GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 7 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

A ROUGH PASSAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Thursday. The steamer Tomoana, which has arrived from New York, encountered a hurricane. Her decks were swept and her bulwarks smashed, and everything movable washed overboard. Otherwise no damage was done. THE LAW'S DELAYS. Auckland, Thursday. In accordance with the desire of the Dominion Conference held in Wellington, the secretary of the Auckland Drivers' Union waited on Mr. Justice Sim and protested against waiting nine months for the hearing of their dispute. Mr. Justice Sim promised to endeavor to have the case set down for hearing in Ohristchurch next month, or in Wellington .in August.

COOLIES IN FIJI. Auckland, Thursday. Sir Francis May, ex-Governor of Fiji, who was a passenger by the Marama, proceeding to Hong Kong, interviewed, discredited the reports concerning the effect of the unlimited importation of coolie labor in Fiji. He said that coolie labor was indispensable, and the best available for a tropical climate. The coolies were peaceable and industrious, and on the completion of their engagements became agriculturalists. The two races kept quite separate. The crimes committed by the coolies were mostly of a domestic character among themselves. They were ordinarily peaceable and industrious.

CADETS FOR CANADA. . Wellington, Thursday. Other cadets have been selected as follows: —Auckland: F. L. Beasley, F. R. Domigan, R. C. Chapman; Wellington, R. L. Garden, G. B. Brunton, and L. Ryan; Otago, R. S. Park, Alex Bracks, John J. Somerville, H. R. Comlees, H. G. Garruth, 0. S. Ellis, and G. J. McNaught. E. A. Porritt and E. R. P. Petrie are the names of cadets from Wellington provincial district to go to Canada.

FALSE PRETENCES. Waihi, Thursday. A young man, named Bertrul Hooper, alias Smith, a Waihi miner, was fined £lO, or two months' imprisonment, on a charge of false pretences. He went to Karangahake and collected money, representing himself to be an emissary from the Waihi Strike Committee.

PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES. Dunedin, Thursday. The Prime Minister informed a Star representative that the chairmanship of committees would be offered to Mr. T. H. Davey. As to the leadership of the Legislative Council, no one had been appointed so far. The position had been offered to one Dunedin member in that Chamber, who had not seen his way to accept it.