GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 197, 10 August 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

AumruAiJos COUKT. i!v Telegraph.—Press Association. jnvercargiil, Last JNigiit. Several cases iiuve been set down for Injuring bctore tile Arbitration Court on iuesday. These include about half-a-dozen breaches of awards, an application by the Sawmill Workers' Union for a new award providing for increased "ages, a compensation case, and charges against A. ittcMcil, \V. Lewis, and Co. and Masters and Sous, that they, not being occupiers of tailors' workshops nor employers of tailors, did receive orders from customers for sluts of clothes. SLit-GKOG RAID. Dunedin, Last Night. The police raided the premises occupied by George Fisher, at Balclutlm, on Saturday, aud discovered about four bottles of whisky ami one bottle ot iimi. A prosecution will tollow. Fisher was lined recently on a charge of sly-grog selling. RAILWAY STATION- DESTROYED. ■ 'J'imaru, Last Night. The passenger station at Fairlio, combined with the post ollice and telephone exchange, was burnt to the ground in the small hours of this morning. No one saw where the fire originated. There are no further particulars available. 'Hie stiitionmaster rode to Alliury and telephoned the fact', and arranged for material for to-nior-row's business. THE TIMBER INDUSTRY. Taihape, August 8. At, Tailiap-e. a meeting of sawmillers considered tlie advisability of casing'* off for a few days in each week in' order to curtail the output. The proposal was defeated by ;i bare majority. Independent of this some mills are slackening work. About fifty hands will be thrown out of employment. Sawmillers meat at Wellington oil 2!) th inst. to further consider the situation. CHINESE SHOOTING AFFRAY. Auckland, Saturday. Ah .ling, the Chinese, who was alleged to have been shot hy his mate, dieil this morning.