GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 36, 8 March 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

THE PREMIER'S MOVEMENTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christcnurch, Saturday Xight. Lite Prime .Minister arrived in Christchuroh by steamer from Duutdin this morning. All the morning, until nearly one 0 ciock, he was kept busy with deputations, mostly of a private nature, and with business urought before him by members of Parliament. 111 the i afternoon he attended t'lie sports of the Polo Club, lie will leave for Wellington in the evening.

FKI'LDING PUBLIC BATIIS. Feilding, Last Night. The municipal swimming baths, erected at a cost of .CISOO, were officially opened bv the .Mayor, Mr. W, J. B. Frewin, oil Saturday afternoon.

THE DROUGHT. Feilding, Last Night. The district is in need ol rain, and stock is falling in price.

HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS. Invercargill, Last Night. The "Hospital Saturday" collection for t'lie Southland Hospital was taken up vesterdav, and the" amount announced to date'totals about £OSO. There arc several country lists yet to coinc to hand, and it is calculated that the grand total will be £7OO. Of this amount small percentages arc to be net aside for the Victoria Home (for fricmuofis girls), Bluff Sailors' Rest, Prisoners' Aid Societv, and Wxpemiy t'bthtag Club, leaving 70 per cent, for the addition of a children's ward to the hospital. This is the second of such collections hero. Last year the total was i'll7B.

PORT OF WANG AN Ul. Wanganui, Saturday. The Harbor Board decided last night to proceed Willi Ac construction <>f the south breakwater. I'p to d.r ■ .>Sil feci, of the north brjwlnvaler !: ve been completed. Dredging ha- im proved the depth of the rive.', winch now 15 feet 8 inches deep in ihe dredged channel at high water spring-, and 14 feet 8 inches above t'lie dredge. Las» month the dredge lifted :«1,750 cubic yards of spoil, it* average being 1-81 per day.

OIIINEUUUI LICENSING ALLEGATIONS. Wellington, Saturday. The Governor has approved of tlie appointment of Mr. Justice Sim as the sole commissioner to enquire into the allcations made as to the conduct 1 certain members of the Ohineinuu Licensing Committee.

A TOTALISATOR FRAUD. Dunedin, Saturday. V'rn- altering totalisator ticket flgureß to make theme serve for another race—a common practice at A\ingatui Chas. .1. Mcintosh, storekeeper, was fined £5. He only escaped gaol because or his previous good character,

FOOD FOR FOODLESS.' Dunedin, Saturday. The secretary of't'he Trades Hall has cabled another' £6OO ill connection with the Bread Fund, making £I3OO,