GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 365, 16 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' CONFERENCE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, April 14, The executive of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Association has just concluded a two days' conference. No information is available as' to what transpired, but it is understood that only matters with regard to the trade and industry were discussed. The visit ing delegates have been entertained by the local association during their stay in Auckland. VICTORIA'S WHEAT CROP. Wellington, Yesterday. The Minister of Industries and Commerce has received information that the complete actual returns of the Victorian wheat harvest for 1909-1910 shows the area cut for grain 2,097,102 acres; the yield 28,780,100 bushels; average per acre 18.72 bushels. The figures for the previous season were 1,779,905 acres; yield 23,345,049 bushels, average 1.3.12 bushels. Ninetyeight and a half per cent, of bags used were of local new standard size, containing an average of 3.09 bushels. The old standard was 4.4.

MAN BECOMES INS AXE. Auckland, Yesterday. The Star's Nguuguru correspondent wires that early this morning a- man named Henry James Hansen, who had apparently lost his reason, armed with a shot gun and ammunition, broke into a room occupied by his three, sons, and opened fire upon them. He fired three shots. Arthur received slight injuries on the thigh, another son lied through the window, and the other escaped by the door unnijured. One of the injured boys was removed to Whangarei Hospital. Hansen, sen., is a storekeeper, aged fifty-one, and owns valuable property in the district. LASCAR SEAMEN. Auckland, Yesterday. The Sailors' Union is wiring to the Premier and to Mr. Fisher, prospective Federal Premier, asking them, to legislate against the employment of cheap colored labor on steamers trading i>eIwppii. Australia and New Zealand. This is directed against the P. and 0. Company, which, it is stated, pays Las-ars' 25s a month against C 7 to seamen and CO to stokers .paid by the Union and .Huddart Parker companies, with whtch the P. and 0. 'Company indirectly competes. The Morca. which left here for Sydney on Wednesday, carried 200 passengers who wonld have otherwise travelled by the ordinary intercolonial steamers. If it is' impossible to -secure increased wages legislation will 'be, asked for to differentiate in the matter of light and port dues in favor of companies paying Dominion wages.