TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10293, 24 July 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association

RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES.

NELSON, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Connt yesterday, a youth named Peter Thomson was fine 4 £5 for failing to register under tho Defence Act. The father of the youth appeared, and urged his religious scruples, stating that he aJid his son. would leave the country.

NON-PAYMENT OF FINE.

GHIRISTCHURCH, Last Nght

F. R. Cooke, who wao recently imprisoned for failing to pay a fino, was arrested to-day, and committed to Lytteltori CJaol for non-payment of a. fine imposed in the .Magistrate's Court for a (breach of the city' bylaws.

THE COMING SESSION. CHRISTCHUROH, Last Night. The Hon. J. A. Millar, who pained (through yesterday on his way to Dunedin, informed an interviewer -that he anticipated that the approaching session would be a fairly sultry one. Tho House would, ho said, get on to ,business straight away. The Departmental reports were ready now, and would he presented early ia the session. The Minister indicated .that the Government 'were facing t"he coining election with confidence. His own opinion. was tlia>t Mr Masisey's party would ibe considerably weakened instead of strengthened.

LAKE COLERIDGE SCHEME.

CHRISTCHUROH, Last Night. Messre. Evans, Parry, and L. Birbs, the Government 'hydro-elec-trical engineers, yesterday visited Coleridge. Mr 'Parry expresses the opinion ithat power can ibe cheaply developed at the lake and delivered in. Oiristchurch. Regarding the market for the power here, into which he has been enquiring during the past two or three days, he states i® mtisfied^wifh- prospeot®. / x A MINER'S DEATH. DUNEDIN, Last Night. -At the -inquest on the .body of J. K. Walker, who was killed at Freeman'® coal mine on Friday night, a verdict of death accidentally caused by a fall of coal from the roof of the mine in. which deceased was working. The Jury added a rider, expressing the opikion that it would add to the safety of miners ii two men were ooup'fetf pillars. were being esr tr acted.