GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 182, 23 July 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MUNICIPAL LOAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A meeting of ratepayers has authorised the Auckland, City Council toi raise a loan of £130,000 for various! city works and street improvements. WANGANUI COLLEGE. Wellington, Last Night.

The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stoat) this morning granted leave to the Wanganui College Board of Trustees to borrow up to £35,000. RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN SCHOOLS Wanganui, Lust Night. At the last meeting of the school committee, permission was granted to members of the local Ministers' Association to give religious instruction irom 0 to 0.25 on Wednesday morning of each week. The chairman of the Education Board has now issued instructions that school hours must not be altered without permission of the Board. This is practically vetoing the school committee's resolution.

THE ARBITRATION ACT. Napier, Last Night. A combined meeting of labor unions in Napier to-night passed She following resolution:—That while unhesitatingly re-ailirniing the principle of arbitration and conciliation, this meeting emphatically condemns the proposed Arbitration Amendment Bill.

INDUSTRIES WEEK IN AUCKLAND. Auckland, Last Night, Everything is well forward for the Industries Exhibition which is to be opened in Auckland on August *d.| The shop windows' display commences three days later. The sub-committee appointed to arrange, the allotment of space met this afternoon. It was reported that the building now being erected was not large enough to provide the space applied for, and it was therefore decided to erect an annexe which would provide 1000 feet of floor space. MINERS' STRIKE THREATENED.

Dunedin, Wednesday. In the event of the mine owners refusing to confer with the miners with regard to the hitter's girevances, it is stati-d that over four hundred miners in Otago will be prepared to strike immediately. ACTION AGAINST A HANK MANAGER.

Feilding, Wednesday. The civil action Barton (of Feilding) v. the Bank of Australasia, in which there is much interest, will be heard on August 10 at Wellington. AN INSURANCE ARRANGEMENT.

Wellington, Wednesday. Intimation has been received in Wellington that the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company hns taken over the business of the Norwich and London Accident Assurance Association. Both companies have been in friendly relations for fifty years. Under the new arrangement the accident business will continue to be conducted in the Norwich and London head office, and the present directors, managers and officials, both at the head office and the branches, are to bo retained. IBONSAND PATENT CASE.

Wellington, Wednesday. r An important decision in the matter, of an application for a patent in connection with the smelting of ironsaiul has been given by the Registrar of, Patents. The decision deals with the application of Horace Brown, of America, for a patent for a process in thci manufacture of steel in which ore finely divided is showered down a stack and subjected to the influence of a highly heated atmosphere. The'application was opposed by Moore and Heskett on the ground of the. infringement of the I patent of a similar process obtaining in connection with their invention. The Registrar considered the objection of defendants had been sustained, and refused to grant the application.