TELEGRAPHIC

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4313, 23 March 1901, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC

PHES3 ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, March 22. Captain Marks, of tho s.s. Rimu, was finocl £5 for putiug to sea from Timaru on February sth with an insufficient crew,. Defendant pleaded, that two of his men went ashore shortly before tho time of leaving and got drunk, and ha was unable to got other men to replace them. The Stipendiary Magistrate admitted these were extenuating circumstances, but defendant ought to have got the police to put the men aboard. NEV 7 PLYMOUTH, March 22. The agitation against toll gates in Taranaki county has reached an acute •stage. Information has been received that at Puniho the gatekeeper was locked in his house while several persons carried off tho gate, which has not yet ; been found. It is reported that another gate at Heimama was similarly treated. This extreme step has been taken in view of tho impending sale of ’ the right to collect tolls for the year ’commencing in April.

AUCKLAND, March 22. : _ Mr Coleridge Farr, who left for Weljilington yesterday, has been taking mag. luetic observations with a view to imllprove the magnetic charts of the south: jjerh hemisphere. |j Tho illicit still case at Coromandel jhasi been adjourned till Tuesday. The jthree accused wore liberated on bail in' itwo bonds of £SO each and £IOO each. I The City and Borough Councils pr> jboth sides of the harbour are taking coition to control the ferry service under jthe powers conferred by the new Municipal Corporations Act. A conference jmet, to-day and resolved to recommend the incoming Councils to ; appoint a provisional committee to frame hy-laws for ; the regulation of the ferry service. | In the case of a youth named Miller, ,who died sudenly at Parnell yesterday, the post-mortem showed that the hibernal organs were perfectly healthy. ;An analysis of the contents of the istomach is to be made. . —..., i The Rev Meinata To Hara; a-natire ’Church of England minister. was taken ill at Kaitaia anddied.in a-few.,min-utes, it is, supposed from heart disease. :- - - <'••••>• - • THAMES,- March 22. A feeling is prevalent that the threat to cite all the mining companies oh >t!io peninsula as well as the Waihi Company before Board - will injure the industry it carried, out. ' .. WANGANUI,' March 22: Owing, presumably,; to a mistake,- in telegraphing, it,,has been made to appear that tneWanganui;Garrison Band ;won at tho recent contest by only two points. It - should, have 'been by 32 points.. ■: ' DUNEDIN, March 22. There has been an unusual rush of business at the Magistrate’s Court during the pastT*few_ months. During last quarter 846 summonses went through tho Court. Arrears of calls in dredging companies is probably responsible for the large increase. *" HAWERA, March 22., At a representative meeting of dairy factories in Southern Taranaki, a company to be called the West Coast Refrigerating Company, Limited;was formed, with a capital of £25,000, for the purpose of freezing and storing produce at Patea and elsewhere., Provisional directors were appointed. .The promises of, support to the company were substantial.-, ' ■■ ■ ■ y i