GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 171, 6 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BOOTH MEMORIAL FUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dannevirkc, Thursday

Mr. Q. Hunter, M.P., for Wairariipa. has opened >he Booth Memorial Fund in this district with a donation of £IOO. FORESTERS' CONFERENCE. Masterton,- Last J'Jight. The triennial Forsters* Conference concluded to-day. A proposal to reduce the amount of funeral money was lost by a big majority. A proposal to increase contributions was also lost. It was decided to appoint a qualified auditor for the district, the old system of court auditors being abolished. The proposal to hold an annual conference was defeated. The next conference will be held at Wanganui. GAOL ESCAPEES.

Invercargill, Last Night.

David Millar and Stewart Good, who attempted to escape from gaol a: week ago, were before the Magistrate to-day. Millar, who was described as the leader of the affair, was sentenced to twelve, months' hard labor, and Good to six months' hard labor. ACTION FOR LIBEL.

Timaru, Last Night. The Supreme Court sat all day over a libel action, in which Dr. H. C. Barclay, of Waimate, claims £SOO damages from the Waimate Workers' Union and its president, John Smith, for a reflection on >his, professional character in a resolution passed by the Union. Plaintiff's case was not completed.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Timaru, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court a drover of Gore, named George Russell, was charged with cruelty to animals by railing from Southland to Ashburton ewes on the point of lambing. Some lambs were born in the trucks, and several ewes and lambs arrived dead. Others were in a bad condition. Sub-inspector Cruickshank, in prosecuting, regretted that those really responsible could not be brought before the Court, as defendant was only engaged to look after the sheep on the journey. He. however, had. not done all he might have done on the journey. Defendant pleaded that there were no facilities, and he had done what he could till the train divided at Balchitha. The Bench regretted that the other parties were not chargeable, and fined defendant £1 and costs. The evidence indicated that the ewes were supposed to lamb in October, and the journey was made early in September.