TELEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1124, 11 May 1911, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dargaville, May fl. U the Magistrate's Court, K. Donovan and T. Campbell, for being found on licensed premises on December 20, which was Christmas Day under (he. Public Holidays Act, were fined 10s. and costs each. Taihapc, May 10. A poll yesterday to increase tho loan for tho Town Hail buildings from .£4OOO to <£6000 was carried. There were only five dissentients. Gisborne, May 10. •\t the first statutory mooting of the newlv-clccted Harbour Board to-day, Mr. John" Townlev was re-elected chairman. The board "now consists of fifteen members. . , Christchurch, May 10. Thr body of a newly-born female child was -found" lied in a sack in the Avon iiivci, at Avonsidc, this afternoon. Timaru, May 0. The checked census returns for the three-mile radius of Timaru I'ost Office give- a total of 12,111. Invercargill, May 10. At the Police Court to-day ftobert Dunlop, a blacksmith, was fined .£lO for shooting ducks out of season, ai>d ,i similar penalty for resisting tho l anger. Six motor-drivers were charged with exceeding flic speed limit of eight milc.s an liour. Their counsel raised tho point that the by-law was not posted iu tho streets, and* the magistrate dismissed tho cases. __________