GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 171, 12 August 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

VOLUNTEERS CALLED OCT. By Telegraph. —Preßß Association, Invercargill, Last Night. Tiie volunteers, exclusive of cadets, were called out to-night by ringing the lire-bell. One hundred and thirty-fonr men jvere present within ua hour. A DKMAjtD KOII 11AILWAY EXTENSION

. . Gore, Last Night. ' A strong deputation of local citizens —lilt -.! on the Minister for Public Works >ening, urging the claims for cxii 5 ol the Waikaka railway througii Slua Flat to. lloxbnrgli and Hedgehoue to Gore. The Minister said a railway was wanted up eyerv gully in Southland, Vj'hii'h. owing to tiie topography of the romilry, |ei/t itself to easy railway construction. The surveys of these lines iiad already b??n made. But lie gave no indication of his opinion. He added that it'was a pity that there were no more fertile Southlands distributed the Dominion. The Minister visits Waikaia and Waikjika to-morrow.

, , A STABBING Al'TliAY. Hamilton, August 11. During a dispute last evening between three uien, William Bradley received a stab in tile lower part of the back, inflicted by some sharp instrument. Tne injury; appears to have been sustained somewhat mysteriously, as the injured man declares a foreigner came along rind stjibbpd liini. The police arrested one of'the- three men concerned, named John Murray, who apparod at the Police Court charged with wounding, accused was remanded on bail.