TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13693, 8 September 1906, Page 10

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Pmss Association.) -,- t■' NEW PLYMOUTH,' September 7. ' Mr Berry, lopaj representative of the Parapara..lron and Steel Company, intimated at the Chamber of Commerce meet!!!S that thc-Governmoiit wasqiiite ■propured;to amend clause 14 of iho Parapara ■: leases ill any way desired by the-company, m order to enauro development of tho. iron oro industry. ••• '. .' Tho; New Plymouth. Chamber of Commerce resolved that the Government be requested not to ratify the Reciprocity Treaty .with Australia.'

WELLINGTON, September 7. At the Magistrate's' Court to-day. Ernest ■Barge; dairyman, • was-fined £3 for having failed to keep, his .dairy, in..a stater of thorough., cleanliness.

At the quarterly meeting of the Newtown Licensing Committee -it iyas indicated to tho licensee of the .Park' Hotel that the license would not bo renowod at the annual meeting unless the liouso was conducted in i better \yay. • -The-police report stated that-too much druhkennessi was scon about Uio premises!

ASKBURTON; • September 7. • At tho Magistrate's Court Mr Wray, S.M., convicted John Kilgour on three charges of selling and "one charge of exposing liquor for tailo at- Mount Somers, and fined liini' £30 bn olio charge! for selling. A week was allowed in which to pay tho fine, failing which six weeks' imprisonment. .Tames Smith :rtis fined 40s and costs for 1 bringing '.liquor • into, a no-license district. A fhopkecper was fined 5s for soiling a Binall boy a pennyworth of lollies on Sunday last.