N.Z. TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9051, 28 March 1908, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION . THE AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET. AUCKLAND, March 27. The Premier states that no reply has yet been received to the invitation extended to the Pacific fleet, under Admiral Evans, to visit New Zealand. TROUBLE OVER MEDALS. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 27. The Wanganui Garrison Band is threatening legal proceedings to recover medals which were awarded to Auckland First Battalion Band on the protest in connection with the recent Band Contest. The Wanganui representatives were placed first by the judge, but were disqualified by the Association on the ground that they played the same piece as they did at Christchurch, where they also won. The medals were then forwarded to Auckland, who came second. It is a rule of the North Island Brass Bands' Association that three years must elapse before the same pieci can again be rendered by a winning band. AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. AUCKLAND, March-27. Mr Arthur Myers has acceded to a general wish of the Auckland City Council, and agreed to nomination for a fourth term of office as Mayor. FLAXMILLS CLOSED DOWN. AUCKLAND, March 27. It is estimated that one hundred flaxmills have been closed in the Auckland province, but the outlook i is now pronounced to be a little more hopeful. DANGEROUS DEED BY A YOUTH. INVEKCARGILL, March 27. Adam Middlemiss, aged fifteen, was charged with placing ah obstruction on the Kingston railway. Fortunately the train was going up hill at the time and the driver was able to pull up, but not before the engine had passed over one piece of iron. The magistrate said it was no use sending the boy to gaol, and he was too old for an industrial school. He therefore ordered him to receive twelve strokes of the birch rod. AN UNREGISTERED DAIRY. STRATFORD, March 27. John Gilbert was fined £1 and costs for selling milk to a Stratford resident, whhh was not obtained from a registered dairy. For failing to register a dairy from which milk was sold, the same defendant was fined £5 and costs. GROWTH OF FEED. HASTINGS, March 27. The growth of feed subsequent to the recent rain, has had the effect of easing off work at the freezing works, as sheep are not rushed in now. In some works as many as thirty hands are being dispensed with. ORCHARD AND GARDEN PESTS. MEETING OF FRUIT-GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. HASTINGS, March 27. A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association was called to discuss, paragraphs recently appearing in the. papers which l.riefiy summarised, state:—"l. The codlin moth cannot be controlled with profit to the grower by methods advised by the Agricultural Department. 2. That the Orchard and Garden Pests Act has caused every one to suffer, since fruit is so enormously dear that the department itself has failed to keep its orchards, clean of codlin moth, ancf until a remedy is discovered, legislation would be worse than useless." The Growers' Association is satisfied with the present Act, and a meeting will consider what seeps are advisable to combat any organised effort made to relax the present methods of enforcing its provisions. DEATH FROM LOCKJAW. , AUCKLAND, March 27. Irene Graydon, two and-a-half years, daughter of an Onehunga resident, died from tetanus in the Auckland Hospital last night. She was walking barefooted, when she picked up a splinter, which was apparently only partially removed; A SEDDON MEMORIAL. WESTPORT, March 27. A contract was settled yesterday with Parkinson and Co., Auckland, to erect a statue of the late Mr Seddon in* one of the principal thoroughfares of Hokitika, as a memorial for Westland, which the late Premier so long represented in Parliament. The statue is to be a little larger than life size, in marble, on a polished granite pedestal, with white granite steps on a concrete foundation.