LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 November 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs. Levin and 00., Ltd., advise that the Shaw, Savill and Albion iiner ionic, inward bound, will arrive at Wellington at daybreak on Tuesday next, 17th inst.

At the Presbyterian. Assembly, Dunedin, the Rev. J. Paterson, on behalf of the Bible in Schools Committee, reported that there was an assured majority in the newly-elected House of Representatives favouring the Hon. L. M. Isitt’s Religious Exercises Bill, which would probably come into law at an early date.

The sudden death of a young married woman, Maud Orowel, residing with her uncle in Tinakori Road, Wellington, has been reported to the police, says a Press Association message. Deceased was found dead in bed at an early hour yesterday morning. There was no medical certificate and an inquest has been ordered.

Rowland Mulholland, aged five years, son of W. W. Mulholland, a well-known Darfied farmer, was killed on Wednesday as the result of the frame of a dray falling on him, says a Press Association message from Christchurch. A return ■ published in the Gazette last night shows that the estimated population of the Dominion as at September 30 iast, including Maoris, was 1,290,487: Together with that of mandate territories it is 1,335,719. The estimated Maori population is 54,768. Customs and excise duties for the quarter ended September 30 totalled £2,125,316. For the corresponding quarter last year the total was £2,014,‘926. The principal items last quarter were spirits £317,379, cigarettes £150,801, British preferential tariff, £682,563, general tariff £510,288. In excise duty beer paid £143,291 as against £146,424 in the previous quarter. Two seamen, John Finch Roberts and: Ernest Maurice .Smith, were brought before Mr Justice Alpers for sentence at Napier for receiving cloth valued at £3O, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. The former was sentenced to reformative treatment for 12 months and the latter to three years’ probation.—. Press Assn. The action by Mr. P. O’Dfea, barrister and solicitor, against a Patea resident who was to have been proceeded against for £IOO damages for slander and £25 damages for assault, has been settled on the terms of a public apology published in The Star to-day, and the payment of £SO, which after the payment of Mr. O’Dfea’s counsel (Mri F. C. Spratt) Mr. C’Dea has donated to the funds of the P'atea - Plunket Society. During a discussion by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian .Church at Dunedin’ on the committee’s report on immigration, the Rev. Inglia said that many, immigrants had no church connections. There seemed to be a lack of co-ordination between the Home and New Zealand! churches. The time would come when they must appoint a paid agent. The Rev. E. Jeffreys stated that it looked as if the Salvation Army was the State church, as ite officers were: the only church, representatives allowed on board before steamers reached the wharves. A motion was adopted, urging on the Home churches to notify the arrival of their members.