GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 24 September 1910, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE.

By Telegraph,—Press Association. Dunedin, Friday. The Otago Trades Council unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the expenditure of public monies on the Governor's residence in. Auckland as unnecessary and entirely unwarranted. It was decided to urge Dunedin and suburban members 8 to resist any vote being passed for the purpose.

BOOKMAKER FINED. Wanganui, Friday. At the S.M. Court this morning Sydney Biain was charged with haying laid tote odds on the recent Rangitdkei Races. Evidence of two police constables was that accused made bets with them in the bar of the Rutland Hotel, Wanganui, under the impression they were navvies. .Three separate bets were made. Evidence for the defence sought to show that the constables were under the influence of liquor and that defendant had repeatedly refused to accept their bets. The Magistrate said he had not the slightest doubt of the truth of the constables' statements and recorded convictions. Accused was fined £ 15 and costs. EARTH TREMORS. Hastings, Friday. Earth tremors have been frequent during the last few days, and this morning at 2.45 o'clock a Sharp shock was experienced. NEW ZEALAND WINE. Hastinjgs, Friday. I Mr. Bernard Chamibers has received official notice that his Te Mata wines were awarded a gold medal at the Japan-British Exhibition. BANKRUPT HAULM) BA«K. Wellington, Friday. Alfred Frank Higgins, formerly a grocer in Wellington, who was arrested . at Hobart, was remaned to-day on a charge of committing a breiach of the I Bankruptcy Act. The police reported 1 they lhad in their possession a bmk [draft for £SOO. Counsel for bankrupt I stated that the amount found on his client was more than sufficient to pay the whole of his creditors. Bail was > allowed accused in £IOO and one suretj of like amount. , DAIRY COMPANY v. SUPPLIER. Woodville, iLast Night. A case of interest to dairy farmen was partly heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day: The Hawke's Bay Dairj Company sued H. A. 'Rosenfeldt for £2O for breach of an agreement in 'M con tinuing to supply the creamery of th( ' company with milk and going over tc ' another company. Only the evidence was taken here. Legal argument wiL be heard in Wellington. Mr. Dalziel, ol the firm of Findlay and Dalziel, WeJ- ' lington, appeared for the company, and | Mr. Blair, of Messrs. Chapman, Skerretl and Wylie, Wellington, appeared for the defendant.

NAVAL DJSSERTER CAPTURED. Palmerston N., Last Night. William Buctoan Barlow, who deserted from H.M.S. Pioneer at Auckland on March 12, and was arrested by Detective Quirke at Komako on Wednesday, was this afternoon committed to Mount Eden gaol, to be handed to H.M.S. Encounter on her arrival. Barlow, who hails from Dunedin South, twice deserted'in Sydney, serving 42 days in gaol. On being recaptured this time he worked his way down the Main Trunk line, and thought he wa& safe on a fanm, whence/ he contemplated returning home to Dunedin. He informed a -reporter to-day that he would mever go to sea again. If he did he would commit such an offence against discipline as would compel his dismissal from the Navy. ENTERPRISE OF UNION S.S. CO. Wellington, Last Night. • The Prime Minister this afternoon received the following telegram from Mr. Hold&worth, manager of the Union Steamship Company: "I have pleasipre m informing you 'that the Union company* has contracted with the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Glasgow, for a sixteen knot passenger steamer for the inter-colonial trade. It will be 430 feet lone, 55 feet 6 inches beam; and, as compared with the Marama, will be larger, faster, and in every way superior. The contract time is August Ist of next vear, and the vessel should be m service in the Dominion in twelve months from now. The cost delivered will be approximately £200,000." ,