GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 25 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ILL-TREATMENT OF HORSES. By Telegraph.—Press Awociation. Wellington, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court this morning Edward Bloomfield, a milk vendor, was fined £2 and costs for ill-treating two horses. Walter Andrews and Ernest Sergeant, employees of Bloomfield, were eaeh fined 30s and costs for ill-treating a horse. All the defendants pleaded guilty. , MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE. Invercargill, Last Night. A poll of ratepayerse was taken today on a proposal to raise a special loan of ,-£52,000, including £10,21)1 for street and drainage work, £3124 for street widening, £1535 for beautifying the Waihopai river and reserves, £3OOO for land and plant and the corporation quarry, £4750 for fire brigade plant, land and buildings, £BOO for underground conveniences! £IO,BBO for harbor, reclamation, £4120 for jetty and approach, and £750 for gasworks plant and extension. Small public interest was taken. At 2 p.m. there were less than 140 votes recorded. At one of the eight polling places at 1 p.m. not a single vote had been recorded. In all, out of 3059 ratepayers on the roll, 481 recorded their votes. The result was 325 votes for the proposal, and 155 against.

THE IRON TRADE. Christchurch, Last Night, in conversation with a reporter, who mentioned to him the conference of the engineering trade held in Christchurch last evening, and asked whether there was any possibility of a protective tariff being put on iron goods, the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister of Education, replied that \as long as ,\vo lived we would find protected industries asking for more protection than was the case in every other country. As to the possibility of an amendment of any tariff, Mr. Fowlds did not make any statement, but indicated that it was a remote contingency.