GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 7, 3 July 1911, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ELECTORAL CENSUS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, Saturday. Work in connection with the electoral census which will he taken on July i) will he. commenced on Mondav next, when enrolment forms will 'he distributed to householders. This is the first occasion on which an electoral census has been held in tin; Dominion. It does away with the objectionable feature of canvassing for names for enrolment. DECEASED ESTATES. Wellington, .Saturday. The estates of 2oil deceased persons were certified for stamp duty during the month of June, the largest being that of Christina Chapman, of Dnnedin. £80.288. Taranaki estates were: -Matthew Carriole £025;;, Eliza M. King C334f>. Stanley IT. Stronge £2200, William K. Humphries £«< M. Jane Tippins ,£f>ru. A STORE ROBBED. Gishorne, Saturday. Brotherstone's store at Tokoniaru Bay has heen entered l)v burglars and £OO stolen. ADVANCE IX I'TiTCE OF BUTTER. Dnnedin, Saturday. Butter lias advanced one penny per pound from to-day. Wholesale prices now arc: Fresh prints, Is 2%d per lb; bulk Is 2'/,d. The rise is due to the shortage of hotter, vrfhioh is likclv to last till well on in August. ALLEGED LIBEL. .Masterton, Saturday Night. The Wairarapa Age Company has been served with a writ claiming £5Ol damages for alleged libel by one J. J. Kclliher, law clerk. The libel is alleged to have beon contained in a report of the meeting of the no-license party held last evening.