GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MAORI MORMONS GO TO SALT LAKE CITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, Last Night. Tamihana, a well-known Oroua bridge chief, left for Salt Lake City by the Auckland Express to-day to join the Mormons there with his family and a large number of other Maoris. The local Mormons and Maoris gave him a sendoff. TRADE OF WELLINGTON'S PORT. Wellington, Yesterday. The foreign shipping handled by the pilots and men on the Wellington wharves last month (May) constitutes a record for this port for any uiie month. It aggregated a net tonnage of 211,355 tons. To this must be added four steamers, aggregating 1108 tons, which entered the harbor en route for other ports, and in anchorage shipped bunker coal only. The gross tonnage amounted to 228.4G3 tons. BEAT THE WORLD'S BEST. Wellington. Yesterday. Mr. Ernest Short, of Parorangi, Feilding. exhibiting at the Argentine Centennial Show, has' won four first prizes and a world's championship with "Record Breaker TTT." a ram lamb, and a pen of ewe hosrgets. The reserve ram Godwin TV. beat thirty English exhibits. A message received by Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. states that Argentine breeders are delighted.