GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 15 February 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. FillE GOT UNDER. Wellington, February 14. liie lire which has been smouldering amongst the coal on the bunkers of the steamer Amelie since Tuesday morning, was got under this alternoon, practically the whole of the coal having to be discharged to get at tic seat oi the fire. Very little damage lia'd been done. The flooring on the starboar,l side of tin; vessel had been eaten away by file lire, and a water pipe cracked by the heat.

TIIE NATIVE LIQUOR LAWS. Wairoa, February 14. A. Grcenride, licensee of the Moliaka Tlotcl, ivas fined £lO and costs for supplying a Maori woman with intoxicating 1 it] nor. d. A. Cooper, licensee »f the Hot Springs Hotel at Morere, charged with supplying a cask of a beer to a native, was acquitted on the grounds that it had been supplied to a half-casto. EXCESSIVE MOTOR SPEED. Wairoa, February 14. Win. Kichmond was fined 20/ for driving a motor car at an excessive rate of speed through the Wairoa streets. STEWART ISLAND.

lnvercargill, February 14. Or. L. Coekayni*, of Ohristchurch, who is engaged writing a book on tho liiology of New Zealand, ha.s just returned from live weeks' stay on Stewart Island, lie told a'Southland finies" reporter that lie had discover, i'd 81) unrecorded specieß xjf plants, bringing the total species for the Island to 4fio. Dr. Cockayne consulered the Island has a great future as a tourist resort, and that steps should be taken as soon an possible for the preservation of the magnilieent forests oh the shores iif Ports Pegasus and William, nml Patorson'a Inlet. shops' cTosing noi'U. JiiYfreai-gili, February 14. Local drapers, clothiers, and mercers pel itioned the liorough Council to-nifilit to extend the clo,iiifr ], 0 ,„. (0 I" p.m on Saturdays, threatening proceedings if the Council did not make the statutory declaration that the signatories to the petition were a majority ot the trade. The Cmnieii was unable to decide 011 the majority t|"i"wl ion mvin« to the ambiguity of 1 1"' .tc-cription „ft rade, and will for'.Viiicl the correspondence to Ihc AlinStcr of labour. With n statement of he facts, I.AXI) I'd]; SKTTLKMKXT,