GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 241, 20 March 1915, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SUSPECTED OF OPIUM SMUGGLING. Wellington, March 18. Two Chinamen were detained on the wharf this evening by a Custom officer and taken to the police station, where a search revealed a number of tins supposed to obntuin opium concealed in j their clothing. Charges of attempted emuggling will be brought against tliem tu-Uiorro»»'. x FISHERMEN RETURN SAJTELY. Wellington, Last Night. ! Two men, Nelson and Sutton, who left Wairau bar last wee.k for Wollington in a fishing boat and were not reported yesterday, -readied town to-day. They ran out of engine oil and were blown up the coast, landing at White Rocks station, near Cape Palliser, whence tlioy same overland. THE WELLINGTON PATENT SLIP. Wellington, March 10. The Minister of Marine, the Hon W. IT. Herries, is just noiv acting in an unusual rapacity as arbitrate in a dispute wliixjß has been going on for some years between the Harbor Board and the Patent Slip Company, as to whether another slip should be laid down. The law provides in cm.- of disagreement that the. Minister should act as arbitrator, and things have arrived at such a, pitch that at last- he has been called in, and is now hearing argument and evidence. THE HEATHEN CHINEE. ' Dunedin, March 10. ' Four Chi.tiamcH were charged at the Police Court this morning with working at their calling on I inday. Mi' Midler. -TP., said most of the men who ■ came before the court name for not working. The practice of working on Sunday offended churchgoers, and must ihe iliscontinmstl, Fines of 20s and costs wer« imposed. A SOLDIER IN TROUBLE. Napier, March 10. ' James Plowman, a member of the Expeditionary Force, was before the court, charged with disorderly behaviour in the. train and using obscene language. Evidence; went to show that accused was a passenger on the express train from Wellington, and, whilst under the inflnenec of liquor, assailed various other passenger?, declaring them German spies, and threatening thoin with the ba.Minet. He plcadeij guilty, and was remanded for sentence, bail being refused. ALLEGED SHOOTING AT WOMAN. Auckland, March 10. | John Barry, aged 40, was arrested [ on a charge of having fired a revolver at a widow named Mrs Jessie, Drys- ' dale in Queen Street. The woman was not struck by the bullet.