GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

RETUENED HOME. By Telegraph— Press Association. Wangantri, Last Night. The Union Boating Club's crew, -which won the champion fours at Uobart regatta, returned home to-day, and received a hearty welcome. DAIRYING. Ashburton, Saturday Night. At a well-attended meeting to-day, as the outcome of a meeting held three .weeks ago and a vigorous canvas since made of the county, it was unanimously resolved, "That a co-operative limited liability company be formed with the object of erecting a central butter factory at Ashburton and ere'amtiies wherever sufficient inducement offers." The capital of the company was fixed at ,£SOO (sic), and Mr. Hugo Friedlander was elected chairman of the provisional "directorate. Between 1300 and 1400 cows wtire guaranteed for the first year, with substantial increases for the second and third years. NAVAL TOURNAMENT Palmerston North, Saturday. The Palmerston North Naval and Military Tournament Committee has decided to interview Admiral Poore. in command of the Australian Squadron, with a view to securing the attendance of a naval contingent at the next tournament. The committee will take advantage of the flagship's presence in Wellington at the present time.

.SEQUEL TO CORONER'S ENQUIRY. Auckland, Saturday. At the conclusion of the coroner's enquiry into a fire in an ironmonger's store in Jervois road, Ponsonby, on 26th February, in which it was shown that the outbreaks occurred in more than one place, the police arrested Walter Bates, occupant of the premises, and charged him with wilfully attempting to set fire to the building with intent to defraud the Royal Exchange and the Standard insurance companies. WORK FOR THE MAGISTRACY. Eltham. Saturday. For some time nast work at the Magistrate's Court has been netting in arrears, and great inconvenience and expense has been caused to litigants by repeated adjournments of cases. The Boron>/h Council last nijrht resolved that the attention of the Minister for Justice ■be drawn to the urgent necessity for appointing an additional Stipendiarv Magistrate for the Tarnnaki district, also two additional Justices in Eltham. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST STRIKERS. Wellington. Saturdav. The Department of Labor has decided to institute proceedings the met] who went on strike at the Southdown Freezing Works.