GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 246, 7 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MISHAP TO A STEAMER. By Telegraph —Press Association. Dunedin, Thursday. The Union Company has received a wireless message advising that the Makura dropped her starboard screw, 1400 miles from Suva, but is steaming at fourteen knots on her port engines, and expects to arrive at Suva to-morrow afternoon, half a day late. She leaves for Auckland next Wednesday. ACTION AGAINST DRAINAGE BOARD. Palmerston North, Thursday. Judgment was given in an important case in the Supreme Court this morning by the Chief Justice. W. 33. and V. Pearce claimed from the Manawatu Drainage Board damages to the amount I of £SUO. They issued a writ to cause) certain drains to be properly cleared out and maintained, and also that the board should be restrained from keeping the drains so as to be a nuisance or injurious to them. His Honor came to the conclusion that plaintiffs had not made out a good claim, and found for defendants with costs. ARBITRATION COURT. Wellington, Thursday. In a reserved judgment to-day the Arbitration Court ruled that where a I new award in a particular trade did not refer to existing agreements or contracts I in regard to the employment of apprentices, such contracts having been entered into under previous awards, they must be deemed to remain unaffected and would continue for the term agreed upon as under the old award. LIQUOR TRAFFIC ASSAILED. Nelson, Thursday. Mrs. Cole, president of the W.C.T.U.. delivering an address, dealt at considerable length 011 the aims and objects of the organisation. Referring to the liquor traffic she said that the philanthropist and politician and to some extent the churches seemed satisfied to apply a lotion or poultice when the nation was suffering from a malignant growth needing the surgeon's knife. Members were urged to support the pledge campaign for the bare majority. In conclusion. Mrs. Cole said, "We light to protect all the nearest and dearest to us. I defy any man, be he publican or brewer, to dare sav that a mother has no right to fight for her own."