GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 173, 20 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

LIQUOR IN A NO-LICENSE ABBA. By Telegraph —Press Association. Masterton, Last Night. James Hall was fined £lO and costs or in default one month!s imprisonment at the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in a no-license district. The magistrate reserved his decision in a case in which a •imilar charge was preferred against Alexander C. Scrimgeour. REFORM PARTY RALLY. • Auckland, Last Night. The Reform Party's rally to be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday promises to be 1 the largest political gathering of the kind ever held in the Dominion., Sixteen members of Parliament at least will be present, the principal speaker being Mr. Massey. A very large number of tickets have already been issued, and demands for more'are coming from all parts of New Zealand. ALLEGED ILLEGAL OPERATION. Auckland, Last Night. At the Police Court t6-day Suhannah Hamblyn, charged with performing an illegal operation on September 4, was committed for trial. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £l5O and accused's own bond of £3OO. UNIVERSITY SENATE VACANCY. Chpistchurch, Last Night'. The result of the ballot taken recently by the electors on the register of the Canterbury district court of convocation for the position on the University Senate, rendered vacant by the death of, James Hay, is as follows:—James Hight 151,' Oscar Thorwald Johann Alpers 132, informal 3. Dr. Hight, professor of Economics and History at Canterbury College, is therefore elected. NAPIER-GISBORNB RAILWAY., ' . Napier, Last Night, It has: been definitely decided that the first sod of the Napier-Gisborne railway will be officially turned- .at the Napier . end towards the • close' of this month, probably oii the 29th. be attended by Sir Josfepti Ward'and the Hon. R. McKenzie. , . PUBLIC TO PAY. Dunedin, Thursday. The Star estimates, as an 'outcome of i the Shipping Conference, that payments to workers by shipowners will represent an annual expenditure equal to £150,000. In addition to the advances granted in the wharf laborers wages, cooks and stewards, and members of the Merchants', Service Guild also receive advances. The shipowners and the Seamen's Union are now engaged settling what increases are 1 to be given to firemen and' seamen. It is' rumoured that oversea shipowners are already taking /steps to increase inward freight rates by a shilling per ton. SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE. Hawera, Yesterday. At a well attended meeting last night it was decided to form a branch of the New Zealand Sports Protection League, and a local executive , was elected, comprising representatives of practically every branch of sport in existence in the district. PROCURING LIQUOR. Gore, Yesterday. Kenneth Mackav, for procuring liquor for sale in a no-license district, was fined £•SO and costs., I