GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 94, 6 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

NAPIER FINANCES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Yesterday. A financial statement presented to the Napier Borough Council showed that, despite large loan undertakings, the rates since 1908 had only increased by 5%d The statement has* been issued' in response to complaints of the unbusinesslike methods of the Council AN ANTI-MILITARIST EXPLOIT. Ohristchurch, Yesterday Recently, local anti-militarists- 'invited the City Council to r.-ii-ove from public gaze the pompom raptured in the Boer War The gun is displayed in Victoria Square, where it is feed with bolts to a concrete bed. The Council did not take ad ion. Dnvin« last night the gun Wi ,s removed f its position and thrown into the River Avon. THE WAIITT STRIKE. Auckland, Yesterday. Pen police arrived from Wellington this morning, and proceeded to Waihi making thirty police at Waihi and Wailnno. Christehureh, Yesterday After ;, hearing lading throe davs the.jury found a .verdict for plaintiff for in the cafic in which the D.I.C. sued the Bank of Australia for damage caused through water leakiivr into plaintiff's cellar. The evidence was chiefly that of architect", "mnnecrs builders, geologists and othc<- experts' The point at issue was whether the water came from defendants' artesian well or was natural .subsoil water