LATEST TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6996, 9 December 1909, Page 9

LATEST TELEGRAMS

PBESS. ASSOCIATION. ... AUCKLAND, December 8. | The. Auckland Cricket Association tonight passed a'resolution against the pooling system in financing the proposed New Zealand four of an Australian eleven. ■■- WANGANTJI, December 8. The Wanganui Cricket Association decided to agree to pay =£so and expenses for a match with tho Australians, and to take all the profits. NEW. PLYMOUTH, December 8. A man named Diax De-SUva was arrested last night on a chaffte of theft of five ladies' rings, valued at .£2O, from Noah Cohen, at Wellington, in October. He was brought before the Magistrate this morning and remanded to Wellington. «-' - BLENHEIM, December 8. Yesterday,. Mrs Scott Smith, iriie of the Masiitrate, and her daughter and servant partook of tinned fruit for •lunch Soon afterwards thev' became ill and. on a doptor beimr summoned, he stated that the three women wore suf T fering from stomach poisoning. The servant had to be removed to the hospital. The victims are better to-day and will probablv recover. CHRISTCHURCH. December 8. At a meeting of the Cbristchurch Tailoresses and' Pressors' Union it was resolved :." That this meetintr aT>u roves the principle wmpuisorv militarr trainro™ as contained in the Defence Bill before Parliament, but stoonsdv objects to the lone list of exemptions from service ip the Militia, and considers that the ' onlv oersons exenmt should bo sheriffs, constables, persons emolqved in schools, hosnitajs, prisons, lunatio asylums, and those medioa.il*- unfit. INVERCAKGHX, December 8.

A poll was taken to-day in the city and suburbs on the question of amalgamations into Greater Invercargill. .The' proposal .was carried in the. central borough and fire of the six suburbs. South InveTcargill alone negatived the proposal. The result is satisfactory in that it will give a compact workable area without South Invercargill. CHRTSTCHTJRCH, December 8.

The second coach from Otira to.Bro.ken River yesterday was delayed half an hour under exceptional circumstances. While the coach ivas at the top of Arthur's Pass. .3000 feet above the sea level, a passencer «ave birth to a child. The other passengers did all they could for the mother, and she and the infant were conveyed to the Bealey Hotel.