GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 221, 23 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

I PIANO-PLAYING RECORD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, Last Ngiht. Amidst the greatest excitement ever experienced in the Victoria Theatre, James Stirton succeeded in passing the world's record for endurance in pianoplaying last night. He plavcd continuously for lifl hours 17niin, .breaking th" former record of fill hours 2min held bv Travis. An influential and reliable committee watched the entire proceedings in relays. °

BREACH OF LICENSING LAWS.

C.isborne, Last Night. At the Magistrate':! Court to-day Charles' Hoggard. for exposing liquor for sale at Gold Creek, on the OisborneMotu railway route, was fined i.iO and costs ,C 7 fls 3d. A charge against the same accused for selling liquo> to cooperative laborers was dismissed, the proof of sale being insufficient, VALUE OP RUAPEHU'S BUTTER. Wellington, Fridnv. The value of the shipment of butter bv the Ruapelm yesterday, at lid per lb, was £80,816. ' EVASION OF CUSTOMS DUTY. t , „,. , Wellington, Fridnv. •lohn Winchester, a passenger by'tho Rimutaltn, was fined £lO to-day for endeavoring to cxade payment of Customs duty on various articles of jewellery valued at £W. The goods' were otdered to be forfeited.