GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 264, 31 October 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; l'UßLlcm IN ....-uNMiliUi'TCi: PROCEED IXCS. « Christehu.ctl. Last Night. At a meeting of creditors in a bankrupt estate this morning „ creditor remarked that lie thought it M . undesirable that llu,. names of Hie creditors should be published in the newspapers. At meetings in Wellington' and Wangautii recommendations hail been made urging that the practice should ,be slopped, and lie though! the step was a wise one. 31 r. Evans the Ofik-ial Assignee, expressed ,iini!„ r views. Personally, lie d'd n„t see that any bone-lit could by derived from pu!> lishing the names. it was resolved that it be a recommendation to the Christelmreh newspapers that the names be not published in future. EXXUAOHDISARV TKXDKRIXU. Wellington, d.ast Sight, j An extraordinary range of prices was apparent in the tenders sent in to the I'il.v Council for ihe work of constructing tile proposed dam at Solomon's Knob. Waiiiili-o-mali, reservoir, The lowest lender received was for a sum -lightly over CIIJ.OOO, and the holiest was nearly double that nmoiml. ' The | lowest tenderer, however, had a doubt I as lo the sullieicncy of his estimates » and eventually he forfeited his deposit) of .C'.'ilHl, probably on the assumption that the first, loss would be the least. The. second tender at about ,u>O(K) more

was tli.-ii accepted In- the Council. The contract to carry out'the work has boon signed. Tin; lull list of tcml.-r.s is as follows:—John O'Do-anell anil Co.. £W,OSr>; JMiirtiii. tiurrell and Mnaddon, | £4O,!W(i; Donald McLean and Co. ,C5(1.17H; M. Frain, '.C75.41:!. OTAGO CJiNTKAL IUUAVAY. Hunodin, Last Night. In conversation with a Times reportfir to-day, the Prime Minister expressed the opinion that Hie Otago Central railway should take Hie form of a light line from Clyde (o W'ana k:i and also to Quocnstown. The cost would In? uiue'll less than Hint of coiiiinuing (he •present lieavv line a„u the work could be done within a few years. KEPAUUWIi a CARLK. . Wangnnui, Friday. The Tutanekai i s expected to finish repairing the Wanganui-Wakapuuka cable today. About two miles of new line will be spliced iiit 0 (l„, damaged section. OK Atf AICKLAN'I) rKoi'Kirrv. Auckland. Friday. A section with 35ft frontage to Queen street and a. de.plh of 100 ft. with i building four storeys high, known as (hi! Mutual Life liuililiugs, has been Mild to Mr. Al. O'Connor, hotelkeeper for .C'O.OOO.