TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8143, 17 November 1905, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, Nov. IG. A great crowd assembled at the Opera House to-night to listen to a debate on the No-license question between the Rev. N. A. Davis, representing the New Zealand Alliance and Mr Dbcon Ward, representing the liquor trade. The ■usual arguments for and against Nolicense were stated in a friendly manner, the audience apparently being evenly divided on the points made by the speakers. The latter were heartily cheered by their supporters, there being also at times indications of dissent. At the conclusion, an attempt by one section to sing ". Strike Out the Top Line " •was drowned by the noise made by the other section.

DUNEDIN, November 16,

Three of tho crew of the ship Loch Garve appeared in Court again, charged ■with combining to refuse duty. They had been released from custody yesterday and went aboard, but refused to turn to when asked. They were sentenced to 14 days. Christiana M. Cruielfshank, of tho Timaru High School, has been appointed lady principal of the Southland Girls' High School. Of the eighteen applicants half were ex-pupils of the Dunedin High School. Boberfc Pavfifct Neale, a 67 years old resident, died on Wednesday night at Port Chalmers while attending a prayer meeting at the Congregational Church. WELLINGTON, November 16. By the Kumara .last Sunday and by tho San Francisco mail this morning ieavy Christmas mails for Greai Britain •wore forwarded from Wellington, there were 45,298 letters, 16,866 postcards.

10,565 bocks, 132,233 newspapers, and 1289 registered letters. The newspaper mail by the Kumara weighed about ten tons. Staff-Captain K. McLeod, who'has been in charge of the Wellington Salvation Army Corps for the past two years, was accorded a send-off on Wednesday night at the Citadel, on the occasion of his transfer to Palmerston North. ' . BLENHEIM, Nov. 16. The Supreme Court was occupied to-day with the libel action George Edwarda v. S. J. Furness, proprietor of the Marlborough Express, claim £1000 damages for the publication of a paragraph reproducing from the Mercantile Gazette the notice of mortgage o£ £250 transacted by plaintiff. The jury returned with a verdict of one farthing damages, each party to- pay its own costs. PAHIATUA, Nov. 16 At the inquest on the body of a woman named Florence Gilley, who was found drownedin theMakuri river, near Tuscan Hills on the 15th inst., a verdict was returned of found drowned. It is not known whether deceased had any relations in the colony. - ■ , ■