DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

APPEAL COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 7Nine more cases were set down for the Appeal Court, the session of which began to-day. Li re Thompson, a Law Society matter, .Mr Kennedy asked that the hearing be adjourned till June, as Thompson wa3 in gaol. The application was granted, but Thompson will be suspended from practice till the hearing. WHEAT PURCHASE PRIDES. Wellington. April 7. An extraordinary Gazette has be«n issued amending the wheat trade regulations of 191 ft, clause sixteen whereof is revoked. The following clause is substituted: "Government brokers will buy good milling wheat on account of the Government at the following prices:— Good milling wheat grown in South Island and elsewhere than in the provincial districts of Nelson and Marlborough: (1) To be sold for delivery free on board at neaTest port, (a) January, February, March or April, 1919, 6/6 bushel, '(b) In May, 1919, 6/6Jd (c) fn June, K>l9, -6/7 (d) in July, I'fllfl, G/7Jd- (e) In or after August, 1910, 0/8. (2) To be sold for delivery otherwise than free on board at nearest port: (n) Price equivalent as regards seller to prices aforesaid: (b) good milling wheat grown in North Island or in the provincial districts of Nelson and Marlborough. (!) Sold for delivery free on rail at nearest railway station, same price as that fixed by subclause a. For good milling wheat grown in the South Island (elsewhere than at and Marlborough) and sold for delivery f o.b at nearest port, with an additional 4d per bushel. ('2) Sold for delivery otherwise than free on rail at nearest railway station, a price equivalent, as regards sellers, to the price aforesaid. RAISING THE WIND. Oamaru, Last Night. After a successful season of nine ni»hfs and a matinee drawing packed howes. "Our Reveille." a brilliant extraganza, organized by Mr William Lints, concluded on Saturday. The proceeds. which totalled nearly a thousand pounds, will be devoted to the Returned Soldiers' Association.

WELCOME RATN AT OAMAHU.

Oamaru, Last Night. After a long spell of hot days, which made the outlook for winter feed very black wjleoni'i rain began to fall this morning, and the steady fall continued. Thf rain will have very beneficial effeet' on tlie parclietl pas-tvive land fl-ivi help to restore the fast falling stock market. THE WASTE ON HARBOR WORKS, j Wellington, Last Night. Cabinet has decided that no ( more money is to be spent in the attempt to reconstruct harbor works at Wairoa. The Government had-not considered the question of making a grant for making works at Waikokopu, some miles from Wairoa. PUBLIC SERVICE APPEAL BOARD. Wellington, Last Night. Saturday was the closing date for the receipt of nominations in connection with election by the general public service of two members of the Public Service Board of Appeal. The only nominations received were those of Charles De Rant Andrews. of the Valuation Department, Dunedin, and Arthur Marryatt, of the Government Life Insurance Departi®Bnt, Wellington, and those officers were «e----<Btarsd elected