GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 241, 17 November 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

A SERIOUS DEADLOCK. By Telegrnpn.— Pren Association. Uroymouth, Tuesday. A serious deadlock is,' threatened At the State mine. The manager demands a reduction in rates for* pillar coal and certain workmen refuse to agree to this. (They have been giveu till Friday to sign the new agreement. A conference is now taking place.

COLD OX THE WEST COAST. Hokitika, Last Night. Owing to the mutilation of a telegram received in Hokitika from Wellington a wrong figure occurred in an Association wire despatched from here on Saturday night in connection with the formation of a company to work Fiddes and Baucke's claims in the Wiloerforce Valley. It was stated that a large sample of tho ore assayed by the Mines Department gave a result of €4 Vfts Id per ton. This should 'have read £44 19s 4d.

THE PROPOSED PRIMAGE DUTY. Invcrcargill, Last Night Unvercargill merchants arc strongly of opinion that Hip operation of the- one per cont. primage duty is unnecessarily cumbersome, anil should lie modified in some wnv. At n meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon a resolution was carried asking that the (iovcrnment tuko steps to .produce the amount of revenue required by leaving the surtax on one class of goods only, or, failing this, to make provision whereby primage on goods lie collected as soon as they arrive in the dominion.

A PRISONER RECAPTUREU . Chriakhureh, Last Night. ! A prisoner named Frederick Croager, who escaped from Hanmer prison camp about six weeks ago, was captured this afternoon at Rolleston, where he had been living in a tent made ont of woolpackn. He waR living on a quantity of preserved meat, stolen from the Islington freezing works, also damper wade out of pollard, and potatoes conked in a bucket. He had been filling in his lime making horse-hair match guards, of which he had nine when arrested.

A "OMAN'S DISAPPEARANCE. Auckland, Last Nitrht. Mrs. Emily Nicol, very well Enown in Auckland as a social reformer, is reported to have left her home in Arch Hill this-' morning and to have disappeared. A letter left by Mr*. Nieol wilh a relative, and a communication nuiile lo her by the police, have created a. feelins of anxiety as to her welfare. The missing lndv. for whom a search has been instituted, is stated to have heen despondent of late owing to certain domestic troubles.