GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE HINEMOA. By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Dunedin, Yesterday.

The Hinemoa will leave here to-mor-row, to land stores at southern lighthouses, and if the weather conditions are favorable, Captain Bollons expects to be ready to leave the Bluff for the Macquarie Islands about Friday week. Mr. Hatch has accepted an offer of a passage to the islands in the Hinemoa at 7s 6d a day, and the men can come back in the steamer at the same rate. Freight on stores by the Hinemoa will be £2 10s per ton.

SHORT WAGES PAID. Auckland, July i 4 At the Magistrate's Court to-aay John Fleming, builder, of Grev Lynn, was fined £lO with £1 Is 8d costs for a breach of t|e Auckland Carpenters' and Joiners' award, in that he tailed to pay two men in his employ wieir wages as required by the award. THE WEATHER DOWN SOUTH. Christchurch, Yesterday. The rainfall at Kaikoura for July to date exceeds 12 inches, and it is still raining. All the rivers are in flood, and the roads are for the most jMrt impassable. There is a big slip on the road to Cheviot. The rain is *he heaviest ever experienced in the cistiict.

THE TERRA NOVA. Dunedin, Yesterlay. Mr. John Hill, of Dunedin, who is in England, writing to a friend, says: " I met Captain Scott, and offered to coal the Terra Nova free of charge if she took her departure from Port Chalmers. This offer lie accepted."

A BURGLAR ARRESTED. Christehurch, July 18. A burglar who had been operating here for the past three months, during which period many business premises have been entered, was arrested by Detective Osborn to-day. The accused, who is a young man of about twenty yei:■ > of age, against whom nothing is previously known, had a jemmy and a sixchambered revolver in his possession-