CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 50, 1 March 1905, Page 6

CONFERENCE

'I'IIH NO-LICENSE QUESTION. [BY TEDEOIIAPH— I'UKSS ASSOCIATION j CHRIBTCHURCII, '['his Day. At tho Congregational Conforoneo, Mr. .J. A. Wilkinson moved— ."Thai in the opinion of this Council ttio only feasible solution of tho liquor traffic or the ovils aiising thorofrom is tho carrying of noliconso, and, this being Iho year of tho taking of Iho local option poll, it .hopes by the earnost efforts and volos of Christian electorn thai many electorates throughout the colony may be successful in carrying Una great reform." Tho Rot. D. M. Wright moved as an amendinont— "That in view of the vast importance of tho temperance question, this Council suggests to members of our churches tho duty of doinat nil in their power to stein the tide of Intemperance, and strongly recommends to their careful consideration tho various remedial meanines suggested, in particular no-license, and tho public control of the liquor traffic." After a long discussion the first part of the motion was amonded to road: "That in Iho opinion of this Council the no-licenso movement deserves tho hearty sunpoil of Christian Churches in this colony." The motion as amended was then carried by 39 votes to 4, and tho Amendment being put as a substantive motion was lost by 28 votes to 8.

Tho Fire Brigade- w,i« called out at 6.20 a.m. to-day to a liiv in a two-sloiy brick building in JeiuseuWvenue, oir Ghuznee-strecl, and isoon .subdued the outbreak, but not boforo tho portion of the top lloor occupied by Meuro. M^owels and Co., printers and bookbinders, with its content*, w.is considerably duinugud. I no ground lloor, and portion of the Til st floor occupied by Mr. lloyland, cabinetmaker, were .slightly injured by heal and .water. The building is insured with tho London and Lancashire for £600. Mr. lloyland's stock v, insured in the South British for £230. Miww, Mowels and Co.'s stock was not insured. Mr. John Goodall, M.1.C.E., who ,<»uperintended the erection of the Auckland Waterworks, and also tho construction of the Ttmuiu and Napitr breakwntiis, died at hih son's residence, near Bulls, lust Sunday. A Police Court sitting was held ut Lower Hutt this morning by Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., who had on the Bench with him Messrs. John Cud by nnd W. IngHs, JusUces. Charles Hartliy was lined 5s and casts for having bohavod it. & way that provoked a bleach of the poace. A similar chargo aguinM Kcnyou Travel's wu9 dismibserl, defondant having received provocation, and having lost his enifiioynient by icufou of the tro.iible. William IHllis, a prohibited person, was, fined £1 lor having been found on licensed premitcf. His Worship explained tli.it Iho fine \.ouM have been made heavier but foi Ihe fact that defendant's family would have to pay the money and suffer the inconu-nience. I'm having permitted Mock to wander, Frederick Coiichmitn, Peter Sharp, Thomas Hurley, and Halstead Huiley were oach lined 5s and costs (7s). Jn'mcs Slutlery was fined £5 for having used obscene language, outside the Oddfellows' Hull, Taower Hutt, when a meeting van being held there on Tuesday evening. IW drunkerincKH and for having difttnrto(i:ho meeting ho was convicted and disulrirgod. An acojdent occuiml on the s.s. Hotomahanti yesterday afternoon to a nuwi named John Stewart, who wan employed by tho Union Company shipping wheep. He was carrying a gangway along the deck, afsiwted by ono Nixon, when he slipped and fell. The gangway camoacross his legs, breaking tho right one below the kneo. After being attended to by Dr. Henry tho injured man was removed' to tho Hospital in the ambulance wagon. Mr. J. A. Fmstick spoke, st rongly at the banquet to Mr. G. T. Booth, at Chi'istcliureh, on Monday, mports the Proes, on the effects of the policy of tho Labour Party, to extract tho largest amount of money for tho least amount of work, and quoted figures in support of his contention that Home manufacturers woro suffering from it. A visitor from America, writing of recent labour legislation in this colony, had remarked that' it affected favourably the demand for imported goods, and Mr. Frost k-k's hguies dealing with the increased imports of articles of wearing apparel during the past five years wont to support that statement. In tho period men Ironed the population had increased 19 per cent. ; the imports of hosiery had increased 39 per cent. ; of woollen goods, 47 por cent. ; of clothing, 48 per cent. ; and of boots, 62 per cent. Actually £3,000,000 was spent in imported clothing, whilst the value of imports of dutiable goods from America had increased from £344,000 to £861.000, or 150 por cent., and of mmdutiable good** from £147,000 to £587,000. The imports of dutiable goods from Germany showed a more marked increjit>e, being from £7?,000 to £204,000. Those iigurm shoukl, ho added, bo an objectlesson to both manufacturers and workem, and should show the latter that their policy wus a dangerous one, and that the sooner it was altered the belter. There was a birthday party at Petone. on 20th February, and while some of tho guests wcro on their way home certain things happened which resulted in informations being sworn against fJeorgo and Alex. Gough for having assaulted Albort Standard. Tho case was investigated at tho Lower Hutt this morning by Dr. A. M'Arfehur, S.M., when ovidenco was given which showed that a party of young men on thoir way homo from the entertainment got into arguments that ended in blows. Testimony was given that the parties had done themselves very little harm. His Worship dismissed the case. Mr. Crucroft Wilson appealed for the defendants. In tho civil division of the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court yesterday, Thomas Green sued James A. Conncll for £5 2s. Dofendant admitted that ho owed £3 9n of the umoiint for lent, but disputed the Imhuico of the amount sued for, which was alleged to be duo on account of clothe.*) obtained in 1898. Defendant counter-claimed for £1 15s 6d on account of pictures lemoved fiom tho houso of pl.iintitf which wus occupied by defendant. Judgment wa« given for pin i n t i IF for an amount of £2 5s 6d, which had been paid into cunt, and the louiiter-claim wa*< allowed. Mi. .Wilson was counsel for plaintilf, and Mr. Hcidniiin for defendant. Tho Hutt Valley llortieiiltur.il Society's Summer Show was opened on tho Waiwetu Cricket Club's gi omuls to-day. The number of exhibits in large , and m other respects the Show it a great success.