GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 15 December 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

NEW TOWN HALL OPENED. By Telegraph— Press Association. > Auckland, Last Night. Hi presence of about 3000 people, th« Auckland new Town Hall was opened by tshe Governor this afternoon. The ceremony was a briliant one. A ■week of festivities has been arranged in connection with the event. PRISONER CAPTURED. ■p , , Invercargill, Last Night. Jurnest Arthur Hamilton, the prisoner who escaped on Tuesday afternoon, was captured at ten o'clock to-night. No details are available. ROSS GOLDFIELDS. ... Wellington, Thursday. At a. meeting of the shareholders of the Ross Goldfields, Ltd., Dr. Knight, retiring chairman, stated that he 'only took office because he was appointed at i a meeting at which he was not present, and did not wish to damage the company m the eyes of the public by withdrawing. After discussion, the meeting . "solved to appoint directors to act unmoeti»g in January as follows;—W. R. Wilson (Auckland), C. itt v (A ] uokland )> H. M. Smyth (Hokatika), and G. F. Davis (Auckland), with a suggestion that a fifth director be appointed, preferably a Wellington man. I SINKING OF A LAUNCH, m. , , Gisborne, Thursday. use( l tendering the steamer To Araroa sank at her moorings this morning, and is likely to become a toit&l wreck. FARMERS' LAND AGENCY. ! nn m Hawera, Thursday. ; The Taranaki Executive of the Farmers Union to-day resolved to open a land agency busies® .to be known as the Taranaki Farmers' Union Land and Estate Agency." Mr. j. b. Sim provincial secretary, was appointed chief agent.