TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8196, 30 January 1907, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. The charge against James Ryan, of behaving in a threatening manner towards the referee in a football match in July last has been withdrawn. The police had several witnesses, but owing to the lapse, of time many were unable to identify tlie accused. For the defence it was allegd that Ryan was not the | man. Dr. McArthur, S.M., ob- . served that if it was proved to him ; that any man did create these dis- j tnrbanees, he would- deal severely ! with him. j WINTON, Jan. 29. | Several bookmakers have been lined £.j each for trespassing on the Winton racecourse. Tlie Magistrate, in giving judgment, warned them that, as bookmakers seemed determined to .set the prohibition of racing clubs at defiance, he would consider the advisability of sending others who came before him to prison instead of fining them. i INVERCARGILL, Jan. 29. ; About 3 p.m. on Monday Eileen ' Gorton, aged 8, living at M.akarewa, . was going with a friend over smouldering peat and rushes, which burst into flame and set fire to her frock. She rushed to the house of her grandmother, who tore off the burning clothes, but, though two doctors were sent for, the child died at 9 p.m. ASHBURTON, Jan. 29. Mr A. J. Roberts, of Westerlield, : has purchased the homestead block of Teviot station, near Roxburgh, ; Otago. The ' property comprises 12,44."j acres of freehold, with buildings, also 19,000 acres pastoral leasehold', 20,000 sheep. 360 head of cattle, ; 80 horses, implements and plant. The price is between £60,000 and £70,000. > DUNEDIN. Jan. 29. | It was decided at the Anglican j Synod thai a commission be appoint- j ed to consider and report to next j session whether it is expedient to j constitute one of the existing sees ; a Metropolitan See of New Zealand; j whether the title of Archbishop and | Primate should be substituted for j that of Primate; and whether anjr j improvement can be made in the pre- j sent system of electing the Primate. The Synod, on the motion of Mr I Jas. Allen, entered its solemn pro- 1 test against any tampering with tlie j religious character of any trust com- } mit-ted to its care, and in particular j against the unwarrantable interfer- j ence of the Separate Endowed Schools j Bill. An attack on any particular j endowments meant an attack on the j whole, system of endowments. The j Bishop of Wellington said 'there was I no excuse whatever for an attack on the school trusts of Wanganui and To A.ute, the two schools threatened,

■:j it was admitted that they were faithfully fulfilling the objects for which they were founded