GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 124, 16 May 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

NAI'IEK CAItNI VAL BALANCESHEET. | Per Press Association. Napier, Last Night. At a nirrtirijj; uf the Napier Carnival CoinwUke to-daj, an interim bahuicesheet wan siibmitieii, showing thai the receipts of the carnival amounted to C2OOO, aliout .C9OO on guarantees ami donations. Only a snip.li ■amount is outstanding. The expenditure was about £IOO less than the receipts. Jt was stated that there would probably Vic a surplus sufficient to enable the committee to Return about 111 per cent of the guarantees to guarantors.

A I»AIM'»KIv.S TIPS. Auckland, Last Xight. A witness giving evidence at the Arbitration Court to-day in the hairdressers' dispute. said that his tips amounted to from His to CI p-r week. "Do you poui Ihe lip-.?*' asked .Mr. llrown. "Oil, no," was tin: response; "we each kejp our own, except ;il Christmas week, when we put our lips in ,\ box, and split tlit'in us between us at the end of tlw week."

KISK IX IiUKAD. Auckland, Last Night. As a natural sequence to the rise in the price wf Hour, the housewife is to be railed upon to pay an increased price for broad. The committee of the Mas ter 15aker>" Association lias decided to recommend to a general meeting of members that the price of bread lie at once increased to 4d.

CIVIL SKUViCK srmtA\\\TATIOX. Wellington, Friday. | It is believed that practically the whole of the civil servants in the Dominion wili elect to <iniii l under the benefits of the Civil Service Superannuation scheme before dune 1.

TWO-UP PLAYERS FIXFD. Friday, i George Smith, a participant in a game of two-np in the open-air school lately raided, was to-day lined £i>. Kichard „\Jichkle, who acted as scout for the school, was lined X 7 and costs.

VACCINATION. I Wellington, Friday. Mr. Justice Cooper to-day quashed the conviction against W. J. Culver for failing to have his child vaccinated. The contention of the appellant Culver was that the Magistrate, Mr. lliddell, had lined Culver under subsection 4 of section 15!) of the Public Health Act, IIH.W, for failing to coim>iv »•»'!, the vaccination notice, whereas the only jurisdiction he had was first to order the parent to cause the child to be vaccinated.

WOOL PACKINt; AX!) UI'MIMNO " Clirislehuivh. Frid.iy. The Supreme Court ha.s |n,i:iy ilrrid ed that wool packing is ' uuiiipiiu.' The jm'-;;: I ill has the ellVct of brim: plaevs where wool and llax dumping a a carried on under the provisions oj llk Factories Act.

A LiUEL ACTION. l'oston, Friday, the proprietor of the Manawaiu Herald has been served with a writ by W. ilanier, a billiard saloon keeper, claiming cCoOI damages for alleged libel. The Herald published, particulars ol a police raid on the premises, but for some re:uoji the police, did not proceed with the case. Hence the action, ANMWJI MININC STIiIKK. JDundein, Friday. Christie liros.' coalmine at (Jrcen 1 Island has closed down, all the Jiands (thirty-live) having struck this morning. The trouble seemingly arose over the check inspection by the' men, provided by the Act. A MAORI CHIEF'S DEATH. Tauranga, Friday, the well-known chief Tamati Tu, head of the Tauranga natives, died this morning after a short illnoSs, at the age oM)4. He was a son-in-law of Hori Agatai. Tie leaves n grown-up familv lie received tile Noiv Zealand war modal 11 s » l >«tftntuil pension for aetiwr as Silicic In the British roops nt tho Galo I a and loranga fi ghts . T , l( , tan , rj wi|| he- tho largest lni,l |„. r( . for , fl>

JUKERS' CASH SYSTEM. Wellington, Friday. At a mooting of the Master Bakers' linen Jtwas reported that the cash system tor bread recently adopted here wis working admirably, and that custurners had taken kindly to the system