INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13807, 19 January 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. CARTERTON, Jan. 18. Joseph Clicw was arrested yesterday by Detective Williams, charged with" setting fire to a shop in High street, the property.of G. W. Deller. Tho police asked for and were granted a remand till January 26th. Bail was allowed accused £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each. / FEILDING, Jan. 18. Entries .for the Feilding show on February 2nd and 3rd, are largely in excess of those of last year, and ccustitute a. record entry. The increases aro mainly in sheep, cattle, pigs and homo industries. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 18. At a meeting on Saturday night, which was attended by Lieut. Knox and Mr Palmer, of Wellington, a Taranaki branch of the Navy League, was formed. The ; Governor will be asked to become patron. Mr Tiscli, Mayor of Now Plymouth, was elected president, and vice-presidents will be elected from the whole district. About thirty members were enrolled, and Captain C; T. Mills was appointed secretary.

GISBORNE, Jan. 18.A meeting of pastoralists at Tologa Bay resolved that freezing works should be established there in time to commence work next season. The chairman of the Gisborne Sheep Farmers' Company, was present ,and suggested the erection of auxiliary works to those at Gisborne. - Those present at the meeting were stated to be freezing 51,000 slieep in the season. The delegation from Tologa. Bay will attend a meeting at Tokomaru on Saturday to solicit support from sheep farmers to the North Island scheme.

Jan. 18. A sitting of the' Conciliation Board was to liavo been held; lierc this morning, in connection, with the bricklayers' dispute, but lapsed'for want of a quorum. It was decided to adjourn until to-morrow morning. Mr H. Lan Simson, one of the candidates for the Hawke's Bay scat, returned his election expenses at £l9O 19s 11 id. / • At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Herman Langsdorf,- charged with obtaining money from two persons by means of valueless cheques,' reserved his defence and was committed to the Supremo Court for trial on bail.

. . NELSON, Jan. 18. At the Magistrate's Court, to-day, Harry At more, the unsucceissful candidate for the Nelson seat at the general election, was charged by the registrar of electors with wilfully misleading him in the compilation of the electoral roll by causing to be enrolled the names of Thomas Lorenzo Allred and Oliver Theodore Nilsen, in resnect of a false qualification, knowing them not to bo British subjects by birth or naturalisation in New Zealand. Defendant pleaded not. guilty, and contended that in asking the (jufcstidii specified in the forms of enrolment, to which he .said lie had received affirmative replies, he had complied with the law. The S.M, said he did not doubt that the defendant's version was the 'correct one, but he took time to consider if a technical breach had been committed.

WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. The annual report of tho _ Harbour Board, submitted to-day, reviews the year's work. The shipments of wool, skins, liemp and tow amounted to 218,094 bales (which constitutes a record.); wool, 10,1.27 bales better than <n 1907; hemp, decreased 10.9 per cent.; exports of general goods amounted to 105,135 tons, the largest tonnage ret recordod; the shipping tonnage lias di übled in the past ten yefs. One paragraph in the report states that, taking the accommodation, despatch provided, and amount <f work dino and the charges levied, Wellington is still the cheapest port in the Dominion. INVERCAR.GILL, Jan. 18. Bishop Verdon, who is in charge of the Otago and Southland Roman Catholic diocese, arrived at tho Bluff this morning after his decennial visit to tho Pope. He was informally welcomed by his clergy and parishioners, and the Hibernian Society . To-riiglit the Bishop will be officially welcomed, by the dioccso in the Dunedin Cathedral.

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The bankruptcy returns lor IpPS for the Dunedin district show 22 bankruptcies, in which the assets Pin.oiint to £13,440, and the liabilities £16,818. The amount paid in dividends was £8349. In Otago aiid Southland there were 56 bankruptcies; 23 orders were made for immediate discharge, and seven suspensions. Tlie total assets were £15,093,, the amounts secured to creditors £6083, the liabilities (excluding amount's secured) '£23,822, and the amount paid iii dividends £9261.