NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 310, 7 January 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. I COMMITTED FOIt TRIAL. Timaru, Last Night. Julm W. Morris alias Keddell, was committed for trial for alleged misappropriation of £0 belonging to a former employer, who was the owner of a eliafl'cutting plant. He collected money and disappeared, being arrested in Wellington. j

I IMPORTANT NEWS. i Napier, Last Night. The Napier Carnival Committee have added to the other attractions of the carnival musical and elocutionary couii petitions, open to the whole of New Zealand. j f i KAHTHQI'AKK SMOCK. | Blenheim, Last Night. I ; A shock of earthquake waa experic | eui-ed at ten minutes to 7 o'clock this r. 1 eveniiiL'. The direction was from nortu

to south. I STANDARD INSI'IiAXUE COMPANY. Duitcdiu, Lust Night. ) At an extraordinary general meeting j hi s.ii.l iviioiuiTs oi cut: standard Insurance Company held to-day, the following re.-oluuon was ciirricu:—"That the company be registered under the Compim.cs Act, IWM, m> a company limited ny shares, and l hat the company's name be changed to "The Standard Fire anil I .Marine insurance Company oi New Z«aI land, Limited.'"

iil'lUi I.ARY AT I'ALAIEK&TOX. l'almerston -North, La,;t Night. Mr. W. Kirk's residence was burglarsed during the holidays and rilled of a urge number of valuables. The owner ivns upending tlie. holidays at tlie senlido, and the burglary was only dis•overeil 011 Saturday by a man employed ibout the place.

CIIANHES IN LANDS AND SURVEY i DEPARTMENT. Wellington, Itast Night. Mr. Strauehon, Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Jjmds in the Wellington district, will lie transferred on Ist April to take charge of the Auckland Land District. His position here will he filled l>y Mr. J. Mackenzie, now Commissioner of Crown Lands in Auckland. These changes are toeing made in consequence of the immense amount of development which will occur in the Auckland district in the near future. Thifl will involve a large amount of survey work, a branch in which Mr. Strnuelion is a recognised expert. (JOLD EXPORTS RETURNS. Wellington, Monday. During the past fifty years New Zealand has exported 18,218,(178 ounces of | gold, valued at £71,528,978. Returns > for last year show a decrease of 55,t>35 ounces, valued at £243,414, as compared with the exports for 1900. The. totals for the two years were —1907, 508,208 ounces, £2,027,41)0; 1900, 503,843 ounces, £2,270,904. Last month's export was 45,839 ounces, valued at £181,749, as compared with 51,1)49 ounces, valued at £208,080, in December, l!)0(i.

FEILDING'S PROGRESS. Veilding, Monday. During last year buildings valued at £20,000 were erected or commenced in the borough of Feilding. Among these are a fine two-story building in brick for the Bank of New Zealand ami a twostory brick building for the Feilding Technical School. THE HINEMOA'S VISIT TO THE KERMADECS. Auckland, Monday. The Government steamer Hinemon returned last evening from her visit to the Kermadecs, where she landed theparty of scientists from New Zealand, which is to remain on the island for twelve months. The depots, which were found intact, were overhauled, and, whore necessary, the contents were renewal. There were great quantities of frui : . principally oranges, growing there, but in places from which it would be almost impossible to ship them. No wreckage was seen at any of the islands called at.