DOMINION NEWS.
ABRESTOF AN: DfCEEDIAEIST,
By- Tclcgraplt—Press Association Invercargill, Jan. fi.
Recently several fires have occurred in | unoccupied -buildings under circumstances suggesting incendiarism. On Saturday [William Lawrence, a youth employed as messenger by the brigade, was an-ested on a charge of setting fire to a house in Don Street. The polico stated that accused had admitted his guilt in connection with six fires. Ho was remanded till January 0,
DEFENCE OEETCE APPOINTMENTS.
Wellington, Jan. 6. Sir James Allen says that General Richardson is coming out to be officer in charge of the administration- This post was one of Lord Kitchener's recommendations, and was about to be filled when the war started. He is not coming to supervise demobilisation. As to General Robin's retirement and General Chaytor's rumored appointment, the Minister refused to saj> more than that there were several officers who might s>e considered.
CUSTOMS REVENUE.
Auckland, Jan. 6. The Customs revenue throughout iho Dominion for December totalled £230,311, beer duty beiilg £21,764, compared with £1,278,680 and £23,075 for the previous December.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19190107.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
172DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in