TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 4108, 8 December 1898, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland, December 7. Mr J. Wbiteley King, formerly connected with the New Zealand press, and now seoretary to the Pastoraliste' Union of New South Wales, is at present in Auckland. He comes to the colony to tbe opening of the Whiteley Memorial Church at New Plymouth, being a grandson of the murdered mwsionary in the massacre at the White Clifis. He leaves for New Plymouth to-tuorrow.

A number of women convicted of sly grog-selling in the city were fined £6 each, and the liquor found on the premises confiscated.

Wbllinoton, December 7: The Secretary to the Post Office has informed the Chamber of Commerce that it is the intention of the Government (subject to Parliamentary approval) to join with the other colonies hi guaranteeing four-ninths of the total cost of the construction and maintenance of the Pacific cable, New Zealand's guarantee in any case not to exceed one-eighth of the whole cost.

- Christchurch; December 7. The annual meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held to-day, when Mrs. Black, the first lady member, representing the Selwyn County Council, took her seat, and was put on the Charitable Aid Committee.

At Lyttelton today, G. Ayers, tbbaoconist, was fined £10 and costs for having a tobacco-cutting machine with out a warrant.

In the action Stokes v. the Canterbury Stevedoring Association, and the Union S.S. Co., claim £100 damages for injuries sustained through falling doWh a bunker hole on the steamer Tarawera, Mr Beetham, S.M., gave judgment for defendants, holding that plaintiff had no right on the steamer, and that all reasonable care had been taken.