TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8893, 21 September 1905, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Peb Peess Association.)

WELLINGTON.

September 20. The ratepayers of Melrose Ward to-day by 424 votes to 58, carried a proposal to borrow an additional sum of £22,000 required for tramway extension. Hie Union Company's steamer ilararoa. which arrived to-day from Sydney, had a very rough handling on (h L . trip. A furious gale raged during the passage, and i. on Monday fast a sea broke clean over the bridge. When off Terawhiti this moi-ninu two portholes were burst in, and the ship had to be hove-to while repairs were effected. DUXEDIX. September 20. Stock Exchange sales: —-Alexandra Lead. 6s 6d, New Alpine Consols 14s. Unity 4s 6d, 4s 4£d, and 4s 6d. OHRISTCTIURCH. September 20. At a meeting of the executive of the North Canterbury Farmers' Union to-day a deputation waited on the meeting re the Harvester Trust. After the position was discussed the following motion was adopted by the executive:—"That the proposal to move Parliament to impose pro- | hibitive Custom's duties on imported farm i implements and machinery is immature. I (2) That no sufficient reasons have yet been | shown for any legislation aimed at- the Internationaj Harvester Trust Company o! America. (3) That the executive recommends members of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and farmers generally to encourage and support as far as possible ihe purchase and use of Xew Zealand made implements and machinery, and thus encourage local industry. Copies of the resolution were ordered to be sent to the Premier, members of the Cabinet, all M.II.R.'s, and the Colonial and Provincial Executives of the Unions. A meeting of the executive in connection with the proposed consumptive sanatorium was held this afternoon, when the treasurer reported that £762 3s 6d had been promised towards the expenses of establishing the sanatorium, and £152 3s 6d had been paid. Forty horess were entered at the Can- • terburv A. and P. Association's annual horse parade, which was held ill pouring rain to-dav. As a class they fell far short of what might have been expected. There was only a small attendance of the public.

A discussion took place at a meeting of the Charitabio Aid Board to-day on the subject of rebates to old age pensioners who are inmates of the Board's homes. A motion to allow a shilling a week was negatived, and a resolution was passed that pensioners be granted their certificates at any time they cared to apply for them during the month. The mover said he did not want the pensioners to go, but- if they i desired to do so, he wanted them to go with some money in their pockets. A petition for presentation to Parliament is being circulated among the residents of Little River pointing out that a site for a village settlement- under good .auspices is badly wanted there for casual laborers such as shearers, grass-seeders, and others, who have no cliance at present of acquiring a permanent home in a district which affords employment at good wages. Between the Okiri River and the main coach road to Akaroa- there is, so the petition says, a block of sixty acres of native lands eminently suitable for village settlement purposes, and the Government is urged, with the consent- of the native owners, to acquire this land, giving the Maoris an equivalent in land in the estate "recently acquired from Mr White. AUCKLAND. September 20. At a meeting'of the Board of Education the director of technical education stated that- unless the Government did something to provide proper buildings for a technical school he would, at the end of the present year, give the Board six months' notice. Ho specially complained of tho attitude of the Premier at the Tecent interview on this question. The Board Tesolved that, the Aii'kland members be urged to pTCf,s for a grant of £15,000 for building a teel nical eolhgo at Auckland.

IXVERCARGILL. September 20. Charles August Thomson, of Waimumu, pleaded guilty to-day of. in October, 1904, making a false statement to the Registrar regarding the birth of a. child, which lie li«d stated to be his legitimate offspring, also giving a false name as that of the mother. Thomson's wife has been in the asylum for some years, and the mother of the infant is a single woman. Before Mr M'Carthy, S.M., to-day Cecil Hazlett was charged with striking Lieut.Colonel Hawkins across the back with a whip, and was fined £5, the Magistrate refusing to bind defendant over to keep the peace, as ho had made an apology in Court, and given an assurance that lie would not molest- complainant-. The matter lias excited some interest- locally. Hazlett, who is not a, volunteer, was in a- restaurant where the annual meeting of the Mounted Rifles was being held on the 25th ult. He borrowed a whip from one of the guests, and as Hawkins passed him in leaving gave him one back-handed stroke across the back with the whip. He had previously done the same thing to the owner of the whip, and also to another. Defendant- had published an apology in the local papers, in which lie described the assault- as "horse-whipping."' This was held to be an aggravation of the offence by the complainant. Marked newspapers played some part in the case. A writ for libel, claiming £6OO has been issued against a brother officer of Hawkins, who wrote on the subject of the assault to a, local paper with some warmth. There is no further news from Riverton regarding the position of the s.s. Rose Casey, ashore on the bar and full of water. Unfortunately the wind is easterly, and the bar is fully exposed to that wind and sea. NELSON. September 20. Miss Margaret Lorimer, M.A., who for some ten years was on the staff of the Girls' High School at Christchurch, and who has more recently had charge of the large girls' school at Mount Cook, Wellington, has been appointed lady principal of the Kelson Girls' College, the present- principal having sent in her resignation. BLENHEIM. . September 20. In the Police Court Joseph Henry Burne, a- young man, was charged with robbing Patrick O'Driscoll of Is on the night of the 4th, and at the same time "sing personal violence. This is the case ni which O'JJriscoll was wounded in the head and taken to the hospital, where he has b-..e:i over since. A stone and bloodstained handkerchief found on accused were produced in Court, the police theorybeing that accused used these as a. sling to batter O'Driseoll on the head. Accused was committed for trial. The first application in this district for exemption from the street widening clause of the Public Works Act has been made to the Blenheim Borough Council, and was recommended for approval of the Gover-nor-in-Council. MASTERTON. September 20. Taranaki beat Wairarapa to-day by five points to nil. The ground was heavy, and pools of water lay on it. TaTajiaki was a! long way the superior team.