GENERAL TELEARAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 10 December 1906, Page 2

GENERAL TELEARAMS

Per Press Association. EGG LAYING COMPETITION. Blenheim:, December 8. During the 3Utli week of the egg laying competition, 2320 eggs were laid, making the grand total 63,472. The highest pens for the week were Vera Lissinghton 34, Thomson 33, Ureber 33, Yoioo 3b (all White Leghorns). The leading pens to date are Brookes 802, A. & P. Association 837, J. Hodson 907, Marlborough Hotel 786, Brow Poultry farm 78i, Vera Lissington 773 (all White Leghorns.) UNDESIRABLES. I Gisbokne, December 9, A band of Gipsies have been roving about the district lately. Owing to sensational reports yesterday afternoon, all the available police were despatched to the camp at Makaraka, where it was found that a man had been beating his wife. The wife-beater was arrested SIR JOHN GORST'S TOUR. Auckland, December 7. Sir John. Gorst was officially welcomed by the Mayor. The Minister of Education was present. Sir John Gorst was presented with a volume of the paper published" by him- in the early days. Replying, Sir John Gorst regretted that circumstances would not permit him to spend his remaining days in the. colony. He expressed wonder at the marvellous progress of the colony for the last forty years. He complimented the colony on solving the problem of having a semi-civilised race like the Maori living on equal terms with Europeans, and that the old distrust had been removed from the Maori mind. SCARCITY OF FARM LABOUR. Palmerston N., December 8. At a meeting of the Farmers' Union today the following resolution .was passed:— "That the executive of the Union be requested to draw the Premier's attention to the fact that the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council recently sent a circular letter to many of the leading newspapers of Great Britain and Ireland giving misleading information as to prospects of employment of uuuiigraats to the colony, both male and female, and that the Premier be requested officially to contradict the statements contained in tho letter by putting the position of labour in this colony fairly and impartially before- labourers in the Old Country." The meeting also decided to ask the provincial! executive to take some decisive action as a protest against the present method of dealing with condemned dairy stock, especially pointing out that inadequate compensation is paid. CHINESE COMMISSIONER. Wellington December !>. The Chinese Commissioner, Hwang Hou Cheng, and his private secretary, arrived in Wellington from the South to-day. SALVAGE COMENSATION CLAIM. Wellington, December 0. Yesterday the Chief Justice had before him the case of the Aorere Steamship Company against the owners of the barque Lutterworth, which was salved by the steamer Aorere some months ago when in a perilous plight niembcred that the ballast of the Lutterworth shifted, and disabled the vesnear Cape Terawhiti. It will be read. The crew was rescued by one of the Union Company's vessels, and the barque, dismasted and on her beam ends, was eventually picked up by the Aorere and towed into port by the Aorere and the tug Duco. In consequence of this, plaintiffs claimed £OOO. Mr D. M. Fimllay appeared for tho plaintiffs, and Mr Grey for defendants. Evidence' was given as to the original value of the vessel and the present value of the hull, gear, equipment and stores, The case will be Continued tdirrqrrow, , ~,„• ■