GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 112, 9 June 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

AUCKLAND HABBOR BOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Xight. At the annua! meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board, tile chairman (the Hon. E Mitehelson) submitted the statement of accounts and returns for the ytar ending December 31st, 1008. The total receipts in- the general account for 1008, including Ibalanee from the pre-' vious year and refunds, was< £141,057 0» oil, the net revenue being .£101,719 IDs' 4d. The net revenue for 1007, exclusive of refund of accrued intercut on debentures sold, was £03,718 8s Od. There was thus again a large increase (amounting to £BOOI 10s lOd), which justified tin 1 «x,pi'ctatioa that the average increase for the past several years would be, 'maintained during the next few years. The profit upon tltc year'#, transactions amounted to £20,351 18„' 7(1, with the addition of the previous year's balance of £20,1-25 8s Od, inakhg a total of £40,477 7s Id. After writing oil' depreciation, the balance carried to the new account stood at £21,382 4s !ld. The additions to capita) values during 1008 amounted to £140,012 17s 4d, the net value of the property of the Board at .'list December last being £1,240,440 los lOd.

DINED] X ABATTOIRS. 'Duu'cdin, Tuesday. 'lnspector Snowball'is to lie granted six months' leave to visit the Old World before the city makes the improvements which the Government insist on being carried out nt the abattoirs. HEMP RETI'RXS. , Wellington, Tuesday. The hemp graded in the Dominion during May totals 0470 bales, an increase of 11*14 bales on the t'orrcsponding period of 11)08. The hemp graded for .the twelve months ending Mav 31 was 75,470 bales, a decrease of 30.474 bales for twelve months, LABOIUS MI. Wellington, Tuesday, A deputation from the cooks' and waiters' conference waited oj| the Minister for Labor with, a request for asswtatiee ameliorating the lot of workers in their calling. The speakers strongly condemned the conditions un-1 de r which tonka and waiters had to work. The Minister said the hours mentioned were, to say the least, unreasonable. lie would lessen theni if he could do. so. As to the condition of workers, that was of supreme importfjr C n' "" l! s<i, ' u ' lllt, K yifls in Wellington conditions that were simply revolting. T.he matters would receive the consideration of Cabinet.

WIXTOX CONGRATULATIONS. Invcrcargill, Last Night. A meeting of representative Winto:i I residents to-day discussed the propos-d vwt of the .Premier to EnglSind, and passed a very cordially-worded resolution of congratulation to the Government and particularly the Premier, on the decision come to by mcinibers vestcrday .1 lie meeting expressed p'ride ' , 7 ,T7 k ,ml ,ls tlll ' ir '•'■Presenta- , , , anient. The motion concluded: Awania will watch your progress v'L sl " ln ' conferred on hack," Tl,i " ly Wt ' lcoUM! .V° u

AGIt'IOr LTI r R ALT NSTRUCTI ON rn r, Timaru . Last Night'. The Education Hoard to-day took defn"tnielo°r T-" 1 t0 msrti uetor, resolving to oiler the £ " f "'"tnirtor to Dr. Hillgendorf, now at Lincoln ("allege, .at £4OO a year with th ia lu "lcrtaldhg this th the -new capitation regulation, for

EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES. Tiniarn, Last Night. A,i epidemic of measles is reoort'l , ' h "\ csx-aped when the other I HALF-HOLIDAY FOll railway SI'RFACEMEN. T)l , . . Hestport, Tuesday, he branch of the Amalgamated' Soi • Railway Servants is agitatinor a grant of ~ half-holiday f,„fiieemen. Ihe movi'inent; i* reeeivni" very general support from ,branches of the society t/irougnout the domin'Oil. Ihe executive council of the society has placed the matter before tne -Minister of Railways A BANKRrPTcV CASE. , rl Wellington, Tuesday. Llie question of a bankrupt's liability was involved in a civil action in which tile le Aro Loan Company sued G. ]!. Lnsk for taft. It appeared that Lusk' while bankrupt, signed a promissory note in renewal of a promissory note given before he was adiudged a Isnkrupt. Dr. M'Arthnr, S.M.. held that the original note was a debt payable in bankruptcy and under section 13-1 of the Bankruptcy Act an order of discharge releases bankrupt from that debt. Judgment wns entered for defendant.