LATE TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 6

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] CARTERTON, This Day. The Cartcrton Chamber of Commeice was inaugurated last night. Mr. Coleman Phillips was elected Chairman. The first business discussed was the question of assisting the establishment of a, dairy factory at Gladstone. A howling southerly gale, accompanied by rain and hail, is raging. The telegraph wires are down. Five informations under the new Licensing Act for being illegally on licensed premises on Sunday are being heard today. There are two other cases of supplying liquor to youths under 18 years. GISBORNE, This Day. The Holiday Association, comprising the leading shopkeepers, is promoting a petition to have the early closing hours of the Shops and Offices Act enforced in Gisborne. WANGANUI, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Colonel Sommerville obtained £10 damagts from the Borough Council on account of an accident to a trap and occupants, caused through the negligence of the borough workmen in not properly filling in a trench in a road in which gasmains had been laid. The wheels of the trap went in the hole, and the vehicle collapsed. DANNEVIRKE, 6th December. The Black family of musicians, while touring the back blocks last week, had an unusual experience. Near Pongaroa, bullocks had to be substituted for horses owing to ' the impassable state of the roads, and at one part the coach capsized over a bank. Fortunately no one was inside. ELTHAM, 6th December. A cable message received states that E. R. Terry (the world's champion axeman), A. Clark, J. Deegan, and G. A. Goold (champion sawyer) leave Tasmania on Friday for New Zealand to represent the Commonwealth at the New Zealand Axemen's Carnival, to be held on the 26th and 27th December. Blanc, Cheliis, and M'Carthy were unable to obtain the. necessary leave. (From Our Own Correspondent.) EKATAHUNA, This Day. Mr. Leslie Rejmolds has submitted three alternative proposals for a water and drainage scheme for Eketahuna. It is probable that a poll of ratepayers will be taken at- an early date. The Eketahuna School Committee has protested against the proposal of the Wellington Education Board to include Labour Day in the list of school holidays.