LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10956, 26 April 1907, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) , AUCKLAND, last night. Some . remarks' on public moral, and economics and what he termed the decay in home life were made by Bishop Neligan this afternoon at the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection oi Women and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The report of the society showed that during the past year 268 cases, including domestic infelicity, affiliation cases, and cruelty to younsj children, failure to 'support parents, and similar' matters, had been dealt with. In .1905 tlie number was 256, and in 1906 it was 245. >lt seemed; 'he' said, that the proportion of such cases was altogether too large, when the population of Auckland was taken into account. 'It wus a feeble argument , to say that the number in Auckland compared very favorably with the Old-Country, for the opportunities of healthy development of public morality there were not so great as in New Zealand. He spoke of cases of cruelty to young children, and said that tlie increase of affiliation cases was becoming a serious matter. Tlie refusal of persons in many cases tc- 'support their parents was also commented upon as an extraordinary offence. He urged as a means of combating these growing evils tliat ©very effort should be made to raise the tone of the home life us much as possible, as he feared that in a large number of the cases refeired to the cause was decay in home life. Referring to New Zealand legislation he feared tliat the laws had not produced the result that their advocates had hoped for. They could not be said to make people moral by economic means. They could help "them," he admitted, but right down at the bottom of any measures for the betterment of any people lay the great question of morality in tlie national life. WELLINGTON, last night • Since the beginning of March the Wellington Submarine Mining Volunteers have been. on strike on account. of dissatisfaction with the management of tlie company's affairs by the officer commanding. In that month they" wrote to this •officer detailing their grievances, and asking that the letter be forwarded to the officer commanding the district, with a request that an enquiry be held into the matter. Nothing more was heard of tliat letter. The men determined to stay away from parade until the inquiry was held, and did so. The Defence Department did nothing until a few days ago, when it issued an order for tho company to parade to-night to receive tbe engineers' shield lately won by it. It was felt that this was the crucial point in tho mutiny, and much interest was taken in the matter. At tlie appointed time 43 men appeared on parade out of 80 odd in the corps. Tlie Inspector-General, Colonel Davies, sternly addressed the men, and then ordered those who intended to obey orders in future to march forward. Tho whole number thereupon marched forward. It is probable that the mutiny has now ended. A cable message has been sent to tlie authorities at Monte Video respecting the arrest of D. 0. Mclntvre. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A warrant for tlie arrest of D. C. McIntyrc, ex-director of exhibits and superintendent of awards at the International Exhibit ion, was issued this afternoon bv Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., the charge beii;g that of failing' to .account for £35 space money, and extradition proceedings are now being taken on the warrant. Other similar charges may be laid when Mclntyre arrives here.