INLAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 172, 25 March 1915, Page 3

INLAND NEWS.

THE LATE BISHOP GRIMES. REMAINS REACH CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.} CHRISTCHURCH Last night. A very large crowd gathered at the station this morning when the remains of the late Bishop Grim,e s arrived from Sydney. The cortege left at 8 o’clock tor thg Cathedral, where Archbishop O’Shea, Wellington, Bishop Vcfrdon, Dunedin and Bishop Cleary, Auckland, were in waiting. The funeral casket was placed in the central aisle and a short service was conducted by Dean Hills. The Cathedral bell tolled at intervals during the whole ceremony. The highly impressive lid of the casket was then removed and the congregation filed slowly past the coffin. The last funeral rites will be solemnised to-morrow. HOTEL BURNING CASE. NOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE, OAMARU, This Day. Mir Martholomew, S.M., delivered judgment thi s . morning on the result of enquiry into the fire in the Star and Garter Hotel. After 'a lengthy review cf evidence he said he was unable to make any express finding. The formal verdict was that the Star and Garter Hotel was partly destroyed by fifre on the 14th February. Then is not sufficient evidenc to show how the fire was caused. TWO GERMANS ESCAPE. SWIM ONE AND A HALF MILES. LAND AT PETONE. WELLINGTON This Day. Two young Germans, Edwin Balk» and Paul Woolf, interned cn Somes Island, escaped yesterday morning by swimming over I?- miles to Petone, where they surrendered to the police. They stated that the object of their scapade was to draw attention to the treatment of Germans on the island. They had been employed at road work, which they declajre.fi was only fit for convicts and not for prisoners of war. They appeared little the worse for their swim in a bleak southerly. One lest his bundle of clothe s which he had strapped to his back; he used some of his companion’s clothes on landing. BOARD OF TRADE. DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. WELLINGTON, This -Day. The appointment of a Board of Trade for the Dominion was urged on Mr Massey by a deputation Ijrom the New Zealand Industrial Corporation. Mr Bennett, Canterbury, said the idea was that the Board should be both investigatory and advisory, and should work in four centres simultaneously. They also asked that the Government should pay a subsidy towards the cost of wcjrk The Government spent £200,000 a year on the Department of Agriculture, while the subsidy they asked for would only he a fortieth part of that. They also asked that they should have power to call evidence. Mr Massey said he had had the matter under consideration for some time. He expressed himself in favour of it, both in the House and on the platform. He had no doubt he would be able to work out something that would go in the direction the deputation was proposing. Proposals would be submitted to Parliament next session. MILK CONTRACT QUARREL. SUPPLIERS BREAK AWAY. WELLINGTON, March 23. Wellington city retail milk vendors are up in arms against a proposal of the Farmers’ Association to increase the price of milk to retailers. The Farmers’ Association' comprises between 200 and 300 members, supplying nearly 3,000 gallons daily to the city. The Association fixes the price of milk twelve months ahead, and in October last a circular was issued fixing the following prices: October Ist to July 28th, 6M per gallon; March Ist to April 30th, 8d; May Ist to August 31st, lOd. In addition, the purchaser has to pay freight of over a penny per gallon. The farmers now ask lOd per gallon for April, and in a recent circular members of the Association are advised to make no arangerments for the future, as a further rise is anticipated. The Retailors' Association objects ▼;> paying the increased price, and lias informed the Farmers’ Association fliat it intends to keep to the terms of the arrangement already made with suppliers to pay 8d per gallon and no more. There is, therefore, the prospect or a struggle between the producers and the retailers, with results inconvenient for the general public. The present- retail price in the city is 4d per quart, or 1/4 per gallon, reduced to 1/- in Die case of large quantities.