TELEGRAMS. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue LIII, 3 February 1908, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

".iPH. — COPYBIGHt.] (BY ELECTRIC !MlSOk. __

TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIPS. rPRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, February 1. At the University. Senate to-day the committee recommended' the insertion in the calendar of regulations relative to the Taranaki scholarships, which provided that one or more scholarships as funds admit be offered annually, and that scholarships shall be awarded on the results of the junior scholarship examinations, or such examinations as the Senate decides, no scholarship to be awarded unless credit in the examination is obtained. The scholarships are to be open to all candidates who have resided and attended a school within the district for not less than two years, and who are between the ages of sixteen and nineteen years, who have not been matriculated, and who have not carried on their studies at any college. Not more than one scholarship will be awarded in any one year to any school; each scholarship shall be tenable for three years and be of the annual value of £60. Any scholar may enter upon a course of study in medicine, engineering, mining, agriculture or veterinary science, or similar branches of applied science. The report was adopted. ANOTHER BATCH OF IMMIGRANTS WELLINGTON, February 1. Five hundred and seventy passengers arrived by the Corinthic from London, over 400 being third-class and mostly immigrants. There were several- cases of measles on board, and those affected have been quarantined on Somes Island. BOAT'S MACHINERY TAMPERED WITH. WELLINGTON, February 1. The machinery of the U.S.S. Company's Tuatea, which, conveys passengers fom the wharf to the intercolonial steamers, was tampered with last night.' The engineer on visiting the vessel found in the engine-room a fireman who had been discharged that day, and accused him of tampering with the machinery. The man said he was only looking for some olothes. Being ordered from the ship he refused to leave and struck the engineer. At four o'clock this morning it was found that emery powder had been poured on to the bearings, the sea-cock opened, and the dynamos put out of gear by the narts being saturated with oil. . At the Police Court James Campbell, the fireman referred to, was fined £2 for assaulting the engineer: He "pleaded e^uilty, but said he only went to get a towel, and was aggravated by the way he was spoken to. The engineer said the man knocked him senseless, knelt on his chest, and tried' to' throttle him. On a further charge of damaging the machinery of the boat the defendant was remanded.