NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 95, 10 April 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

A BOY SiIOOTIST. Per Press Association. Auckland, Lust Night. Tli.; Mayor of Auckland (llr. A. M. Myers) lias received a letter from Major .l.'llobh, of No. 1 Battalion of the school cadets (Oneliunga), in which reference is made to tlio invitation from Lord lioberts to Sergeant freer, of the On-i----hunga District High Sdhuo!, to visit Kiiglaml and enter tor the Lady (illiniums shooting cuni|ietition, for which | | representatives will lie forthcoming from I various jiarts of liio Knipire. Mr. r'recr (the writer stilled j hail'ileeiileil to pay his son's passage, but it seemed hardly fair to allow him to hear the whole tost. A number of citizens hud therefore requested him to approach tie; 1 .Mayor with the propositi to raise a publip subscription, in accordance with this request Mr. Myers this morning opened a subscription-list. Mr. Mvers has headed the list with .C 3 3s.

A BAUtH'K HOLD. Auckland, Lust Nielli The iron barque Hazel Craig, dtiV tons which was to luivi! been submitted l,i auction to-day, was disposed of privately last night, tile purchaser being .Mr. <i. 'l', \iccol, of Auckland. It is .Mr. XirailV intention to employ her in the KaiparaSydney trade. The Hazel Craig was Ju'iilt a'J years ago at Aberdeen, and was formerly known as the Quolhlamba. Her late owners w<'re the Hazel Craig Shipping Company, of tiisboriie.

ST. HIiLKX'S UOMKS. Auckiand, Last Night, (Prior to the Premier's departure for Wellington the member I'or City Central (.Mr. A. Kidd) interviewed him with reference to the working of the St. Helens Hospital and the apparent curtailing of its sphere of usefulness in connection with the instruction and examination of probationers Irom regis- j tered homes ami midwives who desired to go up for examinations under the new Act. Since then Mr. Kidd has writ-

ten "to the Minister tor Public Health jj> on the subject, pointing out, that th" " intention of the founder of these lio.-s- •' pitals (the late Kt. Hon. K. -I. Scddon, 1 was that they should be the means of > increasing the number of qualified i nurses ill" this particular branch, so that ( the poor might have improved attention. 1 Mr. Kidd went on to state that it had , been communicated to him that the. lee- i lures previously given at the hospital : had been stopped to outsiders, mifl were limited to the resident probationers, who, he understood, were four in number. This would not carry out the intention of the founder, and he had asked the Premier and the .Minister for Public Health to see that the old order of [ affairs was once more enforced.

'ill-IE COYKRXOiI'S MOVEMENTS. Auckland, Last Night. His Excellcmcv the Covornor (Lord Plunket) and Mr. Wateriield (private secretary) were passengers by the liarawa' this afternoon for New Plymouth, en route for Wellington. On Saturday Lord Plunket will lay the foundation-stone of the new Petone technical school, and afterwards he proceeds to Christehureh. He returns to Auckland about the 17th inst. Captains (lathorne Hardy and Lyon, A.D.C.'s, accompany His Excellency as far as Hawera, where they remain for a week's fishing.

CIIoWN LAM) TIIUUNN Ol'hN. Auckland, Last Night. Some 14,411 acres of Crown lands were thrown open yesterday for selection during April, tne lime for receiving applications closing on the 2!) th hist. A°ballot for sections applied for by more than two persons will be held on Bth May. Of the total amount, LI.SU acres are lieing opened ou the optional schema and JOB acres on the renewable lease tenure. All the land is described as second-class with Ihe exception of the Great Barrier Island and another in Tauranga county, which arc scheduled as third-class. MORE IMMIGRANTS. Wellington, iiist Night. One hundred and seventy-niue immigrants arrived Horn England by the Tonj'ariro to-dav. Their combined wealth totals about C2OU(I, the majority possessing from X,io to .UIOO, while one, who classes himself as a farm laborer, has X7OO. Most of them will endeavor to earn their living on the land, but there are some artisans and a few domestic servants. Thirtyfour were nominated by friends, 511 assisted, and H 5 paid their own passagus. Of the total number (ill booked to Wellington, 30 to Auckland, and 2u to Lyttelton. TELEGRAPHIC CODE. Wellington, Last Night. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce intends to solicit the co-operation of chambers throughout the Dominion in asking the ■Postmaster-General to take steps towards preventing interference with existing code privileges by the Lisbon Conference.

At'CKLAND SHIPPING liE'irKNS. Auckland, Last Night.

The oversea .shipping returns for the port of Auckland for Ihe year ended 31st March, as shown by the quarterly returns compiled by the Customs Department, state that during the twelve months 2lil vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 523,021. and comprising a crew of 12,317, arrived at the purl from abroad. These iigurcs show a decrease as compared with the previous tweh" months, when '271 vessels, of a total tonnage ol 1>13.,1Mi and a crew of l(i,H>7, entered the port. The departures for the past tw:>lvc mouths were 231, representing a tonnage of 3i>2.307 ami a crew of '.18D3. For the twelve months ended 31st March, I[lo7, the number was 220. the tonnage 3li!),(ili). and the crew 121,203. The decreases that are shown by the figures are due to the cessation of the running of the San Francisco mail boats, which were arriving and departing during the year Ulllli-7, but which have not been in commission during the past twelve mouths. The double arrival and departure of each mail boat on each trip assisted materinllv to swell the figures for Hillij-7, otherwise the iigurcs for the past year would have shown a marked increase. I!li.l.l.\lti)-l!0l).\l CLOSING. Wellington. Last Night, A deputation representing the licensed billiard-saloon proprietors asked the Citv Council to-night to extend the hour of 'closing from 1(1 to 11 o'clock. The Council of Cnurches followed with a deputation opposing thc extension. The first deputation urged that 11 o'clock was the closing-hour in Christchurch and j Auckland, where the fee. was CI, as ' against U.'i in Wellington. Rents also were much higher here, The ministers' deputation urged that extension of the closing-hours would tend to encourage gambling. The Council promised to carefully consider the matter.

VOUj.NTKICU CAMP CANTEENS. Wellington, Last Night. The executive of the New Zealand Alliance passed a resolution expressing deep regret at (lie step taken by Lieut. Colonel Jiaiicbop in giving an order for two canteens in connection with thc volunteer Faster encampment, WORKERS' lIOMKS-All'XlCll'Ab EN TER BRISK. Wellington, Last Night. The City Council to-night resolved Hint the city should immediately acquire land on which to erect houses for suitable tenants, and that the Council en- | dcuvor to arrange with (he Harbor Board means of providing wharf em- I plovccs and others with homes lit rents j reasdnablv proporlionale to their earn-j ings. The Council will hold a special meeting in two mouths' time to fulher discuss the nuilter. The Council decided ! to place a sum of CIOOO on the esii- I mates for the coming year for the development of the zoo and to provide siiJitrv for a caretaker.

I APPEAL COURTf Wellington, Last Night. v After the ease Pikirangi versus tlie i- East Coast Commissioner, now being arr gued, the Appeal Court cane, Bruce versus the Wanganui Education Board, will , be taken, then the case of .Donnelly ver- , Bus Meinerhitzhagen (Napier) follows. , Tlie Court will not sit during the Easter vacation, from lGth to 26t,h, and eases , lixed will probably occupy the Court, until after tlie vacation. AN OUTRAGE. Timaru, Thursday. Daniel Sargent, „ middle-aged farmer residing on a. farm of 200 acres twentyfive miles from Timaru, was committed for trial on a charge of wilfully killing a liorse, by shooting, and wounding three others. The horses belonged to a friendly neighbor. No motive is assigned for the crime. A BTCYCLE THIEF. Timaru, Thiirsclnv. A young man named Bell, who said , he was not sure of his name or age, but , remembered being brought up at Wanganui, wf.s sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having in his possession a bicycle stolen six months ago at f Wcstport. r