GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 202, 15 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ARRLSTED FOR FORGERY. By Telegraph-■ Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. 11. J. Richards was arrested on board the steamer Maungnnui at the Bluff, on Monday, charged with forging a cheque for U5 on a firm of solicitors at Martinborough. At the court to-day Rieharas was remanded to appear at .Martinborough on the 22nd inst. HEAT IN TIMARU. Tiniaru, Last Night. The hottest day of the season was experienced to-day. caused by a norwest wind, half a gale at times. Ninety degrees was recorded in the Post Office, with 95 in the shade outdoors. Much vegetation was withered and scorched. Two or three grass fires are reported, but no damage was done. One was in the back yard of a big drapery shop, and another threatened the railway bridge at Washdyke. Men were railed out. but the lire had been extinguished when they arrived. TRANSIT IN TIMARU. Timaru. Last Night. After much discussion in the press of various means of supplying the great need for facilities for getting about town -■tramways, trackless trams, and motorbuses—the Borough Council to-night, after a debate at a special meeting, resolved, by 10 to 2, to ask the ratepayers to sanction u loan for CfiOl.lo to instill motor-buses. The cost of trams was estimated at -CIOO.OOO. of trackless trains at Eli5,IHlO, including buying nut the present electric works, which would ■be useless if cheaper power were available from Lake Coleridge.