NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 285, 26 August 1908, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IBY TELEGRAPH —PRESS • ASSOCIATION;! 0 MAIN TRUNK STOPPING PLACES. . , Huntorville, August 25. ' At a large and influential meeting of settlers and townsmen in the Argylo Hall this afternoon, it. was resolved that Mr. Remington, M.P. for tho district, bo requested to convey to the Minister for Railways a resolution, which was carried on the motion of Mr. Thomas Duncan, seconded by Mr. A. G. Simpson, that Hunterville, being the centre of a large and prosperous'district, it should be a stopping place for the Main Trunk express. Mr. Remington is to bo asked to use every effort to that end. : . THE MISSING HAWEA. □unetiin, August 25. Both the Flora and tho Ralsanoa are to be sent out again from Newcastle in search of tho Hawea, FRANCHISE EXTENSION OPPOSED. ■ Timaru, August 25. At a meeting of the Borough Council last night the Mayor (Mr. Craigie) referred in uncomplimentary terms to Mr. Fisher's Bill extending tho parliamentary franchise to municipalities. It was not right, he said,' that every person twenty-one years of age should have' tho right to vote at a municipal election when contributing nothing to the rates. Councillors endorsed the Mayor's protest, and joined him in tho hope that the ' Bill would be thrown out by the Legislative ' Council. RATS CAUSE A FIRE. , Hastings. August 25. Rats proved directly responsible for an outbreak of fire in tho two-storied residence of Mr. Morris Mason. Smoke was noticed issuing from a. cupboard under the stairs at 8 o'clock last night, and the fire was promptly subdued. Under lumber was discovered a rat's nest, in which was an ignited box of was vestas bearing marks of rats' - teeth. N _ . OBITUARY. Nelson, August 25. News has'been received of the death at Willowmore, South Africa, of Dr. E. T. Melhuish, son. of Mr. R. T. Melhuish, of Nelson, from blood-poisoning, after performing an operation on a patient. .Deceased was formerly of Nelson College, and was en-' gaged by the Grand Junction Railway Com- v pany, Cape Colony., Ho also served in the Boer War. • LABOUR AND NO-LICENSE. ■ Dunedin, 'August 25.. : Tho engine-drivers endorsed the ,resolution of tho Trades Conference recommending the workers ,to vote No-License. ■,

harbour board and employers , -, i association. , . ■: ■: Napier, August 25. . : At a meeting of tho Napier Harbour Board ' this afternoon the question of the Board , joining tho Hawke's Bay Employers' Asso-, ciation came under review. -The Chairman .] (Mr. J. Vigor Brown) said that at last meet- ■; ing he had questioned the action of the : Board in deciding not to join the Associa- ' tion, and had agreed with it. He had since made inquiries and found that no other ■Board in the Dominion had joined an employers' association, and it was illegal for the Board, to use its funds for the' purposes of entering such a body: On the'motion of the Chairman, it was decided to rescind the previous resolution, and not to joia the Assoi oiation. . CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAYS. Chrlstohuroh, August 25. From July 20 to August 16, the total ■ number of passengers carried on the Christ- : church tramways was 817,739, as against : 771,040 for the same period last year;