TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11807, 9 August 1900, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(Pkr United Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, August 8. Resolutions were passed 7 at the annual ■meeting of the local branch of the Liberal Federation to-day affirming the desirability of pushing forward the main roads to Auckland, the introduction of penny post, and condemning the introduction of the liquor traffic into the King Country, also any interference with the principle of local orttion.

WELLINGTON, August 8. It is notified that the Stoke Commission will resume its sittings at Nelson on Friday, and all persons having complaints to make are advised to communicate at once with the secretary of the commission. The commissioners, who are at present here, return to Nelson to-morrow.

Mr Charles Morris, son of Captain Morris, M.L.C., swept the board of prizes in the dental department at Guy's Hospital, London,' thus. repeating his elder brother Gerald's performance in the last pass examinations at the same hospital.

CHRISTCHURGH, August 8. Andrew Hamilton Waddell, convicted, at the Police Court to-day of damaging books at the public library, was fined* £5, and ordered to pay £4* 10s, the amount of damage done..

Peter Justesen, a seaman on board the Swedish barque Hedvig, was committed for trial to-da-j on a charge of stabbing August Svensson, carpenter of the vessel.

At a meeting of the Canterbury-A. and P. Association, Mr O. P. Pemberton was elected secretary, in place of Mr M. Murphy, resigned. There were 50 applicants for the position.

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