GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 7 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

ARGENTINE MEAT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. The Commerce Department has * received the following cablegram, dated Beunos Ayres, January 4:—"The following shipments of produce were dispatched from the Argentine to United Kingdom ports during December, 1910 (1909 figures in parentheses): Frozen beef, 57,319 quarters (100,335 quarters); chilled beef, 154,085 quarters (116,893 quarters); frozen mutton, 150,254 carcases (105,000 carcases); frozen lamb, 95,601 carcases (34.075 carcases); butter, 5340 cwt (9439 cwt). A DEFAULTING FIREMAN. Christchurch, Friday. Another defaulting fireman was before the court at Lyttelton to-day, and was sentenced to a week's imprisonment. In this case the man had signed on the Delphic as from January 4, and had gone aboard on January 5 about an hour before the departure of the vessel for Wellington, when the captain ordered his arrest. A SLY GROG RAID. Wellington, Friday. As the result of a raid by the police during Christmas week ten defendants were summoned to the police court today. Two men, Power and Britis, were each fined £SO and costs, in default one month's imprisonment, on a charge of selling liquor without a license. The other defendants were fined amounts varying up to £2 for being found on the premises.