GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 140, 31 October 1912, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGINEER ASKED TO RESIGN. By Telegraph—Press Association, Timaru, Last Night.

The Timaru Borough Council last night, at the close of a long enquiry into the complaints regarding the borough engineer's department, resolved to ask the engineer to resign. Mr. Leed, in reply to the charges, said that these only referred to small details which, under pressure of important constructing work, he had been unable to attend to properly.

MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS.

Wellington, Last Night.

A public meeting to-night appointed a committee to go into the question of establishing a municipal golf links on the Town Belt.

WELLINGTON CITY ORGANIST.

Wellington, Last Night

The Royal Choral Society waited on the Finance Committee of the City Council to-day in reference to the position of the city organist, which is being vacated by Mr. Maughan Barnett, who is going to Auckland. Mr. Barnett is also conductor of the Royal Choral Society, and the Society now proposes that applications be invited in England from musicians, £4OO to be given as a salary .by the Council and £IOO by the Society committee in England to reduce the applications to three, the Society having the right to veto one of those three if desired, and the Council then to make a final selection.

TERRITORIALS' STRIKE ENDED. Bluff, Last Night.

The Territorials' strike has been amicably settled. The men attended tonight's parade in mufti and matters were thrashed out with the officers. Summons have been issued against six defaulter* to appear at the Court on Tuesday.