GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 369, 21 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ELECTRICITY i\ AUCKLAND.

By Telegraph-

-Press Association,

Auckland. Last Might. A proposal to raise a loan of .t'220,000 tor the purpose of extensions and additions to the electric power station at •Auckland was submitted to a poll of ratepayers to-day. and .was declared can led by :!;)() voles to ]-}(,. There are liDiiit people on the rolls, so hat over ~00!. refrained from r ocor<lin e tlieir votes. b

KI.TIIAM ])AIKY COMPANY.

I'-ltlrani. Last Night."' I lie Dairy Company paid a net sum of .ITIMMI for .March, at the rate of lod JH'V 11'. for 'biiHor-fnt. Tie- .pmntity of butter produced was :i(i.i!:-l->|b„ an ' i n . (•lease on the corresponding month of last year.

The season's output i-: ejected to total .100 tons, as against 788 tons last season.

I'IRE KIiIGADL" DEMOX^TIiATIOX.

Tlokitika, Lint Night, . I" l ,h ' was h-id here tonight tor tli- purpose 0 f organism" a 1.. fnr ,|,e caning "lit or the ami ii:! 1 fire brigades' demonstration, to be held in llokitika next I'diMinvy. A strong committee was anjhhium. iiiu! :■[ was rosolvcul tiiat ;C4OO be the minimum amount of prize monev for the competitions.

ATTEMPTED IXCEXDIAUISM. Wairoa. Wednesday A deliberate attempt to burn down Stewart's Hall, next to McDoii"all's book depot, was discovered vestwday morning. On the building opened it was found that a stained-glass window at the back had been smashed, and on the table was found a bundle of halfburnt clothing taken from the washhouse of Storey's Hotel. The police are investigating. ,