LATE TELEGRAMS

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 191, 13 August 1919, Page 8

LATE TELEGRAMS

(By Telegraph.- Press Association.) AGAINST KOl'R .MONTHS' TRAINING. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Presbytery to-day unanimously carried a motion of protest against the proposed four months' continuous military training of youths, considering that most of the work of the scheme could be better conducted under the Education Department.

BOARD PAYS £2000 CO MP ENS ATI OX. CiIRISTCIirRCIL this day. The Tramway Board paid into the Supreme Court £2000 compensation in connection with the death of William Hruntou, killed in the Kerry Road tram smash. A CHILD POISONED. DIXEDI.N, this day. Man ley Norman Ciuest, aged two years, died at Balclutha as tho. result or "swallowing black paint from a child's paint box. Tho child swallowed the paint yesterday forenoon, and after being given an emetic seemed all right, but died early this morning. ADMIRAL J ELM CUE'S DATE. WELLINGTON, this day. Admiral .lelliooo has notified the Government that ho will arrive at Wellington on August 20. DECORATIONS PRESENTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CUKISTCIIIRCII, this day.

The Governor-General this morning presented letters patent to Sir Joseph Kinsey, and invested several ladies and gentlemen with the Order of the British Empire. His Excellency also presented the Military Cms- to Lieut. G. C. Gerrard. and" the Royal Red Cross Medal to Sister A. .1. Mack ay. A MINER KILLED. DUXKDiN/, this day. The police have received a telegram from Alexandra reporting that William Kecblc. a miin r. aged 57, was round dead yesterday under a full of earth.