GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 70, 1 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BLorriNCr OUT.. WE ■ BOO.KIE. By Telegraph—Press Association. ,Wellington* Last Night. A meeting of men interested in the immediate repeal of the bookmaker section of the Gaming Act has been convened for to-morrow evening. The meeting will determine the steps that snail be taken to impress the matter upon the Go vernment. MAST.ERTON COURT 'RETURNS. Masterton, Thursday. Masterton Court returns, for the first six months of the year 1909 (under license) and the first six , months of 1910 (no-license) show a marked dewey.se. The figures for 1909 and 1910 are respectively:— Drunkenness, 137,. 23; common assault, 20, O; theft, 18. o;'housebreaking, 6, 0; resisting police, 8, 0; failing to support' wives or relatives, 9, ,5; no visible means of support, 9, 1; obscene language, S> 2; sly-grog, 0, 6; ■bringing liquor into no-license area, 0, 14.

WELLINGTON CAPPING CARNIVAL. Wellington, Thursday. The capping carnival took place to- • day. Sir Robert Stout, Chancellor of the University, .presided in the Concert i Chamber of the Town Hall, where the degrees were conferred this afternoon. Earlier in the day the students of Victoria College made merry in procession through the streets. There were many novel features, and the procession—the first of its kind in Wellington—was witnessed by thousands. The students brought up at the Queen's Statue in Post Office Square, where burlesque speeches were made. MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. Gisborne, Thursday. A, bottle has been discovered in Waipawa Lagoon containing a slip of paper with the words, "'Wrecked wn Young •Nick's Plead, Meteor." The writing is identified as that of a fisherman, Jack I Olsen, who, with a companion, sailed from Gisborne on September 10, 1908, in -the yawl Meteor and has not since been hoard of.