NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 175, 29 March 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

PRISON CAMP ESCAPEE. '" ARRESTED IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Henry Francis Smith was arrested last night, charged with escaping from the Waimarino prison camp on February 24th. H'e pleaded not guilty to-day and was remanded. AN ENGINEER TAKES POISON. AUCKLAND, This Day. ** John Wighton, second engineer on the steamer Victoria, on arrival from this South was suffering from the . effects of poison. He was removed to f the hospital and his condition i s improving. AN AUCKLAND ASSAULT. FOUR MEN ARRESTED. AUCKLAND, This Day. A Maltese, named Paul Fenwick, ■ployed on the Star of India, susained serious injuries in an assault in Customs Street on Saturday night. He was removed to the’ hospital. He had one rib broken, and his body and face severely bruised. The police later arrested four men belonging to the Star of India, ©barged with causing actual bodily harm. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE DEATHS. TWO MORE REPORTED, '' - ■'n- ? '*"* -T WELLINGTON, This Day. Two further deaths of members of the N!aw Zealand expeditionary forces ar reported by the Defence authorities. No. 10/10S4, Private Joseph Stanley Remnant, Wellington Infantry Battalon (Main body), died at Albany on he 19th inst. owing to complications tollowing on pneumonia. His next of ; kin is Mrs W. Remnant, : Te Matai, Palmerston North. No. 12/1072, Pri•ate Duncan Gordon Mac Kay (AuckI land Coy.), Third Reinforcements, died I at sea on 14th March with, heat apo- ; lexy. His father is Duncan Mac Kay, who resides at Waipu. CONTRABAND GOODS. A NEW LIST GAZETTED. WELLINGTON, This Day. A Gazette Extraordinary issued today amend s all previous lists of contraband of war. The following articles are now absolute contraband, in addition to the articles made absolute con- ' traband by proclamat ion issued on the 23rd December; Raw wool, wool tops and noils, woollen and worsted yarns, tin, chloride oh tin, tin ore, castor oil, paraffin, wax, copper iodide, lubricants, hides of cattle and horsles, skins cf calves, skins of sheep, goats and deer, leather undressed or dressed, suitable for saddlery harness, military boots or military clothing, ammonia and its salts whether simple or compound, ammonia liquor, urea and aniline and their compounds, tannirtjg substance of all kinds.

The now conditional contraband terms foodstuffs” and “feedingstuffs for animals” as used in the list of conditional contraband in the proclama* icn of 2oid December, shall bo deem* _od to include the following" articles: Oleaginous seeds, nuts and kernels; animal and' vegetable oils and fat* (ether than linseed oil) suitable for use in the manufacture of margarine, -■akes an d meals made from oleaginous seeds, nuts and kernels. OUR EXPORTS. PRIME MINISTER’S REMARKS. FREIGHT QUESTION DISCUSSED. » WELLINGTON, This Day. Exports for February were valued jat £3,968,228- as against £3,308,513 | for February last year. V” The Prime Minister, commenting c\ these lljgures said, approximately we shipped from New Zealand a. million carcases of mutton and lamb during the month of February. None of this meat was, however shipped to the order of the Imperial Government, for operations on their behalf did not commence till March 3. I think these figures constitute a record export for one month. The difficulties caused by a short supply of ships to carry our meat vas not now so acute as they were, but thieve are not yet ships enough, hrom June Ist indications are that there will be a sufficient number of ships available for our purposes, but foi May definite arrangements have not been ma'de by the shipping companies; those arrangements && beingmade in London by a comrnWtee of shipowners working with the Board of Trade and also with the committee of shipowners here. Th e Board of Trade, which is acting for the Imperial Government in the meat supply business, has C,greed to an increase in rates of freight on meat, which increase the Board of Trade will pay. This increase has been made as a result cf rc-r.v sentation made by me on behalf of the New Zealand Government with regard to the scarcity of insulatj&l ships for our trade. From Argentine freights for frozen nfeat wefie some 50 per cent, higher, and from Austin 11a about 25 per cent, higher than freights obtainable for New Zealand cargoes.