GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 303, 1 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

THE CLOSE SEASON. ; By Telegraph.—Press' Association. Nelson, Last Night. . A deputation waited on the Hon. T. ' McKenzie to protest against a close Reason for quail, on the ground that they ■were very abundant and destructive. The Minister said that in the soutli paradise ducks were being shot wholeKale, hence Ministers were inclined to carry out the Act rigorously, but he would represent matters to his' colleagues. . ; GOLD RETURNS. I . -iiM ,v.i • Auckland, Last Night. The gold returns for the Auckland province for the year 1909 show the total value of the output as £1,312,824, * falling-off of £4594 compared with the previous year. The decrease was at Thames, which returned £10,739 less than in 1908. The Ohinemuri increase was £5298, and the Coromandel increase £846. The Waihi mine produced •£952,639. AN ORATOR COLLAPSES. \ Christc-hurch, Last Night. Whilst addressing a public meeting at the Opera House on Sunday evening D. Scott Bennett, an Australian Socialist ''orator, was suddenly taken ill and collapsed into a chair. He was unable to ' proceed with his address. A doctor in: ['the audience attended him, and he was l Removed to his hotel. He has been eni imaged in Socialistic propaganda work in | the dominion, and is apparently suffering from the effects of overtaxing his •trength. HEAVY RAIN IN WELLINGTON. < • 1 "■ 1 Wellington, Last Night. Practically continuous rain has been falling since Friday night, the record up to 9 o'clock this morning being 2.35

inches, the heaviest for a long time. No reports are to hand of any damage . !on the railways. The thick weather has 'delayed coastal shipping, and work <»n the wharves has' been much impeded. CHAIR OF MILITARY SCIENCE. Christchurch, Last Night. Lieut. Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., offered to give the Board of Governors #' subsidy of £2OO per annum towards the support of a chair of military science at Canterbury College, provided the Xihair at that college is the only one established in New Zealand. At a meeting of the Board of Governors to-day 1 the offer was accepted, and the chairman ■ toas authorised to communicate with the 'government on the matter and ascertain Vliat support they will give to the ' proposed ehair at Canterbury College. RAIN IN THE SOUTH. Christchurch, Last Night. For the past fortnight the weather ihas .been very unsettled, and on Friday afternoon the rain, which had for som» jtime previously been intermittent, commenced to descend in a steady down- . pour, and has continued ever since. Unless it quickly abates it is probable that •serious damage will be done in the country districts. The local observatory reports that from Friday about 2.30 p.m. up to 2.30 p.m. to-day 2.219 inches,' of , rain had fallen.