TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Mataura Ensign, 16 August 1906, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

I i)UNEDIN r , August l(i. The information laid by the Custon.s Department against Ernest •James Fenn, electrician, of making a false declaration under the Customs Act, was dismissed by Mr Widdowson, S.M., who based his decision on the late Judge Gillies' judgment in the case Radham v. Hill. NELSON, August Hi. Owing t<.i some misunderstanding the greater proportion of the twenty men employed at the preliminary operations in the Parapara iron works have struck and are returning to Nelson. They say the management engaged them at !)s per day, whereas the management stales that the rale was to Iw only Ss, except for four of the. men. It is expected that local labor at Collinirwood and Takaka will be available at &s, and that forty men will be. put on shortly. GREYMOUTH, August If. The New Zealand Poultry Association has decided to hold a duck egg laying competition on similar lines 'to tho hen-laying competitions in other places. CHRISTCHURCJT. August Hi. Mr G. T. Booth, of Christchurch, has been appointed as fourth Exhibition Commissioner. Sir John Hall and Messrs Recce and Mtinro being the others.