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[by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS. ASSOCIATION.] ROWING. DUNEDIN, Aug. 23. In response to an invitation from Melbourne rowing authorities for a Now Zealand four to visit Australia for the Henlev-on-YaroJfa Regatta on October 20 and Other regattas, the Otago Club four, which hold the Now Zealand Championship, has been selected. FALL OVER CLIFF. AUCKLAND, Aug. 23. A fall of 32ft over .a- cliff at Point Chevalier on to the beach resulted in Miss Hilda Murley, aged eighteen, receiving injuries to her bade and hip which necessitated her removal to the Auckland Hospital. At about 10.45 o’clock on Saturday evening, a man who lives on the foreshore heard ci ies from the beach, and on going out found the girl lying on the sand unable to move. She was taken to his house, and thence to the hospital. Miss Murley said that she was walking through the reserve, and must have been nearer the edge of the cliff than she thought. DAIRY COY. ELECTION. HAMILTON, Aug. 24 - The election of directors for four wards of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Coy., resulted in the 'following being re- , turned: Messrs J. B. McKinney (Northern District), W. H. Allen (South Eastern), T., O. Blackett unopposed (South Western), and G. Buchanan. unopposed (Thames Valley). diedonlhs feet. _ HAMILTON, Aug. 24 Andrew Mitchell Alexander, aged 28 years, was noticed standing in an unnatural attitude on the kerb in Victoria Street this afternoon. A doctor was summoned, and found bim dead. CROSSING COLLISION. WANGANUI, Aug. 24. _ A heavy motor truck, carrying furniture from New Plymouth, ran into a mixed train at Guyton Street crossing to-night. The driver, J. Cooper, escaped without a scratch, but the lorry was wrecked. The driver stated that he did not see the train. A long line of trucks was ahead pf the carriage he bit, and as tlie trucks were unligbted, he drove on to. the crossing with no thought of danger. BANKRUPT LAW REFORM. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 24. The N.Z. Society of Accountants at its annual conference to-day, adopted a Taranaki remit requesting'the Minister of Justice to meet* the demand of the fcommercial community for the revision of the bankruptcy legislation. UNEMPLOYMENT. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 24. The unemployment figures have been steadily decreasing bere for the past nine weeks, and a further decrease is noted in the figures for tlie past week. On June 21st there were 127 registered at the Government bureau. These have now dropped to 39 registrations. There is a general easing of the posi- , tion. There are now only six female applicants as compared with 14 for the previous week. Flaxmills will ho commencing the season’s operations at the end of the present month, or the beginning of tlie next. This will further help to absorb labour. COMPETITIONS. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 24. . The Invercargill Competitions were continued this afternoon and evening before a large audience. Results: Piano Championship (open)—Miss E. Cleiland (Otaura) 1, Mrs G. Hamilton; (Invercargill) 2. Recitative and Aria from Oratoria— Miss A. Lilburn 1, Miss V. Macfarlane 2. Miss P. Cnnliffe 3. Baritone Solo—F. H. Johnston 1, Mr P. Barlow 2. MISSING FUNDS. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 24. John Francis Walsli, ex-town clerk to the Mataurn- Borough Council, appeared at the Supreme Court to-day on five counts of theft of moneys totalling. £224 7s 2d from the Borough funds. In his evidence the accused denied having taken the money, hut said lie could not account for its being missing. Owing to the system employed in the office and the fact that tlie cash had not been balanced for a long period it wn§ possible for the money to have been overlooked. It might yet come to light. The case is proceeding. THEFT OF MONEY. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 24. •Claude Thompson, aged twenty-three, and a member of tlie Christchurch Theoso.phical Society, appeared in tlie Magistrate’s Court to-day, charged with' having stolen from a letter the sum of £3, the property of the Society. Accused pleaded guilty. He was admitted to probation for two years, and ordered to repay the money. ■ CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. GISBORNE, Aug. 24. An elder sister of an eighteen months old hoy, Edward Kerman Fishback, took a hilly of boiling water to the bathroom and told the infant not to touch it. The child, however, grabbed the hilly, and the boiling water went over him. The mother applied olive oil and lime water, but as the wound did not improve; she took the child-to the doctor. who found that the child’s general condition was toxaemie at the time. Later the child was removed to Cook Hospital where it died. At the inquest to-day, medical evidence was given to the effect that, when admited to the hospital, the wound was septic. and death was due to toxaemia, following burns, and a verdict was returned accordingly. A KLEPTOMANIAC. AUCKLAND. Aug. 24. A woman whose name was ordered to be suppressed appeared at the Police Court and pleaded guilty to the theft of an overcoat valued at £l2 19s 3d, and to five other charges, involving theft from city shops. The ©censed resided at Remuera, and after she had been caught shop-liffing in Queen St., her house was searched, with the result that the police found a quantity of new goods. The accused could not explain where these came from, and she later admitted the whole of the charges. Chief Detective Cummings said the accused came from a most respectable family. Her husband was in a prominent position in the city. The accused lived with her family, in a house worth between two and three thousand pounds. It was lavishly furnished. Her two daughters had recently embarked on professional careers, one in teaching elocution, and the other singing. Apart from her husband’s income the accused and her husband

were interested in property, and derived an income therefrom. Counsel for the accused pleaded kleptomana, ancl worry, duo to the serious illness of the accused’s husband. Mr Poynton, S.M., declned to consider the request "for probatioii, and also the appeal for a line. He sentenced the accused to fourteen days’ imprisonment on one charge. He convicted her on the others, and admitted her to probation for three •years and 'ordered her to make restitution <>f £l2 19s 6d. k Replying to the request for suppression of her name, the Magistrate said that the names of offenders-guilty of systematic shop-lifting were never suppressed. However, owing to the positions held by the accused’s two daughters, he made an order for the suppression. v CALL FOR. INDUSTRIAL TRUCE. CHRISTCHURCH, August 25. A five years’ industrial truce between employers and workers was strongly advocated by Hon T. S. AVeston (President of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation) when speaking at the annual meeting of Canterbury Employers’ Association last night. Mr Weston said that if such a truce could he arranged for the next five years the gains to both, employers and workers would he very considerable. Those who had seen with their own eyes the losses due to strikes and increased cost due to amount of uncertainty that existed, would realise the extreme importance of endeavouring to secure a guarantee of industrial peace. Moreover, the workers were going to gain very substantially by it as falling prices were bound to benefit them. NO SIGN OF BODIES. CHRISTCHURCH, August 25. Three parties searched the upper reaches of the AYaimnkariri yesterday for the two missingm'en. Gerald Nelson Carrington and John Stevenson Shannon. who with AA’aiter AA'illiam Ilrassington were thrown into the river noai Staircase when their raft capsized on Sunday. Search parties had nothing to report upon relinquishing their quest at nightfall. The river was running about a foot higher than its usual lend and was slightly discoloured. AA’alter AA’illiam Brassington, who had a marvellous escape from drowning. in the AA’aimnkariri River on Sunday, endured great hardship in bringing news of the mishap to Staircase. “ T managed to get on tlie raft twice, while it was being whirled and crashed into the rock,” he said. “ Twice I tried to climb on to the bluff but each time was pulled down by the force of the current and by my own weight. In the next hundred yards, I came to the surface once or twice, and then T was hurled into another bluff of rock. I was pulled down again, and for a second time felt a drowning sensation. A little later T saw the water lighten, and I managed to get my head to the surface. I felt my feet touch bottom, hut I was too weak to stand, and finally I was washed ashore on the shingle. I looked about, but- I saw no sign of Carrington or Shannon. ’’ Search parties are now out.