GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 168, 3 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

j j TERRITORIAL APPOINTMENTS. By Telegi-aph—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. The Prime Minister's attention Las been directed 1o a Masterton telegram reporting disnlisfaction among the Territorials over the fippointment of of- • ficers, who it is contended have no quali--11 fications for the positions except that - I their parents hold high social positions 51 and are supporters of the Pieform Party, t j Mr. Massey said that, as far as he knew, 1 i social position had nothing to do with any appointments made under the Ee- ■ form Government, either in the Defence > or any other department. He would, ■ however, see the Minister of Defence on 5 the subject. ) STOWAWAYS FINED. ' Wellington, Monday. •) Six stowa iv<- ,•< from Hobart by the I lonic were to-day fined £4 10s each, with the option of one month's imprison--1 ment. ! NEW CABLE LANDED. Wellington, Monday. The end of the new submarine cable from Sydney, via Doubtless Day, was landed by the cable-laying steamer Silj vertown at Takapuna Beach on Sunday. 1 1 F.M.S. DRAKE. 1 Wellington, Monday. H.M.S. Drake, the flagship, with Ad--1; miral King Hall, arrived from Picton this ' morning, and will remain here till the end of the week. " ,