GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Saturday. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce yester- .y day resolved to communicate with he Bailway Department, with a view to securing a through goods' train to Invercargill, so that goods forwarded from Dunedin might be delivered more promptly. , Invercargill, Saturday. A return laid before the' County Council to-day showed that during the twelve months ended March 31 last £1024 odd -' ~ was spent in exterminating small birds. ;.", *. Of this, £778 odd was paid for 1,121,023 j . • ; eggs and heads. The council approved of . the model by-laws, as submitted by | the Minister for Public Works, with a slight'-, ; alteration.
Dunedin, Saturday. Drought has continued since the beginning of the year, less than Sin of rain having fallen in that time. The Outlook's China famine relief fund.,-;-, has reached £1084. The amount remitted -. to date is £900.
Wellington', Saturday. _ The acquisition of the Gas Company.! $M works by the City Corporation will be in* , troduced at the next meeting of the City.. . y Council. . .- ■■■■; At a meeting of the Trades' Council to- .J" day a hope was expressed that next session . amended legislation would be introduced r -*f j to bring the Chinese laundries under to® \ V Factory Act, much on the lines of the law' j existing in Western Australia. • f Chiustch i'rch, Saturday. ,J j Tiie list of cas«i set down for hearing j at the Criminal Sessions of tho Supreme | Court, opening on Monday, comprises | charges against 12 persons of abduction, ,| perjury, wounding with intent, indecent ■ tfj a.-.-anlt (2), ; assault and robbery (3), mall- j-k slaughter (2), theft and attempted murder. Tihaku, Saturday. --.y The Timaiii Harbour Board, at a special yesterday, decided to call tenders for the erection of an additional 650 feet of | wharfage. This will provide accommodation |p| for two more vessels than can be berthed J at present. y ; '.' :fs|pp|
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 6
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