TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19009, 3 November 1923, Page 15

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb Untied Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 2. Sir Francis Bell says the Government trusts that all who are unable to attend church on Armistice Day will in accordance with the precedence followed since 1913 observe solemn silence for two minutet at 11 a.m. on that date. At the first meeting of the Maori Ethnological Board a sub-committee was set up, consisting of Sir Maui Pomare, the Hon. A. T. Ngata, Mr Elsdon Best, and Dr Buck, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it will be possible to fit oui an expedition to the Pacific Jslands, especially Tahiti and Raiatea. HOKITIKA, November 2 Yesterday afternoon, at Waitaha Bluff, a successful blasting operation resulted in the removal of the face of a steep hillside to enable the tramway of Messrs Stuart arid Chapman (Ltd.) to bo carried on. About five hundredweight of gelignite was used. A representative of Messrs Nobels (Ltd.) is supervising the tramway, winch now extendiTto miles from the Ross Railway Station, and includes the predion of bridges over the Mikonui and Waitaha Rivers. The tramway is now within 20 chains of the magnificent forest of Waitaha, over which the company holds the sawmill area licenses. CHRISTCHURCH, November 2. In the Lyttelton Police Court to-day ■Michael Downey, a slowaway on the Waitorno, from Newcastle, was fined £5, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. ASHBURTON. November 2. William Fitzgerald, a Wokanui farmer, charged with driving a horse and gig at night time without lights, and taking two gallons of w’hisky into a, dry area without notifying the vendor, and also exposing licit!or for sale in the dry district of Ashburton, was fined £SO (the maximum) and costs. The Ashburton County Council, which is one of the most enterprising tree planting bodies in the dominion, received a warning from the rabbit insnector to-dav of a prosecution unless a better effort is made to destroy the rabbts which infest the plantations. The council will probably ar 'range with the inspector and adjoining settlers for a rabbit and bare drive.