TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 227, 22 January 1897, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[By Telegraph] (P<7 - Press Association.) Wellington, This day. It is understood that the Licensing Committee Elections will take place on 24th or 25th March. The Government has decided to obtain an expert from Europe to manage the thermal springs of the Colony. The annual report of the Gas Company recommends a payment of a further dividend of spercent.,making 10 per cent, for the year. £2OOO is written off for depreciation. In reference to transfers from the Permanent Artillery to the Police Force, the commander of the forces. Colonial Pen ton, has reported that it is undesirable that any transfers should take, place, unless after three years from the date of enrolment, and that in future any men enrolled in the Permanent Artillery or Torpedo Corps, must remain there for three years before being transferred. This is not to apply to those who have been enrolled prior to the new regulations coming into force, but in respect to those at least one year's service in the Permanent Artillery or Torpedo Corps, will be required. Mr Martin, public trustee, has been appointed commissioner to investigate the old soldier's claims. The Government has decided that the Colony will be unrepresented at the Hamburg Horticultural (Exhibition. Mr I lay, engineer, of Dunedin, will be ollered the supervision of the drainage scheme at Rotorua. Fret? railway passes will bo granted to members attending the ("ire Brigade Conference, but no other assistance. The revenue for nine months of the year is 4'.5,2NH,H11, an increase of £203,595 in the corresponding period of the previous year. The Premier received a letter from the Melbourne Trade Council cot* gratuluting him on the success of the elections. There is beautiful weather for the Anniversary festivities, but rather breezy. PrNhbiN, This day. The case of (Vdeburt, a well known masseur v. Mr-. Murphy, an equally well-known hotel proprietress called on at the Magistrates Court thii morning, but tin- plaintiff failed to appear and the ra--e -truck out, tts»- coal-* l« ii!g given ;u;.iin-it htm. I fondant's counsel Itl wa-i a case of atuniptittg to I 1 U.KJ Atvkhm>, 'l'iii- da\. Arn 1 \1 iuitda, fnun Sydney, after a smart trip of :t day-: !*» h^urs. ( Hiiitu iii iu hj, Tin* day. A man humd Earnest Phillips was killed at C hi \ u>t U.-t evening through j & waggon lu w.i- driving falling <«vt»r a culling on the Port Hi«u Hurr nut road, lie was found underneath bii waggon with hi§ neck broken.