DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1913, Page 3

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

I [Pbess Association.] j I FEILDING, June 17. I » A mysterious fire completely dcs- ; c troyed a. shed belonging to J. Matj': thews at Mt. Stewart, a quantity of i \ chaff, and a five-seater motor-car, the | < property of Alf. Matthews, of | \ Wanganui. The insurances, if any, % '■■ are unascertainable.

» The passive registers were more ■ than usually aggressive in their utterances at last Sunday night's meeting in Christchurch. Mr E. J. Howard said, that just as the Ward Administration had been swept out of office for passing the Defence Act and giving the Dreadnought the Massey Government would be swept out for its administration of the Act. The Fisher Government in Australia had fallen by the introduction of conscription. He believed that the real ; author of the Defence -Act was the, Hon. James Allen, who had just come 1 back from England with a mandate from the moneylenders to administer, the Act up ~t<> the hilt. A youth named Denton said that if he was arrested for military detention he would give the guard an opportunity to use the bayonets on him, for he intended to escape, "if possible." Passive resisters would break down military detontion by obstruction and refusal to drill. At this stage the Chairman railed, on the waterside workers of Lvt+olton to throw the next guard of officers and conscripts into IJyttelfcm Harbor. Another youth appealed to i ihp people to bring the resistors back t from military detention at the point ] of Iho bayonet. \