DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4369, 13 October 1916, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Press Association Telegram.) DUNEDIN, Oct. 12. Thirty of the men who returned by the Paloona from Egypt, via. .Australia, yesterday, left for the north by thai' vessel this afternoon. The ifcptist Union Conference, sitting here to-dav, alter adopting various reports on mission work, elected the following officers, for the missionary union; Secretary, the Rev, J. K. Ardher, Wellington; treasurer, C. Cathie, Wellington; financial secretary, the Rev. F. G. Oldrieve. CHE IST OH U RCH, Oct. 12. In connection with the betting cases, William Vivian Whitta was charged with owning houses used for gambling. The magistrate said there was a grave suspicion, but he would give defendant the benefit of the doubt that existed. The charge was dismissed. TAUT APE, Oct. 12, The Tuwliarot-oa Natives who, at the recent meeting at Tckaanu, gave 20,000 acres of Okauko block for Maori soldiers’ settlement, at the same time informed the Hon. Dr. Pom are that they would give £BOO now lying to their credit with the Public Trust as a donation towards erecting a monument in Wellington to tho memory of the Maori soldiers killed in the war. Messrs. Ngata, Parata and Tail Henarc arc to be asked to confer with their people with a view to increasing the amount to £2OOO, or more if necessary, to secure a monument of the highest art style. The Maoris would like it erected in front of Parliament Buildings.