HASTINGS PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 175, 10 July 1919, Page 5

HASTINGS PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

Mr. P. R. Purser, Town Clerk, Hastings, has received the following telegram from Hon. G. W. Russell, regarding Peace celebrations: "Re iny telegram of the Bth, soldiers will be carried free on trains on 19th and 2lst. Children will be carried free on Monday only. Children will only he conveyed'to nearest town from their place of residence, in which celebrations will be held. No special trains can be run, and only accommodation available on the ordinary trains, can be used. It is, therefore recommended that, in every possible case, celebrations shall be local.’’

The Town Clerk has received a voluntary donation . totalling £26 from the Chinese residents oi Hastings towards the local Peace Celebrations, the following having contributed £1 each: —Willie Wong, Joe Tos. Lock Dick Lee, Kwong Num Sing, Ah Wing, Num Lee, C. How, Chin Woot, Ah Fong, W. Cheong, Willie Tien, Lum Kee, Lum Why, Lum Gee, Yee Fong, Yee Chan, Yee Chung. Dick Choy, Dang Loy, Dick Lee Quay, Lock Gun, Fang Foo Shue, Lee Gong, Jang Choy, Beiig Fong Kong, Yee Hing.

HAVELOCK NORTH. A meeting of the Pecae Celebra-1 tion Committee was held in the Town Board Office last evening. Mr. E. C. Clarkson occupied the chan, and there was a fair attendance.. Jt was decided to abandon the erection of the proposed arch near the Post Office and to concentrate on decorating the Village Square with bunting ami greenery, and illuminate the Rest House. Mr. Alan White and Mr. J. Marshall were added to the Decoration committee. The decorations will be for Saturday and Monday, July 19th and 21st. The committee will give the children a meal on the Monday before proceeding io Hastings in lorries to be provided. Arrangements are well in hand for the catering of the children in Hastings. Another committee meeting will he hekl on Monday next at 7 p.m. to further matters. ANOTHER FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. NAPIER CHILD KILLED. Another fatal accident occurred in Hastings street, Napier, at noon today, when a little boy. about years, named Thomas Isaac Butcher, whose father resides at Eltham, was run over by a motor car driven by Miss Speed.v. A motor lorry was passing the Napier South School at. the time the school children were coming out. It appears the unfortunate child ran from behind the lorry just as Miss Speedy was driving into town from the direction of Hastings. The car was going slowly at the time, and to try and save itself the child put out its hand to the car and touched the mudguard, but was thrown aside with some little force. The child was immediately picked up and conveyed to the Napier Hospital. hut died on the way. Deceased had been living with his uncle, Mr. J. E. Butcher. An inquest will be held to-morrow. LAW OF BICAMY. Wellington, July 10. The Full Court is hearing the case Re.v. versus Jackson, which involves the present position of the bigamy law in New Zealand. The Chief Justice decided that the whole law was bad and the question now before the Appeal Court is whether the whole law is bad or only that part dealing with bigamy outside New Zealand. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Macassey appear for the Crown and Sir John Fiudlay, K.C., and Mr. Jackson for accused. The Solicitor-General argues that though there can be no question of severability in the case of the Imperial Statute, yet in the Statute of subordinate legislature, a section of the Act might be devisibie provided that both in form and substance the section was capable of severability. The Court reserved its decision.