GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TAUJFF ACT INTERPRETATION. By Telegra-ih.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Nihgt. In the speial ca.-e of the Electric Company v. Collector of Customs, Judge Cooper to-day held that the decision oi .Minister of Customs as to a foreign company carrying on business in the Dominion within the meaning of section 30 of the Tariff Act, 11)1)7, was final uii conclusive.

A STORM JN A TEA-CUP. Wellington, Last Night. In reply to the Maugamaire School Committee's resolution denouncing the Education Board for forwarding the names of teachers from Australia ta the exclusion of .New Zealaders, the Board states that of the sixteen applicants for tile position, while all /;iad some qualifications and some experience, only live possessed full certilicates, ami were qualilicd for the appointment, and of dice five, tiie names a,id papers of four were transmitted to the committee, the fifth being included in the selected list for a vacancy in another school. Of the four mentioned, two were in tile service of the Wellington Education Board, the third lias had over thirteen years' experience in New Zealand, though it happens that at present she is in Sydney, while the fourth was trained in Victoria but is now resident in -New Zealand. It is pointed out that it may lie true that some of the applicants" may be doing good work, but the Hoard cannot legally appoint them to positions for which there arc fully certified applicants. No fully qualified New Zealand applicant was excluded from the appointment.

WAXUAXTf SHOW. Wanganui, Friday. The entries for the Wanganui Show this year establish a record. Tile live stock entries tola] 2041! an increase of SOU as compared with last year's entries. The dorses total 711. cattle 18!!. sheep 3liß, dogs 553 and poultry 231. The dog section is a Dominion record, while the horse entries are also believed to constitute a Dominion record. .Besides the above then, arc 835 home industry entries and 328 in the school and art classes.

-\ia.\lf.\ctit;k uf steel pipfs. Wanganui. Friday. The Jlcphan Ferguson Spiral I'ipeCo. arc to supply the large 30in stccl'mains f"r (lie Wainui dam contract in connection with the Wellington new auxiliary water supply. The same company arc supplying the 24in diameter steel mains for the Auckland w.uer supply extension.

OOIPEXSATIOX CASK. Christchurcli, Friday. In the Customhouse compensation case, in which owners claimed .C21i.35S and the Government offered £IO,OOO, the Court awarded £20,000, with £BBO as interest from the day of taking oyir.

• SUSPICK)U,S FIIHOS. Oirl(;rl<iii. I'ri.l;,r. Al U() [o-ihn a ire l.rnke nut" ii> Martiiilmnmgh. 'adjoiiii-jg (|,-,. ~,.,,„,, ~f I In: late eonliajrraliun, i'nid three additional houses were destroyed, all belonging lo Al. .Jensen. Tlii-"o«tliivyk- U a mystery. There were six houses in I lie Jensen estate, a -J<! live have been destroyed by fire. The insurance on each house ivas t2oo in the Aiistralia7i Alliance and £.30 in (e Coinniereial l';iion. One house was occupied liy & N". Khig, and he lost everything, not Wing eovered liy insurance.