TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14279, 30 July 1908, Page 7

TELEGRAMS

— «B> . (Pee United Phess Association.) ah , AUCKLAND, J u l y 29. A poll was taken to-day on the City councils proposal to raise £130,000 for vanous work Though the voting wa poor, the.whole of tho proposals were earned, that for the Town Hall meeting with the most opposition. Tor this 767 votes were cast in favour and 553 against, giving a majority of 199. >b»i»K ■ CHRISTCHUROH, July 29. A young man, Leonard Hamilton Hay SfJwi °» •'° m M nd l0 "- day ' cllal '6 ed witn the theft of jowellery of tho value of £65 Best, R«dchffs. Accused pleaded " Guilty " and was committed to Mho Supreme Court At the Rangiora Magistrate's Court yesterday a man named William Bell pleaded "Guilty" to breaking, entering, and theft at West Eyreton, and was eon,! rmttcd to the Supreme Court for sentence On a charge of stealing a horse at Oxford he was committed for trial,

A , ~ _ WAIMATE, July 29. At the; Boroujrh Council meeting on luesday evening, 'statements were made that the town was m an insanitary state and the cause of, the outbreak ofscarle? fever prevalent in the South Island at present. The Jlavor and other nt D linch (Distort Hodth. Officer) in the Coun. o. Chambers t h„ afternoon, and the doctor said the town was perfectly sanitary, and that scarlet fever was not caused by bad drainage but by contact, and Waimate