GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 316, 4 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BREAKING AND ENTERING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Wednesday. At the Magistrate's Court this morning George Harris was charged with breaking, entering and stealing £9 from a dwelling at Wanganui, and remanded for a week. EAST COAST RAILWAYS. Rotorua, Wednesday. A conference of settlers' organisations from the Bay of Plenty and Rotorua districts passed a resolution urging the linking up of Rotorua with Paengaroa to give a railway outlet to a seaport at Tauranga. HOLSTEINS FROM MANITOBA. Auckland, Tuesday. The Union Company's steamer Makura, which arrived from Vancouver and way ports early this morning,, had eighteen head of Holstein pedigree cattle jon board. The animals were snipped at i Vancouver, and consigned to Mr. C. ißuckland, of Auckland. They were bred in the State of Manitoba, and are comjparatively young. | DRAINAGE REPORT. | Timaru, Tuesday. The Borough Council has received a. report on the drainage from Mr. Slinger, of Dunedin. It recommends discarding the septic tank, and providing a new outfall further from the town at Smithfield at a cost of from £SOOO to £OOOO. FORGER OWNS UP. Dunedin, Tuesday. At the Police Court this morning Thomas Docksey was charged with, at Port Chalmers, forging cheques on the Bank of Now Zealand at Auckland and issuing them to the wife of the licensee of an hotel where he was staying. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentenee. The police asked that accused should be committed to Lyttelton Gaol, where he was waiting sentence for similar offences committed at Timaru and Christchurch. He was committed to LytteJ.ton accordingly.

DISCOVERY OP OPALS, t Auckland, Tuesday. A valuable discovery of opals has been [made at Tainia, in" tho Thames district. The opal occurs in a sinter forjmation, which outcrop? a few miles bellow the gold mine area at Tainia, and I extensive prospecting operations are now ibeing carried out. Samples were brought Ito town this morning—masses of opal j encased in .lumps of the sinter formation —and if there is any groat quantity of similar opal on the field, a wonderfully rich future is in store. The opal is particularly line, full of fire, and flashing irridesecnt color with every movement A few specimens were submitted to an expert in gems in the city, and he at once pronounced them nV first-grade, superior to the opal which has "made Queensland faiaous.