GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MUNICIPAL BORROWING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercnrgill, Lust Night. The ratepayers of Invercargill at a poll to-day carried by 170 to 43 a proposal to borrow £IO,OOO in eoimccttion with the enlargement of the municipal abattoirs.

ODDEELLOWSHIP. Dunedin, East Night. The Diamond Jubilee celebrations o' the Oddfellows of the Otago district are at present being held in Dunedin. The opening ceremony, which took place in the Harrison Ualul to-night, was a banquet at which speeches were made showing the progress of the Order in Otago. There are now 30 lodges m the district, with a membership of 4257, whie the edges' funds amount tu CKS - 823. The Hand and Heart Lod"" founded in 1-848, has a membership of IKW, and the lodge fund j s valued at 01,002. A church parade of Odd-, fellows will he held on Siindav, members marching to the First Church, where a special service will be conducted be Dr. Nisbet.

MOTORIST PAYS COMPENSATION

Wellington, December 4. On April 5 last Murdoch CUllics a telegraph operator, was killed while cycling on the Hutt Road, as the result of a collision with a motor car owned by John Onring Johnston and driven by his servant. The Public Trustee on behalf of the parents of deceased sued Johnston for CM)] damages. The' case was to have been lizard at the | Supreme Court to-dav, but it was announced that a settlement had been arrived at between the parties. HALF-11OTJ0AV QUESTION. Dunedin, December 4. The Mayor and the Trades Council are taking action with a view of fixing Saturday as the weekly hiilf-bolidav lor Dunedin and Suburbs.