NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 16 March 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

. GUBERNATORIAL MOVEMENTS. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Lord Plunket leaves Wellington tomorrow for Auckland en route to attend the. Ngaruawahia regatta, and 'the Maori meeting at Waharoa. Lady Plunket will leave on Tuesday morning. .DEATH OF A VETERAN. . Ashburton, Last Night. An old imperial . so iait-r- named James Larkm, an inmate of the Old Men's Home, died early on Saturday mornin^ t'l IfFf '" KiU ' b - J° iM d tie Bbth Regiment in 1850, and w»nt throught the. Indian Mutiny under Brigadier Stewart, lie then joined the SM fiegnnent., and subsequently the 671 h Regiment ('Hainpstcad Foot Fusiliers) with which he was before Pekin with the allied English and French armies in 1800. He al so served in Japan and Bunnah, and held the Indian Mutiny medal and medal and clasp for good conduct and long service. He arrived in the colony j„ 1874, and will be accorded a military funeral to-morrow

SUCCESSFUL LAND SALE.

Ashburlon, Last Night, t.roiiln; Hurn farm, two miles fro>u Asldmrtoi, | lle ])r()| , er(y ol - , ]le late Ronald Williamson, and homestead of the original Ashburton run which extended over fifteen miles and included the present town and suburbs of Ashburton, was sold at auction yesterday, its 22(1 acres realising ,€52 per acre. '

MILK-SELLING REGULATIONS. _, Duuedin. Saturday. The milk trade regard the new regulations as too drastic and likely to have a very disturbing influence on that induslry. Mr. Roy, president of the Dairymen's Association, said the dairymen were sympathetic with the Health Department, but as the present regulations indicted unquestionable hardship they would be strenuously opposed Jhe new regulations entirely missed their mark, showing that the Stock and I Health Departments conflicted, and there would be an immediate increase in the price of milk. *

ECHO OE THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Wellington, Saturday. An echo of the South African War was heard in the Supreme Court to-day It is alleged that several officers and men who served in the war in loo] have never received full pay for that vear and there is a movement to petition on their behalf. In th e meantime Lieut. Uias. Cnbb, who served with Colonel l arkcr and is now resident at G,evniontli, has instituted proceeding against Colonel Parker in the M,i"fstrale's Court at Greymouth, the claim

being for pay during the month* of November and December, 1001, amounting to £56 8s Od, or with Interest at 8 per cent, in £74 13s. A' motion was brought on in the Supreme Court this moniiii" on behalf 0 f Colonel Parker to remove the case to the. Supreme Court. Counsel stated that intricate questions of law were involved. Tt was contended that the commanding officer was not personally liable for the debt, which, if due, dionld be paid by the British Govern-

ment. An order for the removal of the ease from Greymouth to Wellington was mane.