GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 155, 22 June 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE PREMIER. v By Telegraph.—Prose Association, i Wellington, Lust Night. Sir Joscpll Ward returned to Wellington from his northern trip yesterday. ' NEW IMMIGRANTS. Auckland, Last Night, .Some of the immigrants who arrived , by the e.s. Cornwall yesterday morning have already been found employment by the Labor Bureau. The immigrants are mostly from the British Isles, but the newcomers include some from Canada and the States. Another fifty arrived by the Takapuna, having transhipped from the Corinlhic this morning. These also aro promising colonists, Their homes were in the old countries, and their pursuits are varied. FIRE BRIGADES ACT.. > Wcstpjort, Saturday. A proposal to bring the town und/nr the operations of tho Fire Brigades Act was lost by 145 to 142. I LABORER MISSING. Westport, Saturday. A laborer named Samuel George .Tones, 30 years of age, a native of Tasmania, has been missing from villo since the 10th inst. Search parities failed to find him. EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION. Wellington, Saturday. At a meeting of the Advisory Boa'di of the Employers' Federation it was decided as the Hon. ,T. A. Millar had expressed lus intention 10 introduce ]egis» lation early in the session to define "a iding and abetting" in eonneetir _ with strikes, in the meantime to refil ,;j, fr.om instituting proceedings against fi w ' various unions alleged to be cmw . r^,ec j ■ in aiding and abetting the Bis /i. tol ,: strike. The Labor Department wro «i' that it intended to take, proceeding agamst the men who struck r mi,. nganui Freezing Works, ffV. Fed",- " will semi a deputation to the conference of tlm Fa>W tWto e,r I deavor io obtain the. aviation „f -,n Farmers' Unions will, t fc e Federal,, , r mutual })roicct>€»v. STBAXOE-BToAinr CASE. ivir u~, Satnriliir. I m ia ",' Um r vs ~« chemist, 34 << (I, pleaded guilty and was sent to Ort Supreme CourUorsentemecvon a oh.,r"c "fstr?nf\f ' (lwlnration «»e Rcb nmv W n^v S ' Pris °n« admitted ife IV/L S,UI ' h,!,VB * dnrnk at tjh» 1 of the second marriage.