NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 50, 18 February 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

TAIJKA.UiA'S PItOCIKESS.

Per Prcaa Association. 1 Wellington, Monday. -Messrs Keen and Keid, of Wellington: who have entered into a contract to supply IJn i town of Tauranga villi <«a.s lor ;i period of thirty year*. will leave for Kngland next month to procure a complete gas-making outlit. Jt is their present intention to aUo purchase a couple of SOU or 1)00 ton steamers with wiiieh to njien up trade between Tauranga and Wellington. TIIK St't UJM.J .MATCH. \\ailgaiuii, Monday. Th<' c«mt<MimU for the sculling championship ari' stjn actively training. Bain ami l-'ord, TrcsidjlerVj trainerj and pacemaker, express themselves as still being very hopeful that their man will be tin- champion of the world next week. Dick looks bright am well, and i* iiL wonderfully good con dii inn for a man of his age.

Several Australians who smv Webb row yesterday express astonishment at die improvement the New Zealauder has made since lie rowed in Australia. They declare his style is altogether different from that shown by him ill the Watch against Towns, and conforms much more In the ideas of Australian e authorities than it did in Sydney, 1' TIIE POWERS OF UNIONISTS. c Pahiatua. Last Night. <' At a meeting of the executive of the n Pahiatua central branch of the Fanners' t'uion, it was resolved to urge the provincial executive to do its utmost to obtain an amendment of any new Labor Hill to the effect that a reasonable pevteiilage »f the employees must lie members of a union before the union should have power to cite employers to appear lie fore an industrial court. IMPORTANT NEWS. Damicvirkc, Last Night. ■A new 12-inch water-main, to take the place of an 8-inch main from the reservoir to the town, has been opened, and is .resulting in a big increase of pressure. SLY GROG-SELLING. Wellington, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Charles Clarke, alias James Clarke, was charged with unlawfully selling beer to Leslie Roy Capp, a probationary constable, on the 20th January. William John Dunne, a probationary constable, ' stated that he. in company with another ' probationer, were living at the Paragon Boai'ding-house for the purpose of dc- '' tccling sly grog-selling it any occurred : there. On the 20th January witness noticed defendant timing persons to a certain place opposite his bedroom winP dow. Witness, accompanied by Capp, the other probationer, went down and obtained a bottle of beer. Capp paid I- Is Gd tor it. Mr. Toogood, for the de- '- fence, stated that the accused had bought beer and had given it away, but e on no occasion had he sold beer. .Mr. r Riddle, S.M., lined defendant £5, in S default fourteen days' imprisonment. ; l NAPIER'S GROWTH. 0 Napier, Last Night. 0 The valuation of the borough of Na- *! pier for the current year ending 31st , March, 190(1, has just been completed. u 'The amount is £104,209, as compared with £1)8,071 for the previous year, an l ' increase of £OI9B. Last y«ar's valua--11 tion, £98,071, was an increase on that }' of the previous similar period of £0437. 'J Napier was declared a municipality on 20th November, 1874, and the valuation . c for the year ending 15th November, ' "1575, was' .£37,300. The value of pro■"j perty in the town has therefore iuj creased in thirty-four years by £60,909. d WELLINGTON HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. ' Wellington, Last Night, y The Wellington Harbor Board, to-day ;- authorised the prosecution of works e daring the current year to cost altoe gether nearly £120,000. Tile chief item I. is £43,000 in connection with King's wharf and stores. d t PREMIER IN THE NORTH. >■- Hamilton, Last Night, e The Premier was in Hamilton to-day. t He opened the Carnegie Library, was e entertained at a garden party at Lake t Reserve, visited the Hospital, and in- ,- spected the new bindings, which cost i, £15,000. In the evening lie received 1 deputations. d ATHLETES WELCOMED. East Night. The Dominion representative athletes '' on their way to the Australasian chamI pionshtp meeting at Hobart, passed '* through Invercarglll to-day. They were welcomed by the Southland centre. H' NEW LIGHTHOUSES. e Wellington, EaMi Nighte The Marina Department lias decided--0 to erect the new lighthouse on the ~ northern coast of his Island at Cape ° Brett. The light will he a flashing light . of the first order, about 500 ieet above j the sea, and visible seven miles past j The Cavallis to the northward, and southward down to a line drawn bc- ! tween the Poor Knights and the Three 1 Gables. The light Is expected to be in- , stalled within 18 months. 1 AN UNFOUNDED RUMOfi. . Wellington, Last Night, i r A Press Association telegram from . Auckland received yesterday stated that 1 the totara bush at Mokai was in danger of being swept away. To-day Mr. Dalziell, chairman of the Taupo Timber Co., telegraphed for particulars, and was informed that the report was incorrect, and that there was no fire in the bush or near the Mokai mill.

CARDINAL SIORAN'S VISIT. Auckland, Last Xiglit. Cardinal Moraii visited St. Patrick's Cathedral and several other Roman Catholic institutions to-day. This evening lie opened the St. Patrick's grand Dominion festival., which is being held in the Royal Albert Hall in aid of the building fund of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In the course of his remarks he expressed his pleasure at the great changes that had taken place in religious and social matters in New Zealand since his last visit twenty-two years ttgo, and ho •specially referred Id tiie Ugh distinction m (lie iillc of "Dominion" which had] roccmly l>c<>» conferred upon tills COuntry. I'iie cni'diMl !eaxs£forJJotwuaJ to-morrow morning. I