TELEGRAPHIC

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4103, 16 July 1900, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC

PEESB ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, July 14. At a meeting cf the Temperance party last evening the following resolution was carried : —''That this meeting of temperance workers desires to express its strongest disapproval of the proposed introduction of licenses for the sale of intoxicants into the King Country/believing that it will be detrimental to the physical, moral and social development o? fhe native race.' AUCKLAND. Sunday. . A deputation ot over twenty Waikato Maori chiefs leaves for Wellington on Monday' to interview Ministers in support of Mr Henaro Kaihaus Native Land Bill, as opposedto wio Bill supported by Mr Hone Heke. CHRISTCHURCH, July 14. The Christchurch Chamber of Commerce has decided to support the Greymouth Chamber in procuring a- reduction in the cost of telegrams to a halfpenny on each extra word. Jul.y 15. The coal famine in Christchurch is now very’ acute, and great difficulty is experienced in obtaining even the smallest of supplies ior household use. At a meeting of a special committee of tile Amateur Athletic Association and the masters of schools in North Canterbury' district it was decided to form a Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association. A woman named Mary Jane Kibblewhite, wife of a stoker at the gasworks, died suddenly' yesterday. At the inquest the medical evidence showed that death was dire to. fatty degeneration of the heart. NEW PLYMOUTH, July To. On Saturday an elderly’ man named Patrick Cochrane, a- farmer, living near Urenui, while trying to hold a sheep, foil, and when picked up life was ’ extinct. GISBORNE, July 14. • The number of sheep in this district has doubled during the past ton years, being now 1,172,399, an increase on the figures of the previous year of 39,803. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce motions were passed co-operating with the Wellington: Chamber of Commerce in urging upon the Government the rapid completion of the North Island Main. Trunk railway. The establishment of a Land Board for this district and the completion of a. stock track to Rotorua were also favoured.