GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME. j Bv Telegrapn.—Press Association. Christchurc:i, Last Night. The Premier receives a deputation from the Christehuich City Council at Wellington on Tuesday, on the subject oi Lake Coleridge hydro-eiectrical power scheme. THE LOSS OF THE DUCO. Wellington, L-'-st Night. Application for a renoaring o: the nautical inquiry into the loss' of the Wellington steamer i)uco lias been refused by the .Minister of Marine on the ground that sufficient reason has not been advanced. '

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Wellington, List Night,

At the Magistrates Court yesterday. a young man named Eberhardt Ferdinand Renner was committed for trial on a charge of setting lire to a house at Wadestown. on the night of December 28th last. POLO. Wellington, Last Night. At the general meeting to-day of the New Zealand Polo Association, it was decided that the annual tournament to be held at Christchureh shall commence on Saturday, March 12th. Entries close on February 6th. It is expected ten teams will compete for the Savile Cup. VISITING CHURCHMEN.

Dunedin, Last Night. - Commissioner head of the Salvation Army in Australia, and Mrs. Hay, arrived in Dunedin to-day, and were, accorded a civic reception. The Rev. H. S. Woolcomhe, travelling representative ot the Church of England Men's Society, also received a sivic welcome. He will commence his mission in New Zealand here on Sunday, making a special feature of addresses to men, and will afterwards visit the rest of the dominion.