LAST NIGHT'S TELIGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12410, 21 March 1911, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELIGRAMS.

(Vn Prean Association.^ . DARG AVILLE, la«t night. The depression m the kauri gviin mor/ket which has prevailed throughout tae year shows no «igns of passing away, and diggers, especially. Uroatians, are leaving the field m large numbers ia search of more remunerative avenues of employment. It has been asserted th<U the depression is due to the machinations of a combine m London, but inquiries have failed to elicit sufficient evidence to substantiate that theory. It would seem that a reason for t.ie slump- is that substitute* for kauri m the shape of other gums are being placed 011 the . market. , AUCKLAND, last night. >,At the ' Police Court W-day JohnGics\\hm, occupier of a ledging-house m the city, ' was lined £fao, or m default :i nionthWinprwonment for sly grog sel!Hifr His housekeeper, ..Isabella- MitcheH,'■*«*^fined £5 or seven days' innrisontrient. Harry Smith, of Parnell, w.ho wan convicted , of four similar o/fenqes,-. was .fined £100, or tn" default a month's imprisonment. ' f NEW .PLYMOUT7H, 1 «t night. ■'. At the "instance of the Daily NeM-s proprietary, who made representations on hehalf of the Taranaki farmers, t:ie High Commissioner^ report is to in< elude quoted prices of pork on the Lcridon market. \ The Hoh J. Carroll, Acting-Premier and Native Minister, spent the weekend at Farihafta Native villasre. He xrJlained that he and the members of '■• party, as representirut , various tribrs. 1 conforming to old Maori custom ia pa ng their respects to the memory of the oted prophet and chieftain Te Whrti, i^d that- the visit had no political sunHcarire. ' ■■■ .WELLINGTON, last mght. ' The boy OfLearv, who came from Hawke's Bay >y train on Saturday. was taken charse of by Ihe police, aMI ."•wtipearea suddenly yesterday,. , , was f ni m the New Plymouth tram toAi. w"hen Vhe train was Ttetix