GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 17 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

STRANDING OF A SCOW. I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, September 10. The nautical enquiry into the stranding of the scow Orakei at Tahuna on August 26 last was held before Mr. J. S. Evans, S.M., and Captains Post and 'McNab, assessors, to-day. The Court found that the stranding was due lo the negligence of Master Ttheridge, and suspended his certificate for twelve and ordered him to pay the costs of the enquiry amounting to £l2 4s Bd. STATE ADVANCES BOARD. Wellington, Last Night. A meeting of the State Guaranteed Advances Board at which Sir .ioseph Ward presided, was held this morning, when loans amounting to £241,001) werd authorised. BEET AND LINSEED. Levin, Last Night Levin has been stimulated to talk of Government assistance for. the beet and linseed-growing industries, and to inquire into the feasibility of establishing these industries in this district. A public meeting was convened by the Alayor, and there was appointed a general committee of twenty farmers and townspeople to make enquiries and collect facts for submission to another public meeting. The committee, this evening, was sub-divided into sections to inquire into various matters, including the best means of promoting closer settlement in this locality. 'MR. FOWLDS AT LEVIN. Levin, Last Night. The Minister of Education had the Auckland express specially stopped this afternoon to enable him to inspect the boys of the Weraroa training farm. He was received by Major Burlinson at the head of the boys, and' had musical honours done to him by the band. Addresses of welcome 'were given by the Mayor of Levin and 'by the head of the institution, after which the Minister expressed pleasure at the heartiness of the reception and his appreciation of the congratulations tendered him on his being selected as New Zealand's representative at the functions connected with the opening of the South African Federation Parliament. It was, he said, an astonishing event and a testimonial to the efficacy of British methods that so soon after the Anglo-Boer war both •races should Ije united and the Federation formed. SALARIES OF MARINE ENGINEERS. Wellington, Friday. Sir Josgpli Ward has received a 'letter from Mr. David Anderson, manager in Australia for the Orient Steam Navigation Company, taking exception to certain statements recently made by a deputation representing the Merchant Service Guild and Marine Engineers' Institute. The deputation had pointed out that while the engine-room stuff of the Maheno received £ll6 10s per month, the same staff on the Omrah got only £7O. In a letter published in Sydney Mr. Anderson pointed out that the Omrah had been dragged into tht distussion. quite gratuitously, having no connection with either the P. and O. Company or with competition in New Zealand trade. The statement that £7O per month was paid to the engine-room staff of the Omrah could, he states, only emanate from an ignorant imagination. The wages amounted to £220 odd, exclusive of the stokehold staff.

FORGING A CHEQUE. < Gisborne, Friday. Annie Love, a young married woman, resident at Muriwai, pleaded guilty to forging a cheque for thirty shillings, and was committed for sentence. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Wellington, Friday. William Dryden, a middle-aged man charged at the Police Court to-day with attempted suicide, pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Norwood stated that the man had been drinking for a fortnight. Counsel for the accused said the caise was a sad one. Accused injured his foot while working on the Main Trunk railway line, which debarred liim from regular employment. When he was on the relief works at Kaiwaka, he learned tliat his wife had t6 sell but, and he returned to Wellington in a state _of destitution. This preyed on his mind but the attempt to commit suicide was not due to drink. The Court entered a conviction and ordered accused to come up for sentence when called upon.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

Wellington, Friday. The erection of the first portion of the Roman Catholic Cathedral for Wellington will be proceeded with in about two years time, and it is estimated that the building, which will probably cost about £30,000, will be available for service within four years from the present date. The amount in hand is £20,000, which has been well invested, and it is hoped to have the first part of the cathedral opened free of debt. The completion of the \vhole scheme will occupy a number of years, and involve the expenditure of considerably over £50,000. The cathedral is to occupy a site at the corner of Tory and Buckle Streets, adjoining St. Patrick's College, and St. Joseph's Church.

BOWRON BROS. Christchurcli, Friday. The court will ait in camera this afternoo* for the assessment of the amount of penalty to be paid by Bowron Bros. This is in accordance with the provision of the Act that no proceedings for the assessment of income tax be taken in open court. BEEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE. Wellington, Friday. 'At the conference of delegates representing the New Zealand Beekeepers' Association to-day it was decided to form a federation of beekeepers, to be known as the National Federation of Beekeepers, having for its object the advancement and improvement in methods of bee culture.