GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 184, 8 September 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MR. HOGG AT DUXEDIN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Niglu. Mr. A. W. Hogg, M.P., who arrived here yesterday, was accorded an official welcome by the Trades and Labor Council tonight. Several speakers referred in praiseworthy terms to tne stand tik 'd up by Mr. Hogg in the House, and to the servcies he had rendered to the labor cause. Mr. Hogg replied 03 the Jines of his previous speeches elsewhu-e. He will address a public meeting iu the Garrison Hall to-morrow night.

MAKING THE RAILWAYS PAY. Wellington, September 7. A deputation from the New Zealand Fruit Brokers' Association waited on the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, and urged a reduction of freight charges on the railways for Island fruit —oranges, pineapples, bananas. The, Minister held out no hope of anything Ibeing done in that direction at the present time, and reiterated his intenition of doing everything possible to put the railways on a payable footing. The whole question of freight charges will, he said, be the subject of careful revision in five or six months' time.

BURIED REMAINS OF A CHILD. Auckland, September 7. Jerri* Wright, a resident of Claud* Road, Epsom, whilst digging in a garden discovered the remains of a newlyborn male child in a decomposed state. iThere in an indication that the child had been buried for several days. Tht police are endeavoring to trace its par entage.

MAORI MARRIAGES. Auckland, Last Night. A Maori marriage contracted according to Native custom does not carry with it the benefits and disabilities of the Destitute Persons Act. So decided Mr. Kettle, S.M., at the Police Court to-day. The matter which raised the point was an application for «ne rehearing of a case in which a maintenance order had been made against Paho Pai for the support of his wife and family. His Worship gave it as his opinion that the Court's jurisdiction was confined to marriages solemnised according to New Zealand and British law. Maori marriages were recognised in the Native tod Court. He advised the Natives that they should apply to their member to bring the matter before the House if tney de-l aire an alteration in the aw Wlule, the case was -being discussed, Mrs. Wikorima, who was acting as mterpreter, received a telegram from the Hon. J. Car oil and when the Magistrate read it fce said his opinion was) supported by ttat of the Native Minister. The «- hearing was granted and the proceedings quashed.