NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9001, 11 December 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

BY TEIjEGHAI'H—I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION. BODY FOUND IN A RIVER. PITNEDIN, December 10. The body of George McLay, dredgemaster, has been found in the Molynoaux river, near Clyde. MANAWATU RAILWAY. QUESTION OF ACQUISITION BY THE GOVERNMENT. WELLINGTON, December 10. The directors of the WellingtonManawatu Railway Company met this morning to consider the Government's notice of their intention to acquire the line. The meeting came to no decision, but the directors are prepared to assist the Government to come to a settlement in any way consistent with their duty to the shareholders. BURNED TO DEATH. CHRISTCIiURCH, December 10. Daniel Sharp, swagger, aged 66 years, was burned to death in a hut at Kirwee. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. INVERCARGILL, December 10. At the Supreme Court, to-day, the Grand Jury returned no bill in the case of against Alexander Ferrier, charged with manslaughter. The facts were that a horse took fright at Ferrier's traction engine and backed over an embankment, killing the rider, a young woman. SIR JOSEPH WARD INTERVIEWED. L PRESS CABLE RATES AND OTHER MATTERS. • DUNEDIN, December 10. Sir (I. Ward told an interviewer that he was urging the Pacific Board 'to reduce the charges on press wires to fourpence per wordi ■ The High Commissioner had suggested a wireless system between England, Canada and New Zealand, and the Government was quite willing to cooperate with the Federal Government in the matter. Representations made by him were now under the consideration of the Pacific Cable Board. The Government was prepared to make all arrangements for goods intended for the Franco-British Exhibition at Sheppard's Bush, England, to be forwarded at a minimum cost to exhibitors. The representation boundaries as fixed by the commission, added Sir Joseph Ward, would stand. Personally the Premier was favourable to the census only being taken every ten years, but this was a matter' for the consideration of Cabinet.