BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 11694, 27 September 1902, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

The Greymouth Temperance party are particularly active, and hope to secure a vote for reduction.

Yrest Coast saw-millers are disagreeing among themselves, and if points of difference are- not adjusted on Monday next " cutthroat" competition is intimated. The Rev. C. H. Young, a Presbyterian locum tenens minister at Masterton, at a farewell gathering last evening intimated his intention of seceding from the Presbv. ttrian Church on the ground that its dognil» trammelled bis freedom in religious thought and speech. His remarks ou the out*I sion have caused some sensation. j Joseph Davies, a conductor in the ser- [ vice of the South London Tramways Company, was fined 20s and 2s at the Southwestern Police Court on a recent occasion for overcrowding. Four female passengers were ordered to pay 2s each. In connection with the project to send Home a representative band from New Zealand, a movement of a practical sort has been started. The band 13 to consist of twenty-eight members, selected from all parts of the colony. The necessary funds are to be raised by subscriptions or debentures of £lO each, the amount estimated being £3,000. The profits of the venture vrill be divided amongst subscribers according to the amount of their subscriptions. About 160 shares have already been subscribed between New Plymouth and Wellington, and a North Island resident, so we I are informed, has offered to take up the balance. As the band is to be representative, the promoters desire the subscriptions to be representative also. Applications for membership of the band are said to be numerous. Mr H. M. Gooch is at present in Dunedin in the interests of the scheme.