GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 27 August 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A SIKAXGE BUSINESS. By Telegrapfc/—Press Association. I Weltwgton, Last Night. The . lung man, Jota Robert Calderwnui. Vho disappeared suddenly from tit ho, *e on Sunday night, leaving letters behind him in which he intimated tilt he intended to commit suicide, has 1. i«l i ;n the Pahautanui district. Tli. Tolitt have been advised that he Ciii.ou at .1 house in Judgeford, near , ?ahautanui, and informed the occupants that 1k had been employed by Mr. Carroll, of Nwtown, and had wa'ked during the night from Wellington to Havward's, thence to Jijdgeford. He bad a cut on his arm, about 3% inches In lensrth. whicli hj" said was cawed by a scythe blade falling in his camp. Up jvas taken in, and the out was dressed. After he had been supplied with breakfast he 'proceeded on Mb my towards Paeknkariki.

KjiIAPOI WOOLLEN CO. Cnristehureh, Last Night. J At the a«w»l meeting of the Kaiapoi WflflUfn C'oirtpasy, held to-day, the diIWMf'' re P° rt reowwmended a dividend \ of -7 per cent. oil orltoary shares and 6V4 per cent, on preference shares, after iraking provision for depreciation ( r~)), repairs ( €2241), and reserve 1 i ■'»>!. After providing for the dWl* ill. <••«£, tlie profit and loss account - mI a balance of £B4l 7a Id, which directors recommended should be carried forward to tile flew account. The Report Wii i adopted.

r : .AFAXTECTN"G A RAILWAY. ? 1 Reefton, Thursday, A-poll »f the v-hole of the Inangahat. ir County Council gave an overwhelming majority empowering the county to introduce a B ! fl into Parliament provid--sng for the guarantee for interest on ■ tie post of with working •H- , expense?. in connection wit)) a extension ' of the railway from the pitjfipl /ailway station fata Reefton itself.