GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MAORI WILL CASE. . Per Frees Association. Auckland, Thursday. His Honor Judge lidger gave judgment of the Native Land Court to-day in the Maori will ease. His Honor saiil it was not so much whether ICaihou was to obtain the property mentioned in the will as whether the aspersions thrown on his eharactr in connection with the execution of Hie will could be cleared away. H had not been shown that testatrix was menially incapable of making her will, nor that she did so under undue influence from Kaihou. His Honor held it proved she understood she was leaving a share of her property I to Kaihou. The will was upheld over such part of the property as passed under it. MASONIC. Auckland, Thursday. The Grand Lodge of Masons, after a lengthy debate, carried resolutions repealing clause 48 of the book of constitution and substituting a clause providing that any application for a warrant to hold a new lodge shall be by petition to the Grand Master signed by at least seven Master Masons, regularly registered under the constitution. A motion to alter the system of voting in tin Grand Lodge was negatived. THE RHODES SCHOLAR. Wellington, Thursday. Mr S. N. Ziman, of Auckland, tli Dominion Rhodes scholar for IUOB, wa entertained by his co-religionists hen The Rev. 11. Van Staveren (Rabbi), Mi i Myers, M F. E. Bauine, M.P., and the' Hon ,T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, were among those who congratulated him. Mr. Baumc stated that the selection of a Jew was a source of gratification No distinction of religion was made by the late Cecil Rhodes, but from one cud of the Empire to the other search was made for good men, whether Jew, Protestant, of Catholic. Mr Ziman, in replying, said he hoped he would not disappoint tile expectations which had been formed of his career,

FLAX CULTURE. Wellington, Thursday. tDr. L. Cockayne has been appointed by the Government to superintend experiments in plant-breeding on Government agricultural stations. The first series of experiments will be in connection with improving the commercial I Qualities of New Zealand flax. The doctor will shortly visit Auckland expe- ' omental stations and begin experiments on the flax there. The variations of phormium will be fully investigated, also the action of definite soils upon fibre production, and the like. He hopes to publish in the spring an account of phormium tenax dealing with its wild and cultivated varieties and its variations und'er natural' coiulit|ionsJ As the result of the experiments mentioned it is hoped to materially increase the Output of flax and improve the fibre. Such improvements have been successfully carried out in the cases of many other plants.

DOCTOR'S LEGAL DISPUTE. ' Wellington, Wednesday. The Appeal Court is engaged with the Nelson case of Moore v. Orford. Tile parties are medical practitioners. Appellant sold his practice at Richmond in 1905 to respondent and agreed that he would not practice within eight miles of Richmond. In 1907 appellant went into partnership with two other practitioners in Nelson, which is within eight miles of Richmond, and practised in Nelson for three months. Respondent Orford brought the action to recover liquidated damages under appellant's bond, and Judge Cooper entered up judgment for £3OO. This is an appeal from that decision. Wellington, Last Night. In the Appeal Court, in the ca.se Dr. Moore v. Dr. Orford, judgment was reserved.

ARRIVAL OP IMMIGRANTS. Auckland, Last Night. The steamer Morayshire, which arrived from the West Coast of the United Kingdom ports to-day brought 76 immigrants for the Dominion, the bookings being as follows:—Auckland 24, Wellington 23, Lyttelton 18, Port Chalmers 10. The day before the vessel reached Capetown, Mrs. Burness, who, with lier husband, was proceeding out to Canterbury, died from natural causes.