GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 24 June 1904, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

iriißsa Asaoct\TiON* I MASTKHTOX, Tins Day. Theie is a boom in the plumbing business hen*. The School Comiui'teo lwis had considftable difllcuHy in gelling a gas nmin to tho school laid. The becrutuiy ! teieived only one ttudct alter beveral times interviewing all tho plumbum. WAXGANUI, This Day. At a meeting of the Wangauui Kduc.itional Institute resolutions weru pa.-^td placing on record us sense ol iho docp j !u^ of Ilic New ZiHiiiml 1-kUictttion liwti- j I«le suvtunicjj in the death of Mr. J. (J, I<. ScoU. of L'iuibt church ; that a telegram lie >cut to tin; Minister of Education cdngMUti'iiing him on 'his loHtoiatiuu to livnttli ; that tho Government be iibkcd to issuo to leather.* railway tickets at 'exclusion la-tw dining the ciureiuy of recognised Uolidayn ; thnt ibe Wiiriganui Distritt lu^iluve i" not in favour oi the .resolution of the Wellington Infinite in icg.ud lo mipsTannualuo, and is of opinion that an effort should be m.ido to !>«• ciuv .Nome bcuefitb for w idows aud children .John Hall was fined £10 at the Police Court on a charge of prociniug licjuor for a prohibited poison DUNI'IpIX. 23id June. The City Council i.s makinc; uppliciu lion for a v.aUr-r.'iee eight inik-w in Icnglh from D<n;i> t^ieam toxhoo Stream, to s-uiv pkni-nt tho power from L«e iStie.tm, lor gcr.'eratuig o.'cotricitj for trr.mwayt ana other purpose*. The race is ts«timaW>d to give ton heads of water and to co.st £6000. At the Police- (Joint today, a charge of having primed a paper relating to fiio iiihuiance without the name of tlio printer, was dismissed on the giound that tho proper person had not been charged. It was stated that, it had been believed hitherto that circular* did not retjuiro an imprint, but the Act was so comprehensive that this view was plainly wrong. Tho Harbour Boaul, after again discussing the matter of receiving and delivering cargo, decided to ;n:cepl none of i ho tenders sent in under tho conditions framed, but resolved to cull for tenders ior receiving and delivering, at per ton, tho conliartor to be < ic«poiis | ible ftn all cl«nn» from tin- time goods leavo tlie ship's sling* until deliveicd tothn consignee, the Board to retain the collection of all dues and all charges for (storage. TIMARU, This Day. The ITuihouT Hoard, at a meeting today, decided to submit a Kill at the ne\t sefNion of Parliament, bei'king authority to raiso a. further loan of £50,000, of which £30,000 i.s to complete the eastern mok>. aud tho balance for an additional vhavf. The Chairman said tho trade at tlio poit showed a gratifying increase in the shippinu' revenue for tho pa.nt si-c months, constituting a lecoid, and amounting t0'.G12.011 r i\.i compared with £10,398 for the ccnvspoiKling period UiM year.

"I saw some of the Mine bultt'V befoio leaving New Zealand eight and nino fnonths before I esamiiu'd it in Afiica." — Mr. KiiiKflhTh testimony to thi- methods of some of our butler produce)'-. Tin 1 cyelt> toad race airan^ed by Iho Duiilop Coiupany lor the purposo of selecting a riiier to lepie.sent Wellington in the twl. raio in Cuiiterbuty to decido New Zoalutid'tf, lcpii'Sfiitative at tho Warruanibool contest, will be run between .Johnwonvillo and I'ahaut.mui ty-moriow afleinoon starting at 2.15 o'clock. The cow so is about Unity miles 1 . 'Die following prizes hnvo been allotted : — l'\v.<d £3 3», second £?. 2s. thiid £1 Is, fouilh trophy valued at £1 Is. litth trophy valuod al 10s 6d. There will uKso ho prizes for tin- two fastest peiformunecs. Twenty-nine liders have cnlctcd, viz., fl. Tifinain, IT. Williams, Il'.I I . Gurney, .). Tot ley, Trevethick, Fl. L<\ (hnhain, .J. Wilkinson, ,7. (4. Wilkc*. S. U. Matteison, W. Rkollcy, lv. J. (Jhainiiin, I. Urailhwuite, J. IJonner, M. Ames, J. T. Suthciland, O. H. Mvithkc, A. M'Canison. V,. Cramp, G. Duirn, 11.I 1 . CVanip, J. T. Jonp.s, I/. Clotio, .J. U. llichards, It. G. Gray, A. W. Humphu-ys, H. Wolf, K. G. T'lck'e^, W. Gc-lio, and G, Uiadley. Hauiluaps have been h tuned by Mr. Ulii 1 iShaunoii. The limit will bo 15 miuuli*". Mi. A. Liimcusun will at! as (•tatt'.-r and tiniekoepci, M"sn«<. H. Thomua and 11. .1, Atkinson us ju'lgi'B, und M^i J B. MurDkv as lefcte*.