GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TIMARU ITEMS. By Telegraph.— Press Association. , Timaru, SaturdaV. Xne Mackenzie County Council has resolved to urge the Government to amend the Dog Registration Act, incieasmg the tax on dogs other than those used for sheep, cattle and rabbits, from 10s to 20s. Complaints were made as to sheep-worrying and the danger of the Hpread of hydatids. The same Council accepted a tender of X8!K) w . V- 10 t ' vcctiou of a Carnegie library in ®i, OUt of . a of £IOOO. * the. late rains art delaying the harvest, the ground being- too* soft to carry a reaper. Li most cases it is reported that gram m the stooks, throuoli the rain, is beginning to sprout, ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND. T1 m 11- Wellington, Saturday. The Wellington City Council met yesteiday afternoon specially to consider the Mayors motion to rescind the resolution granting permission to the Royal Artillery Band to charge for admission to the concert on Sunday, The motion was thrown out. BOOKMAKER FIXED. , ... , Auckland, Saturday. • Chatged with being a bookmaker, and I making a ,et on the Takapima raceX25 80 ' Ak ' kca ()lovcr IVtts U " wl TRAMS FOR PALMERSTOX. , Palmerston, Saturday. At a meeting of citizens last even'in", held for the purpose of discussing the insta latum of trams, the Edison storage buttery system was decided upon.