GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 31 March 1915, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CONVALESCENT HOME FOR CIIILDREA.

Wellington, .Monday

The Hospital Board received it lot' fv from the board of governors of the T. ii. Mac.arthy Trust, stating that the hitter have decided to contribute up to DIiUOO, hy instalments of £-UKM yearly, for the purpose of acquiring a house and Kite ami establishing a convalescent home for children, equipped with beds for twenty inmates, to be called the "T. 0. Macartliy Convalescent Home for Children."

SAN FRANCISCO PKESS CONGRESS.

Christehureh, Monday.

Mr. P. Sclig, president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand, received by the American mail on Saturday an invitation to the Association to be represented at the Press Congress to be held at the Exposition in San Francisco on July 5, G, 7, 8, 1) and 10. In referring to the Congress the Director of the Congress, Dean Walter Williams, of the School Journalism, University of Missouri, outlines the programme and says that each Association under the plan of the organisation of the Congress is entitled to five delegates, exclusive of its president and secretary, who are delegates ex officio, and one additional delegate for each 50 members or fraction thereof. The letter proceeded: "I would be glad to have you appoint representative delegates from the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, or if time pemits and you deem, it best, present the matter to the Association at its first meeting. When delegates are elected please send me their names and addresses, ion will appreciate, I am sure, the desirability for early action. Such delegates will receive a cordial welcome from their colleagues of the Press of the United States, will be enrolled in the Congress membership, and will receive the special facilities extended by the Panama Pacific Exposition."

ALLEGED FORGERY AND UTTERING

Auckland, March 30. John P. Sheridan, a native interpreter, has been arrested on a charge of having forged the name of P. Earle to a cheque for £ls, drawn on the law trust account of the New Zealand Government, and having caused Harry Lloyd to cash it.

LACK OF FREEZING SPACE.

DOMINION PRODUCE "SHUT OUT."

Wellington, Tuesday. I Having received information to the effect that the Commonwealth Government had reserved all the refrigerated space available in trading to South African ports, and that on this account New Zealand butter for that market was being shut out, the Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce cabled to the New Zealand Government agent at Sydney on the 25th inst., asking him to ascertain the position and to make special inquiries as to how it would affect the April, May and June shipments. A reply has now been received from the agent in which he states that all the available space on the steamers due to leave via South African ports has been booked either for th c transport of troops or for the carriage of nwat. He also states that there is more meat offering than can be accommodated, and that it is probable that these conditions will obtain lor the i.ext few months.