GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 36, 5 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SNOW PLOUGH IN THE SOUTH. By Telegraph—Press Association. ' , Timaru, Last Night. A Canadian snow'plough has been ported by the Mackenzie Ooumty Council "* and is reported to have done good work \ in clearing the roads after the late fall of snow. The smow still lies a foot " thick at Fairlie, but sunny farinas m clearing. q THE VANCOUVER SERVICE. 1 "J Auckland, Friday. The inauguration of the Vancouver service was celebrated by a luncheon on tihe Marama. Mr. Parr, Mayor of Auckland, remarked that this m a red-. " letter day, the inclusion of Auckland in - the All-Red route being a matter of gen- '' oral satisfaction to the Empire, New • Zealand,, and this portion particularly. . '*■ He congratulated the Union Companjy on its enterprise and pluck. Captain Morrie- * by said that, without boasting, New Zealand would have one of the ibest service* in the world. . TOE MISSING MASTERTON MAN. -Aj Masterton, Friday. 'I The efforts of the police to trace tile missing man, James Kingdon, so far J have been unsuccessful, though the 9 police have searched in places where tit* '9 body* if Kingdon is dead, would. been likely to have beeni found.lt »• rfl proposed to carry out a search of the whole town and district *f|| by a large body of residents on Sunday. sj§ MENTAL ASYLUM ATTENDANTS. Jf Wellington, Friday. fei A deputation of members of Parlia- '3 inent waited on the Minister of Public <: 'S Health to-day to bring under his aotke' '■M some matters in relation to mental hot- tl pifel attendants. It was urged by tike . deputation that the retiring age for superannuation, 65, was too high, tbat v! prison warders were better treated than asylum attendants, and that the work- ?jj ing hours were too long. The Minister s said that during the few years thai mental 'hospitals had been under his ■. control a good deal had been done to ' ffi reduce the working hours by' increasing *3 holidays and time off, further, in 1900, the salaries of male attendants had been . "".I increased. He wanted to reduce the ; hours, Ibut the figures put forward gave a wrong (impression of the hardship of the work. He promised to give the mat- ■'J ter careful consideration. '|v TEE ARAWAS AND LAKE ROTORUA. •>; Rotorua, Friday. . ; For some years past Waikato Natives , have been collecting money to said Home one oif their leading chiefs, Tupu Js Taingakawa, in order to make an appeal ' to the King with respect to the confl seated lands, as, according to the Treaty of Waitangi, they consider th» illegal. They have collected sufficient went to Wellington to interview Messrs. Bell and Skerrett, who advised him to postpone his visit to England until the case of the Rotorua Lake ownei« had. 1 been settled. As the result of the vuit " 11 ' of Tupu to Rotorua the case of the -■ Arawas against the Government for the possession of Lake Rotorua will shortly be ventilated in court. "j ' "-ff