LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

» (Per Press Association.) i AUCKLAND, last night. Frenchmen nil over the world cele brate'd theiv national' fete yeatevday, am m honor of the event M. Regorean representative of France m Auckland held a reception. The Consul was wait ed- upon by a large gathering, ■ including tiie foreign consuls and many official. 1 and private, people and a number ol French subjects. The proceedings were most cordial. Consideration of the action to be taken m connection with the capping day. disturbances whs deferred by the University College Council until- thi matter had been discussed with t hi representatives of the Professorial Hoard. The University College Council ac cepted a bequest of £20,000 made by the late Sir John Logan Campbell foi the purpose of establishing a Chair ol Agriculture. A motion was carried e.\ pressing -the Council's grateful sense ol the benefit conferred on tlie Auckland University College and the whole Dominion by the bequest. A meeting of the local branch of the Navy League was held to-night to insti' fresh life into the csmse m Auckland and the surrounding district. The meet ing was a great success, and a strong executive wai set up. The success ol the movement is assured; "1 notice that m it.? latest report the Health Department, complains that thi fines imposed here have not had the slightest effect on milk vendors, and that this .offence of adulterating milk is on the increase." Thus spoke Mi Cutten, S.M.; at the Police Court, apropos of several charges against milk vendors of selling milk which contained an excess of water., "Jn view of tin; facts that the Department's inspectors put before me I shall have to. shift u\i my minimum fine," he concluded. Twi defendants who came before His Worship were then fined £5 each with costs, and another,' m view of previous convictions, was fined £10 and costs. WESTPORT, last night. The Westport Harbor Board has tie oided to oppose the Railway Department's proposed scheme, estimated to t*ost J82700, for the installation of electric lighting of the railway yards and the wharves, as the Board is considering a large ac-lieme to include the lighting of the whole of the works, including it's floating basin. CHRISTCHTtRCH, last night. A newspaper correspondent has sue qjested the desirableness . of municipalities instituting relief works, but. the Mayor states that so far as he is advised there is no necessity for such works, .and the Town Clerk states that tho present winter ia the quietest experienced for some years m the matte? of inquiries for work at the City Council office,