,,,,. a 0 total of IDO points, or nearly 1 live inches. Considerable rain also fell all about Cook Strait, and on the East ‘ Coast of the South Island.