TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 10

TELEGRAMS

• (Pes TJhiidd Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 5. The proceeds of the Dominion Fair in aid of St. Patrick's Cathedral were over £1500, and the net return is-expected to be about £1200. ' March 6. In adjudicating on a dispute between a master and servant in the Magistrate's Court this morning, Mr Kettle, S.M., saidiliui -disputes .between muster and servant, which were too numerous, would be rare, and much of the time of the court saved, if employee when engaging servants entered in a book to be kept for the purposo and fig'ned -by both parties the .name of the, servant, date of employment, rate of wages, how and when payable, how service to bo determined, and the nature of the services to be rendered by the servant. A ce#y of the entry should be handed to the servant.

GISBORNE, March 5. The statement telegraphed from Auckland that the s.s. Mokoio. grounded on a mud bank in Auckland Harbour is indignantly denied by the officers of the vessel. The vessel did not touch the bottom, but was delayed slightly owing to derangement of the steering machinery.

NAPIER, March 5. With reference to the suggested purchase of the gasworks by the corporation, the borough solicitors advise the council that

there i 6 no machinery under which a going concern as such, or rights acquired by private ownership under an act of Parliament, could bo acquired compulsorily by the council.

WELLINGTON, March 5. The .Wellington. Master Bootmakers' Acsociation has decided to raise the prices of boot repairing.

Friday, March 6. On a creditor's petition, the Public Service Co-operative Stores . were ordered to be wound up this morning. The magistrate also appointed an official liquidator.

WESTPORT,* March 5.

The Borough Council ha 6 reduced the price of gas to the uniform figure of 5s per 1000 cubic feet f or lighting and cooking. ;'

CHRISTOITURCII, March 6. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Ernest Vaughan pleadeii " Guilty " to a charge of forgary and uttering cheques, and was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.