TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 22 December 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

A DUAL VOTER, Taihape, December 22. A uiaii named John Cairns was this morning charged boforo two Justices with dual voting. The evidence showed that tho accused voted at each of two booths at Taihapo at tho second TTallot. Accused, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial, bail being allowed of self iv £25 and two sureties of £50 each, ARRIVED B"i TUB MOOLTAN. lAuckland, December 21. Among the passengers arived by the Mooltau from. Sydney wero Sir AVm. Russell, Professor Gilnith, veterinary surgeon to the New Zealand Agricultural Department, 'also tin* member;-- of the- Now South Wales Totalisator Commission, who will torn New Zealand and report on the working of the machine. CHRISTMAS TRADE. Auckland,, December 21. Southern papers refer to the fad that most of tbo Main Trunk passenger holiday traffic is sot in in a steady stream towards Auckland. Tbo railway returns amply illustrate tho extent of tho inllux from upcountry. Special trains continually arrive," bringing in hundreds. The streets arc tilled with holidaymakers. Business people declare a record Christmas trade, and the hotels and boar dingho uses aro rapidly filling with visitors. BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE PAKKUA. Auckland, December 22. The Auckland Museum to-day secured possession of tho finest specimeiits of Maori carvings known to exist in New Zealand. There is undoubted authority to provo that these carvings arc genuine work, done before the days when tlie pakcha introduced the steel tools, as they aro traced back at between 1780 and 1800. Tho reason that little lias heretofore been known regarding thorn is that lor a century tho boadrs lav buried in the sand in a cave on tlio East Coast, to prevent them being stolen by tho raids of the dreaded Ngapuhi of tho north. The carvings in question are portions of a pataka, or food houso, and came originally from Whangapararoa, "just west of Cape Runaway on the East Coast;.