GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SKELETON 01' A WHALE, By Telegraph.--Press Association. Uiristchurch, Last Night. Mr. Edgar i\ Stead and party, who for the past few weeks lave been engaged in extricating a skeleton from a carcase of the whale scritnoea near Okarito, o a thu West Coast, returned to-nigilit. Mr. Stead states that witn the exception Of one palate bone, wnicu could not be found, the complete skeleton has been secured. The skeleton is now in a punt near the Okarito wuarf, and it will be shipped to Lyttelton on the earliest opportunity. The Christchurch Museum authorities will, it is understood, be negotiating for tins purchase of the skeleton, which is claimed to be one of the largest in the world.

LABOR ON MR.-JUSTICE SIM. Napier, Last Night. The annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay Employers' Association to-night passed a resolution in tihe same terms as that of the Auckland Association, deprecating appeals of labor organisations for the removal of Mr. Justice Kim from the position of president of the Arbitration Court. Wanganui, Last Night. Tlw Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting to-nigbt passed a resolution regretting that trades unions had passed strictures on Mr. Justice Sim.

THE FLAX INDUSTRY. l'almorston N., Last Night. Mr. C. J. Fulton, cihief Government (lax expert, addressed a well-attended meeting of tlie New Zealand Flaxmillera' Association to-day, reviewing his recent trip to Britain'and the Continent and making a number of suggestions for forwarding the flax industry in the Dominion. Mr. Fulton considers that the New Zealand millers may congratulate themselves on the prices ruling for hemp. In other flax-growing countries prices are still lower. He considers that if the millers combine 'to produce a good quality of hump, New Zealand will still remain in high favor.

PRESENTATION TO AN EDITOK. Palinerston N., Last Night. Mr. E. D. Hoben, editor of the Manawatu Times, was presented with a purse of sovereigns to-night in recognition of his public survices in connection with the recent mayoral election and to meet out-of.poeket expenses of the Hbel action arising out of it and which he won.

KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER & CO. Dunedin, Last Night. At a uweting of the directors of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., the New Zealand Drug Co., an interim dividend tor the half-year at a rate of 7 pe.r> cent, per annum was declared.

DISTRICT COURT. hm «• . . Mns <*rton, Last Night. Ihe Dtstnet Court opened its quar--11 y «,'■?? to ' da >' ~eforc J u°g« HasbuMier claimed from John Ogilvv David Ogilvy, and l>. R. Ogilvy, trad "iff as Ogilvy and Sons, butchers of Masterton, £3OB, on account of alleged malicious prosecution instituted by defendant against plaintiff. The ease .ufad all day. After retiring for , " dSdint, ]Uryi^"rneiiaVWdictf -