TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9115, Issue 9115, 11 January 1910, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Peb Phess Association.! OAMARU, Jan. 10. Stuart Walls, a former employee oi the Bank of New Zealand, pleaded guil tv to forging and uttering a cheque foi £100. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. NELSON, Jan. 10. The City Council has prepared a state ment from minute records showing thai the Health Department inspected the sewerage works nearly the whole time they were in progress, and paid ovei £300 for such inspection. It has beer ■decided to engage the services of Mi Hay. C.E., to investigate and report or the Department's report and the resident drainage engineer's reply. The Evening Mail issues from to-daj as a permanently enlarged eight page: sheet. GISBORNE, Jan. 10. For the first time in the history of the district exports from Poverty Bay foi 1909 amounted to over a million sterling The actual figures were £1,040,621. Ir 1908 the amount was £865,159, and 190 i just under the million. During the quar ter ending June 30, 1909, 27cwt of cheese valued at £70, the first exported foi maryy years, was sent out, and in tht quarter ending December 31, the firsi export of barley, namely. 6220 bushels valued at £700, was made. Captain Post, master of the Govern ment steamer Tutanekai, and Captair Sundstrum, of Dunedin, formerly mastei of the s.s. Invercargill, have been ap pointed assessors for the magisterial in quiry into the wreck of the Waikaro The hearing will take plage at Dunedir on Wednesday. WELLINGTON, Jan. 10. The Wellington Operative Bakers Union has resolved unanimously to dis affiliate from the Wellington Trades anc Labour Council. WANGANUI, Jan. 10. The ceremony of paying over the stakes in connection with the recent scul ling carnival took place at Wanganui last evening. After the winners had re ceived their money an enjoyable social hour was spent with toast, song, and story.