TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3022, 17 August 1916, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

TrioH γ-kkss association.] PAIMATUA'S ELECTION. Puhiatua. August IG. The election to-morrow is not causiii!4 much excitement. The three candidates report go<> I meetings. .Labour members have visited the electorate and Labour literature has also been circulated freely. DEFAULTING TERRITORIALS. Mr. Hewitt, S.M., imposed substantial penalties on defaulting Territorial in the Pahiatua Court. Two civil servants who never attended drill were fined £5 and £3 respectively. A farm hand who had been previously convicted was fined £2. The Magistrate said that it was not fair to those doing their duty that others should escape. NO SLANDER.

Wellington.. August IC. Joseph Lewis, lion, secretary oi" the Wellington Patriotic Society, sued Stanley FI. Homer (manager for Begg

and Co.) for £501-damages for alleged slander, contained in the statement: "There is some dirty work being carried on by the committee of the Patriotic Society and your name is not too clean in it." (The reference was to tho purchase of a set of band instruments from the Bristol Pi:)no Co.)

The case cxrited considerable interest, and lengthy evidence was given. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, the Judge remarking that the result of the trial dH not cast nny imputation on plaintiff or the Patriotic Society. THAT WAR BONUS. Wellington. August IC.

Questioned by a reporter as to the method to be adopted in regard to the payment of the war bonus to public servants, n subfeet which is arousing a good deal of interest in Public Service circles just now, the Minister for Finance stilted that the matter will come up for final settlement at a Cabinet meeting on Sattirdav next, nnd that an announcement will be made as scion as possible.

A PRISONER IX TURKEY

"Wangaiuii

August 17

A Waiiganni lad who is ;i prisoner of'war in Turkey, complains that while Austrsilitms and "Tommies" are rccoiviiisj moneys from their home hinds, New Zealanders are only getting money distributed by the American Embassy.