GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 325, 12 June 1911, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

I j i;r;.:;.i',AK:M=; .<t paiilvita. ', By Telegraph.—Press Association. Pahiatua, Saturday. Burglars arc at work at Paliintua. | Last night two hotels and two business places wore visited. The premises of Early, butcher, were entered, and an amount in notes and cash, estimated at £lO to £l2, was taken, and also three cheques of the total value of £4 or £5. Two cases of whisky are missing this morning from the storeroom of the Commercial Hotel. j THE EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION. J Timaru, Saturday Night, j Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Em- ( ploycrs' Association, last night addressed . a large gathering of employers on the great industrial problem. He argued that there was a great need for cleaner politics, but the Association could not ] and would not touch party politics. He had endeavored to remove misapprehensions regarding the proposed affiliation of the Farmers' Union. So far the Farmers' Union Executive and its branches' I were against affiliation. j

MISAPPROPRIATION. Timaru, Night. Charles Arty, an elderly man, who had been carrying on a cycle repair business in Christchurch under another name, was arrested there on a charge of misappropriation of £l3 10s in March, 1909, the property of C, W. Wood, cycle dealer, Timaru, for whom lie was a country agent. He pleaded guilty. On account of his age, a light penalty was imposed. He was ordered to pay the money in instalments of £2 monthly; in default of any payment, six months' imprisonment. CONTIGUOUS TELEPHONE SERVICE. Timaru, Saturday. The continuous telephone service, which has been going since the Ist in3t., is stated to have been made much use of, and there is some increase in the number of subscribers.