GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 292, 4 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BANKRUPT IN TROUBLE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. At the Police Court Frank Albert Cooper pleaded guilty and wag committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on five charges of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, including contracting debts without reasonable expectations of being able to pay them, and not keeping proper books. Bankrupt was previously bankrupt in Wellington in 1908 and subsequently obtained his discharge there. LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Gore, Wednesday. The Mataura Ensign understands that the homestead block in the Longridge Estate, near Balfour, belonging to Campbell Bros., Geraldine, comprising 3300 acres, is under offer to the Government for closer settlement purposes, and that 1 a valuer has gone to inspect the area. AN OSBORNE CASE. Greymouth, Wednesday. _ Judgment has- been given by Mr. Justice Denniston in the case Osborne v. Greymouth Wharf Laborers' Union for .£1 and costs. X COMPLITNfa 22PM STATE - MINERS. ''' Greymo»tt, Wednesday. A riiass meeting of residents at the State collieries at Remanga and Dunoljy passed resolutions protesting against the slack time worked by the State mine during the last five months, and the accommodation conditions of the workers employed in the Point Elizabeth branch mine.