LATEST. TELEGRAMS GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 December 1907, Page 2

LATEST. TELEGRAMS

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

i?cr Press Association. Dunedin, Tuesday.

A petition seeking the release of Lionel Terry from ScaclilF Mental Hospital and asking his conveyance to another country is being prepared. Jlv.i. Sullivan, whose dressmaking plant was destroyed by lire on Friday, has lodged a claim against the City Corpora I ion for £855, alleging the lire was caused by the negligence of one of the Council employees. Wellington, Tuesday.

A deputation from the New Zealand Ilowinj; Aewciatiou waited on the Minister for Customs this morning to ask thai, the duly of 21) per cent, on racing boats should lie cither remitted or reduced. .The .Minister replied that the altered tariff bad now come into operation, and be had no power to alter any item.

Hamilton, Tuesday. The Waikato Coiilminem' Union at llunlly has resolved to approach the directors for an inc-ne in the hewing rate, and, failing an agreement, to ask the Arbitration Court to revise the late award. It is stated the men would not work under the present conditions, as was proved by the nunilier leaving. Auckland, Last Night.

The secretary of the North Auckland Railway League reports that the.line is now finished to Wayby, GO miles from Auckland, and that stock, produce, and passengers are conveyed over the line by the Public Works Department to the finished section nt Kaipava Flats. The next section of the line to Wellsford is being laid, the ballast being carried from Mount Albert, a distance of 02 miles. It is estimated that this section of the line will be finished by 31st March and thrown open for traffic. The line will then reach the important centre of Wellsford, many roads branching off from there to the East Coast and the Knipiira waters. Beyond Wellsford the line is surveyed to Kaiwaka, a distance of 82 miles, and beyond that the survey parties are locating the line. The sum of £40,000 was voted last session for this railway.

'lhe l'aruell Council lias decided to ai>l>ly to Mr. Carnegie lor a grant of iauuO for the purpose of erecting a library iu tkc borough. Sneaking to-day on the subject of compulsory service, Air. Justice Denniston said it seemed to hiui that our obvious duly was to prepare ourtselves as a community to Uefend ourselves on laud. With our small population, this could only be done by some such organisation as that which exists in Switzerland. We should endeavor to make training in arms not merely an episode in the life of each of us, but part of its essence. If even a small part of the energy of our young men which found its outlet iu games and sometimes less commendable forms could be diverted to acquiring skill in the use and practice of arms and a certain amount of drill and discipline, we should in time create something of the feeling of the Swiss Republic, in which realisation of the paramount obligation to defend one's country seemed part of the very fibre of its people. "If," he concluded, "we allow ourselves to remain in our present supine self-contempt, X fear we shall some day have a rude awakening." Wellington, Last Night. The secretary to the Benevolent Trustees reported to the Board to-day that, taking the period of eight months from Ist April to 30th November, the issue of rations had increased by 50 per cent, over the corresponding period of last year. There had been a slight increase iu disbursements for rent, from £4ll in 1000" to £4OO in 1907, but in 11)05 the sum of £SOO was expended under this he.uling. The rents paid during the past three months had been in excess of the aggregate sum paid for the corresponding months of 1005 and 1000. The tendency of outdoor relief was in the direction of increasing. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night a resolution was passed placing on record the great regret at the untimely death of Mr. A. Bayley, President of the Union, and expressing sympathy with liis relatives, The committee decided, in reply to a letter from tin Auckland Union, that under Rule 7 of the ltiinfurly Shield regulations"' the net proceeds of all '-specially" challenge matches are the property of the New Zealand Union. A new section of the electric tramway connecting Seatoun, near the Heads, with the city, was formally opened to-day. .At the Seatoun end, the line goes through a tunnel which is the widest south of the Line. Christchurch, Last Night. To-day was the hottest day experienced this summer. The thermometer registered 90 degrees in the shade, as against 87 on Sunday last, which was the maximum for the season up to then. The Arbitration Court gave judgment to-day in the case in which the tt'estport Coal Company charged the Dennision Coal Workers' Union with having committed a breach of the award bv inducing members to refuse to abide by clause 10, The award provided that the men should be at tiie face for eight uuurs. The Union was of opinion that the Coal Mines Act of 190/ had cstabiisned the "bank to bank" principle, and mid reduced their working hours occasionally. The Court held that the Union had committed a breach of the award, but the Union ollicers had acted under a bona hde misapprehension. No title would be inilictea. The tn'uH must uuido by the terms of the award, and any further breach would have to be severely punished, and the Union was ordered to pay costs. Taihape, Last Night. A deputation of sawniillers in Hie iianglikei district waited on the Premier and complained of the harassing manner in which they alleged small" regulations governing sawmuling traffic on the railways iu the Wauganui district were administered, particularly m regard to demurrage, and asked that the District Trallic Manager at Wanganui should be removed. The Premier, in reply, said he would have an investigation made into the speciiic charges mentioned, and if they were as stated he would see what could be done in the matter. 1 egarding demurrage it was essential that it should exist, not that the (Jovernment desire to make revenue thereby, but to avoid the accumulation of rolling stock at stations.' it was « the interest of the tut waggons should be made use oi tor storage purposes.

t™ i n I , um ' cai 'S il U,ast Night. Joseph Gough, Thomas Davis, Geo.-™ McCucmey, Win. Sampson, Fr d. U?o Stevenson, and Francis Webb, were charged to-day that o„ Nqvpmbcr 17 n without a license so to do, contrary to 1 w tv ', " S ■ X ' arS wwimmt,. 1-ing l Inend had watched the men out ordering, „nd he detailed Z taking of two trout, which subsequently S*J»",W' MeChesnlH hi that he a one handled the trout, and nit the others had nothing to do wih with % o as T victcfl and *»«» d af-.imsi the others were rtiqmksn,l „„i costs 10s each al.owed to "' and "J' tw ? **>■ A «cond change l"K>ng the use of a scin net within i mouth of the stream, contrary to the •'' : -can