GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 239, 15 November 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

UNIVERSAL TRAINING PROPOSALS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The general council of the National Defence League considered the Prime Minister's Budget statement on internal defence last night, and resolved: '-That the general i oinicil of the National Defence League, having considered die general proposals for universal training submitted to Parliament in the Budget speech, urges all branches and individual members of the League to exert their inueme at this juncture in support of the proposals."

WEST COAIST tiOLDMINIXO. Ilokitika, Saturday Night. A strong company has been formed in WeMinglon to work Fiddes and Bancke's claims in the Wilberforce Valley, about which siu* a highly favorable report was made by Dr. Bell, the Government Geologist. ,v drive lias (been put in to' a depth of 180 ft, where a remarkably rich vein was struck, a large sample of the ore assayed by the Mines Department giving a result of £4 10s 4d ner ton. *

GOVERNMENT FERRY SERVICE. Blenheim, Saturday. The suggested Government ferry "service was considered by the Chamber of Commerce, which passed a resolution viewing the proposal with alarm, as it would be still further postponing the completion of the Main Trunk line." The Chamber urged that a substantial sum should be devoted to the immediate extension of the line.

YOUNG MAN RUNS AMOK. Chrietchurch. Saturday. A young man named Charles Brown residing with his mother at Springfield Scad, a t an early hour this morning suddenly developed homicidal mania and attacked his mother with a carvingknife in a violent and determined manner His elder brother, who was present, saved his mother from gettin" serious mjurv. The police were sent for" but Brown fled and has not yet been captured.