GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

BREACH OF ELECTORAL ACT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hawera, "May 11. In the Magistrate's Court, Richard Wright was.lined £5 for having signed a false declaration under the Legislative Act. Defendant, who was on the Egniont roll, voted at Normanby, in the Paten electoral district, on general election day, and signed a declaration that his name did not appear on.any other roll. WESTPORT HARBOR. Wcstport, Last Night. 'Messrs. J. H. Greenwood and Hollen were to-day unanimously reappointed chairman and deputy-chairman respectively of the Wcstport Harbor Board. On the recommendation of its engineer, Mr. C. N. Boult, the board adopted a works policy extending over six years of a total estimated expenditure of £269,000. LIQUOR IN NO-LICENSE AREA. Dnnedin, Last Night. At Balclutha to-day, before Mr. 11. A. Young, S.M., Ben Wise was convicted on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in a no-license district, and was fined £25, with costs 7s.

NEW RAILWAY ENGINES. Auckland, Last Night. The ten first-class Baldwin railway locomotives which were ordered by the New Zealand Government in January last from Messrs. Barnham, Williams and Co., of Philadelphia, are on board the steamer Invertav, which arrived at Auckland last week, and which continued her voyage to Wellington to-day. The contract for the manufacture ol the engines the Minister for Railways, the Hon. W. If. Herries, pointed out today, was completed within the stipulated time, but their arrival in the Dominion was delayed, in the first place, owing to delay in obtaining shipping space and by the protracted voyage of the Invertay. The engines will be fitted up at the Petone Railway Workshops under the superintendence of an expert, who has been sent out by the manufacturers for the purpose, and wlio arrived in New Zealand some weeks ago. Tne engines, wheh are costng £3-229 each, will be distributed throughout the .North Island lines as circumstances require. A '.PROBLEM FOR THE GOVERNMENT. Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland Automobile Association is asking the Government what its intentions are with regard to the assets of the Continental Tyre Company, the affairs of which are now being administered by the Government. The association says it makes large purchases of tyres, hut does not want to support any German institution, and does not 'propose to buy Contnental tyres if the money so obtained is to be kept in trust and handed over to the Germans after the war.

CLOSING A WIRELESS STATION. Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland wireless station 011 the top of the Auckland Pos Office has been closed down, as the authorities consider that the powerful station at 'Awanui, in the North of Auckland, which is in direct telegraphic and telephonic communication with Auckland, is sufficient for all radio purposes here. The Auckland instruments are not to be dismantled for the present.