GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 3, 28 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

THE FOXTOX COLLISION'. J By Te'grrnpk.—-Frets The Court, held that the collision was <lui! to ii wrongful act on the part of Captain Manley, of tho Himitangi, in going to the wrong side of the cnaimel. The Court did not touch nis certificate, hut ordered him to pay the costs, £l4. PALMERSTOX ITEMS. Palmerston X., Last Night. The Manawatu A. and P. Association received one liundred and eleven applications .for its secretaryship. After three days' sitting, the finance committee reduced the applicants to three, one each in Auckland, ChristehiiTch, and Oainani. Owing to the refusal of the Sheffield Choir management to bring the orchestra here, the Holiday Association rescinded the holiday. The local Sheffield Choir executive represented by telegraph last night that failure to bring the orchestra would prejudically affect the receipts, and Dr. liarriss telegraphed (hat the orchestra would come with the choir. The Holiday Association has now grained a half-holiday. An egg circle was formed here to-night at a largely attended meeting of poultry men. The Ma nil Wat. n Trotting Club, which ihas a permit to hold a meeting hut lias no totalisatov license, has decided to hold it meeting in .Inly on the Aslihurst, course, one of those racing clubs the Racing Commission purpose closing. VICTORIA COLLEGE CAPPING. Wellington. Last Xight. The capping ceremony in connection with Victoria College took place this afternoon. degrees being conferred by Mr. ,0. llogbcn, M.A., Inspector -General of Schools, in the absence of Sir Robert Stout, the Chancellor of the New Zealand University Senate. Speeches were delivered bv His Excellency the Governor. Lord Islington, and Mr. C. Wilson, chairman of Victoria. College Council. The latter appealed for .C+OOO, needed for the work' of the college.