GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 142, 13 July 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

.ASSAULT IX WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Fiank Johnstone, a recent arrival in ami formerly employed in the Kaitaiigata coal mine, was assaulted l\y UVO men in Courtenay Place and kielied in the head. lie was unconfcious lor nearly an hour. H<. is now in the hospital. His' assailants escaped. TOST OF IIUXXIXO A NEWSPAPER. Wellington, Last Night. At the annual meeting of tile N«w Zeilimri Times Company. Ltd.. the shareholders unanimously adopted a proposal for the issue of an additional £50,000 worth of ordinary shares. The directors reported that preliminaries for the dotation had already lieen arranged; the 'hulk of the new shares had been disI'Oaed of, and there were indications that the remainder would shortly be taken up. Kcfercnce was made iii the annual report to the encouraging sunport the Times was receiving under its pieseiit management, and complimentary al.usions were matlc to the work of ilie various stall's.

WELLINGTON* TRAMWAYS. Wellington. L„st Night. Ihe dancer's re],oil of the working f the Wellington electric trams for ■Vl'r-„ C n«V. ' )lai ' < ' l ' 31st ' stiltl ' s that •J 1 :-'-'"- " W'Vasew w.'re carried, being 1,0/4,1/11 more thaji during the previous ,'" on !. lls - Tll ° J."'"* revenue was 11.111,-l.lt) (increase 111,125); traflie heveinu'e ,C 125,832 (increase £10,22(11 «P«w* .till ,1172 (increase 1S8J4); excess of revenue over exl>eiise» 144,7114 (increase 12501); net ••ui-plus, 15034' (increase 1300), THE COLONIAL PIIYSIQ[*E u Gjivjstchurch, Last Night, to -ilirilf • attended public meeting to--light the question of colonial phyMqne.wn* discussed. Motions were earned m favor of the medical inspection 0 «:hoo„s and the adoption of ft system . physical and military 'train-

THE LATE MB. JAMES, S.M. Masterton, Monday, A meeting of Justices and solicitors !nou vot f lnsterto . n I ms9(,d an unani- \ w "i a of the late »• I'. .lames in his integrity as a and his upright^.? I _ .i.ii 'Hi/:, a and deep sympathy with ! '"t w «' y % Tlu ' funeral loTorrow. t0 thG miKva - v station

ROBBERY AT GKBORNE. Tl , ~ . p'sborne, Monday, rhe railway station was robbed yesloi.lav morning, 50s heing taken from ivith W " S " 0t

METHODIST CONFERENCE. rn mi i-i , ® une( l' n i Monday. The Methodist Conference has 'anpointed a committee to draw up P a working s'eheine, in reference to the in i impendence conference, for submission o he .Tune quarterly circuit meetings. Up to the present 25 congregations have ' nn-idered the question, the mini,her of office-bearers present at the deliberations i >cmg 457. Of this number 312 voted m favor of the separation and l opposed rtj 10 were neutral.

Tit a drought-stricken town far out West W it.h eood water we're not often blest,' Which brings many ills, And we often need pills, Pn we use Laxo-Tonic, they're best LAXO-'rnxic PILLS, in./ 3 d and bd— Bul.oek and Johnston, Agents, New Plymouth,