NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 2 December 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

BY TEIiEfIBAPII I'BKSS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND SHOW. AUCKLAND. December 1. Fine weather t prevailed for the continuation of the Auckland show yesterday, the attendance constituting a record. The principal additional, awards are:—Champion cow, E. D. McLennan's Buttercup; cow three years old or over, any 'breed, in; milk, E. D. McLennan's Buttercup 1, E. D..McLennan's Darkie 2, J. E. Gaverny's Rosella 3; V\m. Tapp's Cherry Red vhc; cow under, three years, any breed, in milk, Win. M. Tapp's Marigold 11. 1, W. J. Hall'sNellie 2; best type of dry dairy cow three years old or over, guaranteed in calf. W. J. Hall's Empress 1, Mrs "R. Archibald's Polly 2; pen of three Shorthorn heifers, calved since July, 1905, suitable for dairy purposes, bred by the exhibitor, Wm. Taylor 1, Geo. Winstone 2. The chief ring competitions resulted as follows:—High jump, D„ Gorrie's Skipper, sft, 1; champion; lady rider, Miss West; bare-back: competition, Miss Ethel Abbott;, gentleman rider, W. Lines TaylorTARANAKI OIL INDUSTRY. BLOW-UP AT BIRTHDAY WELL. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 1. At the annual meeting of the Taranaki Oil and Freehold Company the manager stated that the bore was, now down 254 feet. He had had an excellent show of oil that afternoon, but that did not betoken anything at present. Much -more rapid progress is naw being made. A great blow-up occurred in the Birthday Well at the petroleum, works, this morning, a mixture of oil, papa and water being thrown above the top of the derrick and carried across the road on to the butter trucks in the freezing works siding. Two or three minor blow-ups occurred during the week, and these are regarded as an excellent indication/ ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF A PRISONER. CHRISTCHURCH/November 30. A prisoner named Archibald Campbell McKenna, undergoing four years' imprisonment, escaped from the Hanmer prison, last evening, but was recaptured to-day. PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. AN IMI 0 -xTANT MODIFICATION. BLENHEIM, November 30. A modified form of preference to unionists is incorporated in an award given by the Arbitration Court. An employer must be? caused no unreasonable delay in fulfilling the preference requirements, i.e., men must be offering on a job or non-unionists may be taken. WORKING ON A SUNDAY. A NUMBER OF CHINESE FINED. ________ » AUCKLAND, November 30. Mr Kettle, S.M., gave his reserved judgment in the casein which a number of Chinese gardeners were prosecuted for working at their ordinary avocations on Sunday. He said that, after a long spell of wet weather, the conditions improved, on the Saturday night, and the Chinese considered it necessary, for the safety of their crop, to get it in on Sunday. In the special circumstances the work was reasonably necessary, but the preparation of vegetables for sale could have been done on Monday. Those defendants who gathered and prepared vegetables on Sunday in full view of the public highway were fined 5s each and costs, but the charges against those engaged in saving the potato crop were dismissed.

DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT.

DUNEDIN, November SO. At the Supreme Court, William Patrick Harrington, found guilty of receiving property stolen from the Mutual Stores, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. John Robertson, for failing .to keep proper books, was senten:ed to a month's imprisonment, and is to be treated as a first-class prisoner. Edward Many, on a charge of arson, received a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. Smart was found guilty of the theft of £l4 from the State Fire Department, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour.