GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 306, 22 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE DUNEDIN NORTH ELECTION. By lelegraph.—press Association. Dunedin, Lust flight. ali. liarehiy has decided to proceed with Jus election petition. Mr. Barclay status that tile issue is "arrowed down to three questions, fist, was the returning officer jiwtiM in striking oil the votes for Barclay, 011 the ground of dual voting » Second.* Was Barclay entitled to one or more votes winch were treated as informal 1 Third Was it right to accept absent voters' jutes for Thomson and reject those for Barclay ( The petition is filed on a basis of the number of votes recorded being the same as was found by Ihc returning' officer on the official 're-count liie question of missing votes arises in 110 way. Under the Act a special court 1°;! nf- h;ls t0 bc "I'Puintcd by -he Chief .Justice to hear the petition." eillilSTCUlTxC'H lIALF-HOLfDAY, . Christchurch, Last Xiglit. lhe City Council to-night resolved to ■support 1 hursday as tlic day of the Noddy half-holiday. UHXESE IMMIGRATION' RKSTRICTIOXS. Diraedin. Last IferTit. At the Police Court this afternoon,' , i'Ui'lies pleaded not guilty to a charge tlml, being- the master' of the steamer Gowanlmru ,he did permit- a I lima inn 11 to bin,l without t'ullil)in<r the ol ' Hie Immigration" Restriction Ac), lilrjS. Defendant was (intj ,s - witl '. ™ sls <-•» 10s. " A second vii.t igc was withdrawn, ff this Chinn- !""" IS ""t i*i>-ca]jtiii'f(l the company will be responsible for the payment (if the poll-tax. He left the ship at Lvttel-

I MAYOUAL KM'X'TIONS. ' Oliristclmrcli. Last iVio-ht • ,' , lr ;, '-""Rlmnii lias decided 'to oonti'st the Mayoralty next vflnr. WRIT FOR LIBEL, i ir T.ast Xijrht. t Mr -.}■ , M - Sfinpcr, K.C.. has issii'.,l a writ claiming .C2(K)O (or libel against U' proprietors of the Xe,y Zealand limes. MK Wcllinytiuij Last Xiaht. A lire took place to-iiig-ht in premises at .Newtown owned by .Martin Kennedy and occupied by C. 11. Harris and Co. as a 1 11111 it 11 re factory anil warehouse. A portion of the first iioor was severely damaged, and the stock sull'ered from lire and water. Tile insurances on tho building arc .I'-JUU in ilie United ollice. mill on the contents JC 1:200 in the Atlas ollice and .WOO ia lh« Alliance.

COXSCI JiNTIUUS Dlli Jit'TOUS. Mastcrtou, Mondav, The directors of the Jute firm * of Howell and Co. lmve instructed Mr. W. i>. CheiinelU, Jitjuidator, to pay all claims against the estate in lull, more as a moral than a legal obligation. One diieetor mlio luid not signed a certain guarantee bond for a considerable overdiaft at tho bank took up the position that lie would have signed had ho boon requested, and therefore paid his full share with tho other directors, who, on a strictly legal basis, could only have been called upon lo pay seven shillings in tile pound to ordinary creditors.

KonODY'S CHILD. Thames, Monday, 'J lie police arc prosecuting inquiries about a well-developed male child found dead amongst tho raupo growing ou Hie tailings reserve near tho wliarf. In the medical opinion the child had not breathed. There is a possibility of the mother having given birth to'the child on the spot where it was found, and the child may have died wliilo being born. The inquest has been adjourned to enable the police to trace the mother,