GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 24 April 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

' MOTOR RELIABILITY TEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Waipawa, Saturday. In the motor reliability race from Wellington only five out of ten starters arrived. Rain was experienced from the Manawatu Gorge to Waipawa. Bender arrived at 7.15, Hyslop at 7.19, Sutherland at 7.23, Gilbert at 7.46, Diffln at 7.47. Hyslop was dispatched on the return journey at 9.5, Bender and Sutherland at 9.0, Diffin and Gilbert at 9.12. It was raining. FEILDING SHOW. Feilding, Saturday. At a meeting of the committee of the A. and P. Association it was reported that Mr. J. McManaway had offered a 25-guineas challenge cup for the open hunters' competition. Jas. Campion' gives a cup for the ladies' hunters' competition, F. Bevan a prize valued at £5 5s for boys' pony jumping, F. F. Haggit a cup for girls'' pony jumping, W. S. Poole a ten-guinea cup for the Yorkshire boar championship, T. Duncan for fat sheep points prize, W. Reid a tenguinea cup for points prize in all sheep classes. The association has decided to send as a remit to the. Agricultural Conference that judges he asked to judge sheep on points for character, symmetry, and wool. LEVIX-GREATFORD RAILWAY. Levin, April 22. Levin Chamber of Commerce was resuscitated last night primarily for the purpose of forwarding the movement in favor of the Levin to Groatford railway deviation. Dr. 11. D. MoKcnzie, who was elected president, in the course of an address mentioned that the deviation would short en by an hour the journey from New Plymouth as well as to Auckland, and the daily aggregated saving to the railways would be 300 miles of actual running additional to loss wear and tear as the result of the level route of the deviation. The meeting resolved to circularise various Chambers of Commerce with a view to holding at some central town a conference of delesates favorable to the deviation proposals. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER, Gisborne, Saturday. J. Kerr Eastnn was committed 'for trial on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of James Blanche. NEW HOSPITAL AT GISBORNE. Gisborne, Saturday. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has decided to requisition local bodies for £BOOO as the first year's instalment of the expenditure on a new hospital costing £45,000. Tt is hoped to start the work in September and to complete it in 1913. BREAKING AND ENTERING. Gisborne, Saturday. Thomas Leonard Asten. alias Willie Wilson, pleaded guilty of breaking and entering a laborer's camp, and was"committed for sentence.