GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 234, 8 February 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

FREXCH CRUISER'S VISIT. '_ By Telegraph.—Press Association. 'I Wellington, Last Night. f| Commander Tiercelin, of the French E frigate Keraaint, and his officers wera ; the guests of the Wellington Club at . a dinner last night. To-morrow they i will attend the luncheon to he given iii ■ their honor at the Wellington Club by : Mr. James Mcintosh, French Consul in Wellington, and shortly afterwards the warship will leave for Port Chalmers She will then go to Akaroa and [ Lyttelton, and from the last-named port . she will sail direct for Noumea. BURGLAR CAUGHT RED-HANDED. Wellington, Tuesday. A burglar was caught red-handed in a second-hand dealer's shop in Manners street a little after 11 o'clock last night While passing the premises, occupied by Mr. Thomas Costello, a civilian's attention was attracted by a disturbance inside. He informed Constable D. Shaw at the Manners street police station,' and the latter, having impressed two or three passers-by into the service to watch in case of any attempt on tat part of the burglar to break away, entered the shop and caught his quarry with a parcel of goods made ready for removal. The man was lodged in the Manners street lock-up.