GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' CONFERENCE. - . Dunedin, December 14. The Otago Daily Time's learns from an oflicial source that it is iutonded- 1 to bold a conference of licensed victuallers at an early date during the ■% coming year, with the object of con-?* sidering the question of licensees who conduct their business improperly. It is proposed to initiate legislation which will deal with such offenders, and also to adopt measures to put the trade in every part of the colony on a footing that will be satisfactory to the great body of electors. SALE OF PEDIGREE STOCK. Dannovirke, December 14. - The sale is reported to 0. F. Moore, Kai Iwi, near Wanganui, of the whole < f the female portion of the celebrated Toraiigitumau herd of pedigree Hereford cattle, so long and successfully owned by James Stuckey, of Opaki, Masterton, who has sold his property.

DEEP LEVEL PROSPECTING^*

BsiMTojf, December H. A Diamond Drilling Association has been formed here to prospect, with tho aid of the Government diamond drill and a subsidy. The meeting was a great suceess, a thousand shares being applied for. It is intended to prospect the lower deposits. A company has been formed with 130,000 shares at a shilling, . simply to prospect in the Inangiihua country,