GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

MINING TRADE SLACK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wcstport, Last Night. Mines in this district are having a very slack time just now. Seddonville and Stockton have done very little work this week, and the Westport Coal Company's Granity mines have been idle for two days, their Denniston mines also being idle to-day. It is anticipated that all will be working to-morrow, but broken time is looked for up to tht end of the financial year, owing to large stocks accumulated during the strike scare.

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Timaru, Last Night. Two hundred and thirty-five applications for Canterbury runs have been lodged at the TTmaru land office, most or all of them for 21 in Ashburton and Mackenzie, but there are many duplications, some putting in for ten. Some South Canterbury men lodged their applications at Christchurch. The examination and ballot will take place at Timaru on Monday. Fifteen other runs, containing existing homesteads, will be auctioned on Tuesday. A remark has been made that there is no condition requiring the runs to be stocked, and that it would pay to hold them idle for future goodwill. A BANKRUPTCY CASE. Auckland, Thursday. Tn the .ease against Walter Francis Darby, found guilty of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, the Supreme Court reserved various points raised by the defence for the Court of Appeal, and granted permission to move for a new trial. Accused was admitted to bail in £OOO. WANGANUI AND ITS BAND. Wanganui, Thursday. At a public meeting held to-day it was decided to render a public reception to the Wanganui Garrison B'.md, and a committee was set up to carry out arrangements for holding the function on Friday next. The speakers emphasised that the reception was not in the nature of a "tarigi," but merely to show that, in spite of their recent reverses, the bandsmen still had a warm corner In the heart of the public. "THE DAUGHTER OF A DUKE." Palmerston N., Thursday. At the Police Court to-day a man and a woman who had been living in a tent on the bank of the Manawatu river, at Awapuni, were brought up on a charge of vagrancy. The woman stated that she was the daughter of a duke, and had £IOOO a year pocket-money. A hardhearted Bench, however, separated the pair, by sending the woman to Wanganui goal for a month, and the man for a similar period to Wellington goal.

SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO YOUTHS. Christehurch, Thursday. In inflicting fines at Lyttclton on a bnrmaid, of 10s, in respect to each of three charges of having supplied liquor to youths, Mr. Bishop, S.M., said that servants in licensed premises would have to exercise more care in supply persons regarding whose age they had any doubts. It was not sufficient for them to merely ask if a person was over twenty-one, so inviting untruthfulness. Where any doubt existed a servant should refuse to-supply liquor. If any licensee was brought, before the court for having refused to serve liquor to such a case he would uphold (.lie hotelkeeper where there was reasonable ground for his suspicion.