NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(BI TEIZGIUHt— I'ItJSS ASSOCIATION.) RAILWAY SERVICES. CONFERENCE AT PALMERSTON NORTH. Palmerston North, March 11. The Chamber of Commerce to-night considered letters re railway services, and ' de-cided-to call ft conference of representatives of .the Chamber of Commerce and others interested 'in 'the Hawko's Bay-Wairarapa-Trunk line services hero at an early date. A HUCE KORERO. ■ ;. Auckland, March 11. 'An'important Native gathering convened by;Te Heu Heu Tukino and twelve other leading chjefs will be opened at Tokaanu on April 10. It is expected that severer thousand Natives will be present. The object of the meeting is to urge,upon.the Maori people to' combine throughout the Dominion to insist upon the Native race being .placed on the. same footing as Europeans in regard to , land, civil, and electoral rights, with the reservation of fishing, rights over certain lakes extended by the Treaty. of Waitangi.. His Excellency the Governor and Ministers of the Crown have been invited to be present. TYPHOID AT CISBORNE. i ■Ji •'..', , „ . ,Cisnorne, Mirch 11. .Dr. Mason,, Health .Officer, is "atr present VI ?'U n S ."'sbprne ' in ' connection J: with an epidemic of --typhoid. * At' present , 'there are-28. cases in •'the To-night UT. Mason met the - council, and expressed tne nopei that soon a suitable sewerage system would be adopted for the town. ■'; ON A TRAIN. ,~, , ' Chrlstohuroh, March 11. A,disturbance occurred on the late express from. Dirnedm, which arrives here at 10 40 thotram at Rakaia. . An altercation arose between, him and another passenger, and a 3i a -r™ We en , 5 ««V He produced and opened, c large pocket knife, and put the £r?vF S fnf- S A° ¥f train arrived at Chnstchurch he was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly.

' INTERESTING CEREMONY. m , v '•'■":. _~ Dune'dln, March 11. interesting ceremony was ' performed at Musselburgh. The children of the btate school there have purchased a fla" fc»nd.«p), placed it in a box made of W Zealand woods; put a suitable inscription on a silver plak attached to the W and,are sending it to the children of Musselburgh school in Scotland. A larce