NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 181, 10 November 1910, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

BUILDERS' CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. The Builders' Conference passed the following resolutions, among others: — That when tenders for works are called ' all builders be advised to refuse to tender unless the works are to be carried out under the new conditions of contract recently agreed upon, the Government, local bodies and education boards to be exempted from the above until some agreement has been arrived at with them (Dunedin); that further efforts be {made by each affiliated union to secure the adoption and use of the new general conditions of contract by all local, bodies (Canterbury); that continuous efforts be made to have the Wages Protection and Contractors' Lien Act amended to provide that the principal contractor shall not be responsible for more than 25 per cent, of the amount of any sub-contract on which a lien or claim may be lodged (Wanganui). It was decided to support the nominations of Messrs W. Scott and W. Pryor as employers' representative and deputy respectively on the Arbitration Court bench. INSPECTION OF FRUIT. Wellington, Wednesday. It is reported that late shipments of fruit to New Zealand from New South Wales have been rotten with the maggot of the fruit fly, and have in consequence been condemned and destroyed at the port of Wellington. NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION. Wellington, Wednesday. The Wellington Industrial Association expects to hold a New Zealand Industrial Exhibition next year in two of the Harbor Board's big sheds. The Board has agreed to lend these buildings, and it.is now proposed to open the exhibition on May 24 and keep it going till July 28. ' A CLEVER CAPTURE. Auckland, Wednesday. When the Talune arrived from Suva yesterday Detective Cox arrested a man named Alfred Phillips on a charge of having unlawfully deserted his wife at Auckland. Phillips left for Suva by the last outward boat en route for San Francisco, but telegraphic information regarding him reached Suva before he got there, and he was headed on" and sent back by the Talune. It is alleged that lie deserted his wife, leaving her destitute. She was under the impression that she was going to San Francisco, but her husband told her that the steamer was leaving at G o'clock, whereas, in fact, it left earlier in the day, and when she went down to the wharf to get on board she found that both the ship and her husband had gone. Accused, who had some £IOO in his pookets when arrested, was remanded until Friday. AN ATTEMPT THAT FAILED. Masterton, Wednesday. ] W. A. O'DonneJl, of Levin, started nt 1 11 minutes past 5 this morning to attempt to break the world's record .time for 100 miles' cycling, previous re- ■ cord was 4hr. 52min. sl'4''ssee., put .up by Leon Meredith, tite English champion. O'Donnell was delayed by three mobs of cattle and two mobs of sheep, but -arrived at the finishing pont about 17.minutes to 11, having covered the distance in shr. 53min. 5 4-ssec, a margin of 40 < minutes 14 seconds behind the record; 1 '- *