TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10167, 17 February 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph — Press Association.

TAILORESSES' AWARJ. - WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, the Te Aro House Company was charged by the Inspector, of Factories with a breach of the Tailoresses' Award by permitting work to be ) doiie off the premises. The Company admitted the offence, but stated in extenuation', that they had boen left . short-haudsd at a time when it was i necessary to fulfil orders with the - greatest expedition. A penalty of > £2 was imposed. 1 ATHLETFS FOR FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. [ CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. p ' .. Sir Joseph Ward informed a re- , porter" to-day (that the Government had decided to give a subsidy of ■• pound Tfor pound up to £SOO to send the champion athletes to the Festik Empire, in accordance with a request recently made to him by several athletic bodies. Mr Walter , Johnston, secretary of the New Zea- . land Swimming Association, one of the bodies interested-, when informed o!. the. Government's decision, said he 'felt that the offer was a; very, lib-.era,i-one, and- was • completely satisfactory. .It was hoped that the sum" of £250 would be raided privately, and that the Government subsidy of the same sum would enable four representatives—three .athletes and one : swimmer—'to be sent from New' Zealand. ' • THE WANGANUI RIVER. '.. -;> ;.:■ WANGANUI, Last.Night.;;: ,v the exceptionally dry seaI in the Wanganui'River > ; than at .any time / inception of the River Trust, when the River Steamer Service was established. A zero mark was fixed at Pipiriki as denoting the lowest depth at which it was,reasonable to expect a steamer to reach Pipiriki. To-day the water is 42 inches below that zero mark, yet owing to the improvements made in the river, steamers are going to Taumarumii, a total of 144 miles. THE LORD HAWKE COP. r ■■'■.. : ;;;;\.';WANGANUI,' Last Night.;, _ The cricket matoh between Rangitikei and South Taranaki was continued;this morning. Rangitikei won by an itfnings and 13 runs. . r who shall meet Southland in the final for the Hawke >l ■:' • " '. " -'..-. .•• ■'■'•. : ' A LIBEL ACTION. .CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. ; The hearing was concluded at the Supreme'; Court "to-day, of an action in which Alexander Storrie Duncan, chairman of directors of the firm of Cooper and Duncan, Ltd., claimed from Frank ; Cooper, ; until v recently .general ;' manager. of the ? company, £10$) damages for alleged'libel .of ■;the. plaintiff; It is clamed-that the, libellous; statements were published in a' letter Issued to .the share-; holders ofjthe.company ; '%\thia-:'aefetid[i'.j ant who summarised his accusation in i the* statement charged the plaintiff with having subordinated the interests of the company to '.hits own concerns, and havingimade use of his position as* chairman of directors . to further "his own business at the expense of the company. After three and a quarter hours' retirement the jury a verdict for ■plain-' • tiff, the amount of dam--the lowestxscalfc, with witnesses expenses/iand rdisfiursemehts, "£7 7s/for „the ; second *day. His Honor gave < if necessary to defendant to more for judgment on ihe ground that plaintiff should,be non-suited or judgment given for defendant. .".'•:,■■ OPENING OF STALKING SEASON. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Right. Hon. the Prime Minister (Sir J. G. Ward) was waited on .this morning on behalf of;the deer.stalk-. ers,whO"goto the North Otago disr tricts, and it was pointed out to /him that no date had been fixed for the opening of the season, owing to the . diffei*ences of opinion between the stalkers and two Acclimatisation Societies interested. On the position being explained to Sir Joseph, he stated that he would send a telegram to the Minister of Internal Affairs asking him to fix April Ist, the usual date, for the opening of the season.