Telegraphic.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7887, 1 August 1905, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(Per Press Association.) /NELSON. JULY 31. At a meeting of Civil Servants a motion was carried affirming that all branches of the Civil Service shuulU be granted superannuation. WESTPORT, July 31. A meeting civil servants held tonight passed p resolution'in iiivour of I of superannuation. TIMARU, July 31. A waggoner named W. J. Shaw was drowned in the Hinds stream on Snturday, through his trap capsizing in consequence ot his missing the for*.l- | CHRISTCHURCH, July 31. At the conclusion ol tire addresses by Messrs Taylor, Laurenson and Fisher, to-night, a committee was formed to assist the new Liberal par- ] ty between this and the date of the elections, WELLINGTON, July 31. The dead tfxly found in the bush at Upper Hutt has been identified as tint of Anthony John Barnard, aged 39, who disappeared from his home at Pahiatua on March 16 t CHKISTCHURCH, July 31. The jury threw out the bill against R. A. Bradbury of having procured others to commit arson. WELLINGTON, July 31. The young woman, Matilda McLellan, who pleaded guilty to a charge of cattle-stealing near Woodvillc,was admitted to probation. Henry Batly received three months for breaking and entering. MASTERTON, July 31. George Yates, a cook, single, and sixty years of age, with no relatives in the colony, was tound dead in a swamp in Grcytown on Sunday. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died on Friday evening from exposure.