DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

, ATTEMPTED BURGLARIES. | By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taunrarunuj, July 8. As a result of the sky-over there are a number of undesirables visiting here, and there were two attempts at burglary last night before midnight. Constable McCallum saw a suspicious-looking man near the Farmers' Co-operative store. Seeing the policeman, the stranger walked away, and the constable afterwards examined the door of the store. He 1 found it had been opened with a jemmy, | but nothing was taken or disturbed. The I same night Lawler and Rice's, engineers, office was broken into, and a quantity of stamps stolen. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. Dunedin, July 6. Under the will of tb.e late Mr. George Gray Russell, who died in England last April, the following bequests were made: £2OOO, free of "duty to the Diocesan Trust Board, the income therefrom to be applied towards the payment of annual stipend; £SOO, free of duty, to the trustees of the Melaneaian Mission, to be used as an endowment fund to provide for the education of one Melaneaian child at Norfolk Island, or some other school in the Melanesian Island; £25,1 free of duty, to the Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Society. SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK LINE. Blenheim, July 8. The fin»t meeting of the South island Railway League, comprising a convention of all ioeal bodies in Marlborough, considered the best means of furthering and pushing forward the South Island Trunk line. A delegation from the Chamber > of Commerce attended. After full discussion it was decided to adjourn the meeting, pending the conference between the president of the league and of the Picton and. Marlborough Chambers of Commerce, to formnlate and bring down a set of 'proposals for a. combination of forces to push matters on.

DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS. Wellington, July 9. Brigadier-General C. W. Melville, and Brigadier-General R. Young, at present in England, have been called upon bv cable to return to New Zealand and take command of the.Wellington and Canterbury Military Districts, respectively.

A TAIHAPE SENSATION. Taihape, July 8. Somewhat of S sensation was caused by the arrest to-day of a young man named Carter, charged with being a deserter from H.M. forces. He is a man of gentlemanly and prepossessing appearance, and claimed to be an officer in a crack British regiment and a graduate of Baliol College. He was employed as a clerir in the meat works at fWiniata, and moved in the best society here, and was, a reader in the local Anglican Chorcn. Carter is i man of undoubted intellectual attal» ments and considerable personal nharm. He was taken to-Palmerston dealt with by tha-unitary.