GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 24 May 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

A KAURI "DRIVE." By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Last Night. It is estimated that in the recent drives of kauri logs timber of the value of £(>0,000 reached the booms. ALLEGED CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. Christehurch, Last Night. Mary Brown, single, aged 84, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with concealment of birth and remanded on bail. The case was concerned with the finding of the body of an infant in the river Avon a week ago. AN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. Palmerston N., Last Night. At a meeting held this afternoon, it was decided to form an automobile association for the West Coast, and, if possible, amalgamate with the Feilding Association, so as to form one strong body to cover the whole district west ol the central range. The meeting was called at the suggestion of the Hawke's Bay Associ'ation.

ELECTRIC TOWER SOURCE. Palmerston X., Last Night. Mr. Nelson, of Hawke's Bay, is to address the Palmerston Chamber of Commerce and local bodies on Wuikaremoana as a power source for the Mannwatu, Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay districts. £SOOO CLAIMED FOR ALLEGED LIJ3EL. Napier, May 22. Mr. H. Lan Simson, who was a candidate at the last general election for the Hawke's Bay seat, and has announced his intention of standing for the same seat next December, has instructed his solicitors, Messrs. Kennedy, Lusk, and Morling, to issue a wril claiming £SOOO damages against the Hastings Tribune and Mr. George Nelson, writer of a letter which appeared in Saturday's paper, and which contains certain alleged libellous statements affecting Mr. Simson's social and political standing. If the case goes to the Cpurt it will prove more than usually interesting.