TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

IPKE PKKSS ASSOCIATION. I \\ L'liinytuu, lius .Day. Air V .Li. i'omton, chief, gaoie) at Lytteltoii, has retired, aud wil. be succeeded by Air J . U. Scanlon head gaoler at Wellington Chief Warder Crooke will act a> gaoler at Wellington temporarily Aapier, This Day. Tlie action for alloyed slandei in wliii'h two Wiiipawn doctors Deck and .Reid, figure as plain tit! and defendant respectively, is being heard at the Supreme Courl to-day. Dr Deck claims £T)01 damages for statements contained in letter written fry Dr Reed, in which the latter charged Dr Deck with a breach of professional etiquette in wittingly introducing one of "Reed's patients. The cruise of the action arose during the smallpox scare, when Dr Deck was visiting the patient in his capacity as public examiner. Aueklan'd, This Day. There was n heavy easterly gale and "rain las? night. The fall of 1.57 inches will relieve (he anxiety of the farmers throughout the district. fh*c milk supply and feed latterly having shown n serious shortage. Christehurch. This Day. Two writs have been issued by (he Customs against Barlow Bros., merchants, claiming duty alleged not fo have boon paid, owing to the action of an employee alleged lo have been concerned in the Customs frauds. The employee ia.s fled, but the Department holds .hat \he firm is liable for the i mount.

Napier, This Day. The Harbour Board lias decided to purchase a dredge for the purpose of constructing the embankment across the inner harbour, and expert to make a start with the work—which is to cany the East Coast railway line within three months. - "Wellington, This Day. Judgment was delivered by Ihe Chief Justice this morninp' hi the case in which Alexander Herbert Wilkie, a member of the Ohakune Borough Council, applied for a writ of injunction, restraining the Mayor and of her members of the Ohakune Council, from preventing plaintiff attending a meeting of the Council to-day, or any other meetings and exercising his lawful right as councillor. After holding fhat jhe Court had jurisdiction to interfere by injunction, if the circumstances <]f the "nsc warranted, Hi's Honour held that the action of the plaintiff brought him under the Council's by-law relating to disorder, and that the flavor and Council haw v ing found he was disorderlv, the Court could not interfere with their finding. Hr held, however, that neither the Mayor nor the Borough Council had power to expel or suspend a member, the only power to impose ;i penalty being under part ? of the Council's by-laws and 111 section - r 54!) of the Statute, which agreed. He also held that the resolution of suspon. sion was clearly illegal and <>'r;infed an injunction with costs ■£') r )s .