MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 27 January 1909, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

[Pbess Association.— Coptbight.] LONDON, Tuesday. ' The Northern shipowners, at a meeting at Newcastle, adopted tho principle of the international union scheme for submission to the approaching Baltic Conference nt Copenhagen. Messages of support were received from all parts • of the United Kingdom, and from abroad, representing a capital of ntty million sterling. The scheme is received . with enthusiasm in Japan. ! PARIS, Tuesday. The International Conterence on Cold Storage at Paris adopted a project for an International Association. It- ".as stated that tho Germans and Austmns alone are reserving definite decisis? ; AUCKLAND, T'.ie»lty. ; The Harbour Board, at its meeting to- ; day, decided by. seven votes to three, not to accept the lowest tender, for 12 large cranes, which was that of a German firm. The second tender, that of an English firm, was accepted. With the addition of 10 per cent preferential duty to the amount of the German tender it was £293 lower than that of the English fi ' m ' CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. * Mr Emil C. Skog, who in 1884 was appointed Vice-Consul for Denmark and nine years later Consul for Denmark fov , the South Island, died to-day. He ar- . rived in Napier in 1875, where he re- , mained till 1881, when he came to , Christchurch, where he was assistant ( manager for Cook and Ross s chemist . busings till 1893. He then became manaeer. He had acted as examiner for the J Pharmacy Board, and was a prominent Mason. He was born at Copenhagen in 1848, and held a commission as Lieutenant in the Danish Army. FEILDINO, Tuesday. The Feilding Agricultural and Pastoral Association's school garden competition, with Taonui (which won last ' vear) seoond. The prizes will be presented by Mr Guthrie, M.P., on Wednesday next at the Show. ' • IKVERCARCILL, Tuesday. A voung man named Charles Goodwill pleaded guilty to time charges ot breaking and entering into a hous? at , Rivertou, aud frightening women and < children. iim.UMWAAT.. VIC. Mr Vy. 11. n-illiiri'l, "Tho Dredge." nuhimwiial, Vic, writes :— "I , havu used I)r Sheldon's Muriatic Liniment, for rhfciiiinili.- jiaiii-s '» 'I" 1 "''"'. anJ " ; always ri-iinivi-;! (| IL . pai.-i u. a couple ot ; upiili<-ntiiiits. , _ I Dr Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment relieves nt once Rheumatism. Lumbago, ■ Lama Bark, Cuts Bruises, and Burns, and repeated npplii-ilinns will effect a cure in a remarkably short time. Price ls 5d and 3s per bottle. Obtainable ' everywhere.* !