LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cabled news from Sydney to-day mentions the arrival there of Dr. Truby King, who is en route to New Zealand.

A Sydney cable message announces Ihe arrival at that port yesterday of the s.s. Abcana, from Auckland.

The meeting addressed by Mr F. Murdoch in the Town Hall last night was the largest ever seen in Whangarei. It was orderly and cordial towards the candidate.

A labour rally was held at the corner of Rust Lane and Bank street last night after Mr F. Murdoch's meeting in the Town Hall. Addresses urging the consolidation of the Labour vote were delivered by Messrs Price, Beary, Alexander and Brainsbv.

The Pacific Cable Board notifies that the delay on deferred traffic to the United Kingdom is now nine to ten days and liable to increase further. Deferred traffic can only be accepted subject to heavy delay. The delay on traffic to America is over three days.

At the time of going to press the world has not come to an end, as was predicted for the 17th by a certain Michigan professor, but appeared to be moving along serenely in the old, accustomed way; even the occurrence of the political poll in Whangarei did not scorn to have shifted the earth very far oft! its axis. Regarding the startling prediction of the alarmist professor, Sir Oliver Lodge is reported by cable to have said: "The statement is 'bosb.' Tho, position which the planets will reach on Wednesday recurs about once in a century and nothing happens.''