TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10496, 24 October 1905, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Tlie Chinese friends of Joe Kum Yung, whom Lionel Terry states that he shot iv Haintng .street on September 24th, have shipped the body of deceased home to China m order that the usual religious rites may be celebrated. There were no fewer thau 5192 men, of whom otdy 199 are artisans, engaged during last month upon State co-opera-tive works m New Zealand. In September of last year tho total number was 3159, including 185 artisans. The no-license party (states the Dunedin correspondent of a southern paper) is confident of capturing Oamaru, Tuapeka, Invercargill, Chalmers and Awarua, and declares that prohibition will go very near carrying tho day al Taieri and Wai.' kouaiti. Tho Dunedin corrcspondetit of the Lyttelton Times states that it is understood that Mr T. H. Hauler, popularly known on tho secretarial staff of the Premier, will succeed Mr Huntly Eliott (who is retiring on pension) as undersecretary m the Mines Department. Apart 'from politics much interest m centred m Taranaki m a breach of promise case, shortly to be heard before the Chief Justice and a special jury — the fair plaintiff claiming damages' £looo for a broken heart aud blighted prospects. Tlie defendant, a bachelor, is a person of good social standing and substance.