GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 320, 9 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

PASSIVE RESISTERS FINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. A batch of passive registers, chiefly from the mining districts around Huntly, were before Mr. Loughuan, S.M., to-day, charged with failing to attend camp.' Many excuses were made, without avail, and penalties were inflicted ranging: from £2 or two months' imprisonment to a few shillings. THE SOULTORTA MYSTERY. ' Hamilton, Last Night. In connection with the theft of the racehorse Soultoria, Detective Hawkes and Constable Lander arrested a man, about thirty-five years of age, named Patrick MacManemin on the Ilautuni road, Waitomo, yesterday. MacManemin was brought to Hamilton this afternoon i for identification by a woman who saw a man leading the stolen horse through Whatawhata, the morning after the theft. LAND FOR SETTLEMENT, Timaru, Last Night. Advice has ben received that the Government has purchased _ishwick station, near Kimbell, Fairlie, of 5500 agricultural aeres and 2900 pastoral acres of land for settlement, to open next March. ELECTRIC LIGHTING. Timaru, Last Night. The Borough Council to-night received two solicitors' opinions that they are free to make terms for electrical supply from Lake Coleridge for tramways, and are not prevented from doing so, as some supposed, by the contract current with Scott Bros.'for street light and private i coHSumption.