GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1902, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 -HAWERA, 10th December. The recount of the papers in connection with the election for the Hawera seat increases Mr. Major's majority to 35. ■ , Leslie, licensee .of the Shamrock Hotel, was to-day fined 40s and had his license endorsed for selling liquor on a Sunday. The liquor was- "shouted" by a lodger, but the Stipendiary Magistrate held that those treated were nob ab initio guests. The fine was increased to £5 Is to allow ot an appeal. A case against Hook, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, on a similar charge^was dismissed, the Magistrate exercising discretionary power under section 87 of the Justice of the Peace Act, on the grounds that the house was exceptionally well conducted and the licensee's wife was induced to supply the liquor through the truculent demeanour of the persons who demanded it. CHRISTCHURCH, 10th December. A meeting of auctioneers and butchers decided to establish an "insurance fund to compensate for beasts condemned under the Government regulations. Vendor and buyer will each contribute Is per head for each animal sold and bought in the fat pens at Addingtpn, and the buyer of the condemned animal will be entitled to receive the difference between the amoimt paid and the Government compensation. Aged cows will not be insured. An expert will be appointed, with power to disallow insurance on any particular animal' before sale. INVERCARGILL,' 10th December. ' At the second day of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Show fully ten thousand people were on the ground. A. Howe won for the first year a twentyguinea cup for most points in frozen meat classes, and the Castle Rock estate gained specials for most points and entries in sheep of exhibitors' own breeding. Mr. David Syme, proprietor of the Melbourne Age, was amongst the visitors at the show to-day.' I ASHBURTON, This Day. The Mount Somers Coal Company has struck a new seam of coal 6ft 6in thick, winch is estimated to yield over a hundred thousrnd tons of coal. Indications point to other seams below the present ones, which the company intend exploiting. L NELSON, This Day. A poll of burgesses was taken yesterday on the issue whether or not a portion of Trafalgar-street North should be ottered to the Government as a site for a new Post Office on the condition already agreed to that the owners of adjoining land would dedicate to the City Council a street a, chain wide on either side of the proposed site. Considerable interestwas taken in the polling, and 1342 out of 2054 on the poll voted, the. majority in favour of giving the street site being 318. At the. Harbour Board's meeting .yesterday, it was resolved' to accept the offer

of the Government tug-bpat Gordon, now ! at Port Chalmers. The Board declined to agree to the drainage plans forwarded by tne City Council, considering that it was unable to consent to airy drainageeffluent emptying into the harbour, unless conveyed by sealed pipes into deep water below low-water mark. AUCKLAND, This Day. A fire at Epsom destroyed the grain stores of Messrs. Crowther and Probert, and a large stock. The building, which was owned by Mr. Edgerley, was insured in the Royal office for £250, the stock for £100 in the Sun, and the machinery for £200 in the Phoenix.