TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8831, 11 July 1905, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Pun Pnu.su Association.)

WELLINGTON. July 11. A large depnlalioii, represent ing t lie Nelson province, wailed on Ihe Premier tin-, Morning lo poiul onl 11n• urgent neces sit v iif extending I lie railway line an Inr ■ is' Hope, where it would tap Uio coach noil lo Huller. Mr Seddoli said tlie Kant t'uasi Nelson connection had been approved bv Parliament, and had not the contrac tors tailed, Nelson would by this limn have had connection with t lii islclnircli. 111,. grounds for makim; the connei'tion had been lengthened by time anil hy reaion el tWe crowiin; demands tor land, tint her. anil coal. Mr Seddoli expressed I lie ojnniiin t li.it the coiinlry would eventually hue to look to the Nelson district lor land for set t lenient. lie was not prepared 1,, ask the eolony to borrow more than a million a year, 'hut he agreed with the ii. cessil y for i'\li ndiii" tins I lo a pay ii.i point. and was prepared lo press that \ i '\v upon Min Khrv

AICKLAMt. July 11. Mr Kronl'ehl, an Island trader in Samoa lilt 11 a tew weeks aj;o, stales that the cable Hews is <lllile incredible, tor I lie natives were ipiii't ami everything was i|iiict. There was not. the least necessity for in oieoiii:; the military forces, and not a whisper about a native rising. The rumor probably originated from the fad. that a small sect ion opposed lh' Solfii udmiuiHlrilt ion.

WI'.STI'OItT. .1 uly 11. Tlir |" irt School (% inniiii len Imvn .!<'•'lin<'<l 111 |n'ri1lil I'.ilili' clauses ill Mchooln ruder Ihr Nelson system. us asked 1 >,\' llii' M misters' Association.

I'llr.hi.'h lll'' nmil i.i\ illlway ti loaded w:i ■ hi :i Hi I (■•urn wviv 11 ic i|>i tn I i'i I over :i •i< 1 i 11M mi tin' liiillrr road. 11111 i 111 • , 7 io led, Tin- Ih;iil iiihl ill" uaioni were iliiin-,-it.ril, lull tin' ilriwr Mini liiirw:; were mi !miit.

Worli nt lll'' Srililoiivilli' Si,'il,' colliery in U't'V slack.

gishmknv:. .Inly 11. Mr 11. 11. Wall, lu -i■ p tanner, liiim consent ed In arrept nominal ion as the Hpposilion candidate al tin 1 election. Mr 11. Iv Nl evens, another larnirr. is also ill the held. KKII,I >1 NC. .Inly 11. The l!i'V. Hugh M. Murray, aged 71, died last evening. 1 )eeensrd arrived in the colony in If)7'l, ami was inducted inlo the Presbyterian Church here in 11171). retiring after 17 years' ministry. lie was in charge of several eliun lis ill Canterbury prc\inus. lo his coming to I'cilding. NKLSt IN. .1 111 v 11.

Al- the Aiiylie.'in Diocesan Synod a. tcno lnlion was carried recognising the grcal. amount of evil result ill'.', from Iho licensed sale of aleoliolie hewrfiVcs, and expressing hearty sympathy wilh the elVorln now being' made to renieilv the evil. An uiuondnioliti siilint il uinir Ihe words "immediate uni'" for "licensed sale"found four clertry UN Klipliorlers, but the resolution, afler a warm debate, was can led, practically uiKminioUHly. the noes brine. liilenl. A proposal lo place il. on record thai, the revolution wan carried linanimotifOy «ms not. prociyiloil with as the four eliTuy objected that- Iliov were opposed lo the nioli<in in its .'lecepledl form. A resolution was also carried : ''Thai lliis Synod view; wilh alarm tlu» spread of u.iiill»l inl: and pledges ilself to do its utiiKKil lo Klein Hie evil." In t.lio course of tlie delialc, lollericN al- church bazaars, art- unions for "lijineral sprci mens." and, eenerally, lolalisalor and lief, lineal, r.'icrn, football, and cricket nialcheH were condemned as the most- prevalent, oir the Wesl. Coast. Tlio clergy bewailed thi» alinofil. universal prevalence of "l-wo-up" gambling on llio C<vin|., The Synod h/in now closed.