GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 July 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, July 10. . \ At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Gus- ' : tav Creiiborg was committed for trial on '- a charge of perjury, at the hearing-of ' the recent cases arising out of a row at * a' two-up school.

The following figures show the quaji' • tities and values of produce exported from the colony during the month of ' June. Butter, 10,063 cwt, value £82,-' 450; cheese, 14,040 cwt., value £39,706; beef, 44,658 cwt, value £51,496; mutton, 167,845 carcases, value £104,684; lamb?, 380,81)5 carcases, value £212,845; oaw, 1335 bushels, value £183; hemp, 2760 tons, value £78,255.

An industrial agreement between Iho Wellington Slaughtermen's Union and ' local freezing companies has been filed. ": With the exception of rates of pay, it i is practically the same as the one the > r men were working under before the ' strike. The main points of the rates la provision for payment of 23s per hundred sheep, the wages to be paid weekly, „ but no man to be employed on a weekly :, wage. The agreement Is'to remain in v force for two years. jSJf At the Police Court to-dav, John * S Henry Whitton pleaded guilty to a a charge of theft of a ash service from "?, 0. J& Mills and others. Accused, who "'~f was head of the retail department of ' ,f Mills and Co., was committed to the supreme court roi ocutcncc. ---■ai Henry Norman Cossar pleaded guilty J§ to theft of a lady'B costume from Sat- -M good, Son, and Ewen, and was con- *S mitted for sentence. % \

Tho resolution re Civil Service super- 4; animation landed to the press was not ~Ji quite correct. The latter part should .'' read: "One-sixtieth of his annual rate \ of pay for every year of service com- * / puted on his maximum salary, and that \ the benefits for widows and children will "; be more liberal thnn those provided for in the Bill of last year."

Duuedin, July 10. guj The Presbyterian Orphanage and ilien's Home, to accommodate about 40 "'■* children, was opened to-day hv ltov. Mr " ? ifncl.ciiii.in (A'fbderator of the Pushy- ••'. tcry), and Dr. Nesbit delivered an ap- .*'-' propriate speech. ■-'-* An inquest was held this afternoon a<s 7-'-'' to the death of the infant, Hector Me- '■.-$ l-liorson, who died on Tuesday. The ver- - -"'* diet was that death wus .due to diph- 3 theria, and the juy added the following ' -i r der: "The jury desire to comment most strongly on the complete neglect of the > i Health authorities to take any action in •";'■« the present case, the same being-a seri- Aous menace to the health of the com- Y-S munily, and would also draw attention : .% to the absence of any place where ißOla- 'M Ition or conveyance tlieroto can bo ob- •'■% tamed in infectious enses, and trust tliat J "' * the newspaper press will not cease to * urge on the proper authorities the neces- 1 sity for immediate action to remedy the present state, of affairs"

Ur. Ogston. Health Officer, Dunedin, - states m regard to the inquest on Hector McPherson, no blame is attachable to ms Department, and thnt on receip't of Or. Fulton's message he sent forward an order to the hospital authorities, wm were bound bj law to provide for such cases, 'tfiej took no. steps In the matter. Nelson, July 10. j At a full meeting of Civil Servants to-night, Air H. Eyre-Kenny presiding, \ the resolution was adopted: ■■ J iJiat tins meeting learns'with great •• pleasure the announcement made by the' . i Bight Hon. tho Premier that it is prrfl ■' i posed to introduce a Superannuation Bill ,*S for the whole of the Civil Service, audi - 4 while thanking him for bis'personal in- 'J terest m the matter, express their earn- $ est hope that the same bo introduced as £& early as possible in order to ensure its V being passed during the present session of Parliament." .;

ti •,,- . yangtnui. July 10. . I Ihe YVangamu Agricultural Associa- < lion deeded to-night to hold the annual .1 show on November 13 and B J