GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE LYTTELTON DREDGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Some anxiety loyally concerning the Harbour Board's new dredge Tewhaka, which left Melbourne on August 23 and was due at Lyttelton on Tuesday. The dredge must have run into heavy weather, but should have reported at the- Bluff before this. The Tewhaka cost £13,000. The Harbour Board takes delivery at Lyttelton. NGAURUHOE ACTIVE. Wellington, Friday. A letter from the back-blocks says that Ngauruhoe is restiVe' again, and the writer could hea-r it plainly this week though some twenty or thirty miles away. He adds': In consequence it is snowing. Old hands heidSays' when Ngauruhoe grumbles, always follows." i, " : ' t! i iU ' ,: ■■ ■ fi (u i'J.l v: DECEASED PERSONS?. ESTATES. Wellington, 'Friday. The largest estate of a deceased person finally certified : for .'.stamp duty last month was that/of Henry Williams, of Napier, £llO,Oll. Other large estates were:—i James, B. Fisher, Christchurch, £24;266; ( . Henrick J. Hill, Napier, £ 23,401;. Thomas T. Masefield-, Auckland; £22,477. ' VICTORIA, .LEAGUE.;.. Auckland, Friday. At a meeting of the general' council of the Victoria Leagued:was-resolved that a public subscription be. called for a sum of £3OO with the,object,of placing in order the graves of soldiers and statesmen in the cdme'tries of the Auckland Province, and that %&% Government be asked to subscribe £ for £, the total amount, required being,'£6oo. ■'. DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS. Dunedin, Friday. The competitions were continued today. The attendance., was > again very good. Results:— ! Contralto Solo.—Miss Janet Bennett ' (Oamaru) 1, Miss J. Kavenny (Dunedin) ■ 2, Miss E. Skerrett (Bluff), 3. •<• Bass Solo.—Robert, church) 1, Alfred Ma4sind,\4Dunedin) 2, C. J. Stewart (Ppi£,. Chalets) 3. Impromptu Speech!—J. L. Robinson (Dunedin) 1, G. G. Hughes,(Dunedin) 2, D. Hebenton (Masttertdh/eV : "" SI4UG »Mfe, : Mr. Tregear, SeCrey/y"oMl(e Labour Department,- writes, ..jjo'tihe press that on seeing Ms. GilbM^nsersorr , s accusation of deterioratiott'W-'the slaughtering trade he communicated with the managers of the panies throughout . JfevyZealand, and with hardly a solisary ( j!«jtcep(tion the reply is that there is - nftlirutji in Mr. Anderson's allegations, ,;jn)..some aase9 the result of reeertt',ft»«ai;djf has been! to effect improvement and to induce extra care. "'•[v/.—*m/

PROGRESS, OFj,NAPIER. (i ujj&pie.)", Friday, the value of 6 £> g mfwyp yj the value of "£16.056' were issued in Napier, which is /aj fiov ■} the borough. The permits include twbmew wool stores costoa f .£3ooQ,aud respectively and J ft l pic , - ture theatre. M/b - T '>»« VWABSCONDING 'ARREST. At a meeting Frank Higgins, former'lv' ! Wellington, to-day, the OMeiaT'AsSigfiee'' ireported that a cablerluad been received from the police in Hobart notifying the arrest of bankrupt W that city. The message also stated that Higgins had been remanded! f&Tsghp|flW«qi{bail being refused,,and that the sum of £640 had been traced. It aTso stated that bankrupt's solicitor had offered to pay up to £3OO to bona fide creditors. The Assignee congratulated creditors on having taken steps to 'bring TEe bankrupt back to Wellington as soon as it was known he had left the Dominion,