TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15098, 22 March 1911, Page 8

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee Dhitto Pbess Association.)

WANGANUI, March 18.

The executive of the old boys belonging to Wanganui College. Avho are presenting a chapel to that institution, has accepted the tender of Mr Menl, Wanffinni, for sometliing over £4000. The foundation stone will be laid on Easter Sunday.

CHRISTCHURCH, March 19.

The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council has decided, in connection with the Coronation medals, that at the ekc■Uon of school committees a protest he made regarding the action of the Government in having the medals manufactured out of the Dominion. Regarding the recent conference on the iron industry, it vas decided to. support any duty being placed on imported articles. A notice of motion was tabled proposing that the resolution constituting tihe- council a district branch of the Federation of Labour be rescinded.

TD.IAEU, March Iβ.

The. annual meeting of the Timaru A. and P. Society was held to-day. The report shows a satisfactory year, the profits being £300. With this sum and the balance i'rom last year the total is £488. Debentures amounting to £600 have been paid off, buiMinge added to the value of £230, and --'novations £72, leaving a debit of £57. Mr H. Elworthy was elected president and Mr J. Withell vicepresident. The perennial complaini as regards shortage of railway trucks is again being heard in this district. The demand is even more urgent than usual, as the threshing season has been, fine and the ehort straw enabled the mills to make quick work. Record tallies for a day's •work have been made.

A seaman who deserted from the Kumara at Sydney was recognised by the captain of the Kumara on the Everton Grange here. Hβ was arrested for desertion, and the charge was heard today before the stipendiary magistrate, and dismissed on the ground that the man lad the excuse Ohat he was suffering from a, broken jaw, the result of a fall, when he left the Knroaia.

Five men charged with playing "twotip " at the Pareora freezing works last Sunday were' caught in a rush b- Dstcc-ti-re Fahey and Constable M'Clatchey. There was a difficulty in identifying' the defendants, as a party of a store or so bolted into rooms when, the police cycled up, and three of the cases were dismissed. Two of the defendants, however, were convicted and fined £3 each or 14 days. Rain is much needed in South Canterbury. The country is very dry. with no growth rn feed. The recent "rainfall in the south did not reach so far as here, except in ineffectual drizzles.