GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 54, 22 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

AN APPEAL HUNG UP. By Telegraph—Press Association. fteefton, Saturday, The Consolidated group of companies, whom the Warden granted protection subject to appeal to the Arbitration Court within fourteen days, have lodged notice of appeal to the .Supreme Court for a re-!icaring on the grounds that the Warden had no jurisdiction to impose conditions. The Supreme Court will not sit at Greymouth till September. ami the matter will probably be hung up till then. AN UNCANCELLED WARRANT. Gisborne, Saturday. Confirmation having been obtained of a divorce against John Thomas Stone, arrested on a charge of wife desertion, he was discharged to-day. When the divorce was obtained the warrant for his arrest was not cancelled. INTO TIIIN AIR. Auckland, Saturday. investigation has exploded the Kingsland ghost sensation. In one instance,, the story originated in the difficulty oi a motorist dressed in a white I jacket, and in another from a perambulator hi the suburbs, and of the visiting Fijians dressed in white. BREAKING AND ENTERING. Wellington, Saturday. A young man, named Albert Stockbridge, arrested yesterday on a charge of being concerned in breaking and entering Cooper's premises on Thursday evening, was before the Court to-day and remanded till the 22nd . RIYER POLLUTION. Palmers ton X,. Saturday. Some alarm is felt in dairying circles as a result of the Chief Justice's decision re river pollution. A well-known butter dealer to-day declared that dairy factories are in the same boat as flaxmiils. If the affluent of (iaxniills cannot go into a river, what about ours? he asked. We must drain into the rivers. He believed most dairy factories druined into rivers, and as the Judge declared that it had been held that even water of a different character flowing into a river was pollution the effect oi the judgment might be serious. A LIBEL CASE. Wellington. Saturday. Judgment for defendant was given today by the Chief Justice in the libel ca.se lan Horace Simson versus the Hawke's Ray Tribune Company. Hastings, a motion for a new trial. ' ITis Honor was of opinion that it was not competent for the court to say a verdict of one farthing damages was against the weight of evidence. Defendant was allowed costs according to scale. Plaintiff was allowed the expenses of certain of his witnesses.