News in Brief.

Southern Cross, Volume 18, Issue 8, 11 June 1910, Page 11

News in Brief.

A tender has been accepted for a building for the Y.M.C.A. A Japanese officer is organising a trip to the South Pole. A Sydney company has secured an order for “25000 lb of tinned rabbits for the British Navy.

German immigrants like Queensland. Another batch of 237 has just reached Bi isbane.

Italy has been the scene of severe earthquakes Seventeen towns and villages were damaged, and 30 persons killed.

Great dissatisfaction exists in the railway service over the new regulations recently gazetted, and the subject will be threshed out at the conference to be held in Wellington. Lord Plunket left R.Z. for - Australia on Tuesday. His successor, Lord Islington, is due here on the 22nd. Sir Robert Stout has been sworn-in as Acting-Governor. The Rev. J. W. Shaw, assistant pastor of Knox church, Dunedin, has accepted a call to Knox Church, Invercargill, in succession to Dr. Dunlop. Mr G. Ell, M.P., intends to introduce a. bill into the R.Z. Parliament providing for the gradual abolition of barmaids.

Mr Fisher, Premier of the Australian Commonwealth, dealing with a petition from the Wagga Labour League to substitute a Federal lottery for TattersaH’s, said it was not worth while bothering about. Three thousand members of the Church Association (London) and the Methodist Conference at Adelaide have protested against altering the King’s Accession Oath in any way that would relax the safeguards ensuring the Protestant succession to the Throne.

Mr Roosevelt has been denounced as a “bloodthirsty butcher” by the Rationalists of Egypt because he praised British rule and advised the adoption of a firm Policy. A young man named Albert McQueen has been remanded on a charge of assaulting a girl in the Queen’s Park, Invercargill, while on her way to work on the morning ot 2nd June.

A recent Papal encyclical denouncing Protestant reformers has excited strong- feeling in Germany, and meetings of protest are being held. The election of Mr John Mitchell to the Mayoralty of South Invercargill left a vacancy in the council. Three candidates came out, with the following result :—Perkins, William John, 68 ; Hilton, George, 18 ; Peterson, James, 3,.

The foreign consuls at Nanking, China,, are urging their subjects to leave immediately in consequence of a warning received to the effect that war is to be made on the Manchns, representing the ruling powers, Mr .John Verran, head of the Labour Cabinet of South Australia, is a local preacher and a Rechabite: He recently declared that the k ,|uor traffic need expect no sympathy from him.

Speaking to a motion before the Anglican Synod at Newcastle, to support no-license. The Synod was not a political body, and for any such body to say it would support and vote for a man on this ground only was degrading their doctrine. The motion was rejected. Mr J. B. McKinney the general secretary of the Invercargill Y.M. C.A., addressed the men present at the Dunedin Y.M.C.A. Rooms m Sunday afternoon. His subject was "Personal Influence,” and ;t was handled in an interesting fashion, Mr W. G, Hannah also addressed ihe meeting, and gave an outline of Ids work amongst the sawmillers of Southland.

The Auckland East election will be held on 16th inst. There are two Labour candidates (Davis and McKnight), Mr Myers I Independent Liberal), Mr Richards (Prohibitionist and Protectionist), and an unofficial Oppositionist in the person of Mr R W. Hill, formerly Mr Massey’s private secretary.

The Canterbury police are scouring the country for John Trembath, who escaped from the train between Timaru and Christchurch, while on his way to prison to serve sentences of IS months and two years tor forgery and horse-stealing. The Rev. R,. M. Ryburn, pastor of the First Church, Invercargill, who is chairman of a committee set up by the Presbyterian Assembly to bring about a better understanding between organised labour and the churches, attended the last meeting of the Southland Trades and Labour Council in order to lay the matter before the members. He was cordially received and thanked for his attendance.

Receiving a deputation re unemployment, Mr Fisher, the Commonwealth Premier, said that the suggestion as to compulsory insurance against want of work was a big step, and economically speaking there was no difficulty, but the Government lacked information. This could be obtained after the next census. Fire broke out in J. Chambers and Son’s extensive premises in Dowling and High streets, Dunedin, on Tuesday night, and before it was subdued did damage estimated at about £6OOO. Messrs Chambers and Son were the heaviest losers, but a number of tenents of other parts of the building also suffered loss of, or damage to, stocks. Parliament meets on June 28, when legislation will be submitted dealing with the utilisation of water power and anti-trust measures. As the Premier puts it —‘T have had cases brought under my notice showing that in connection with the sale of oil and kerosene there are trusts ox considerable magnitude in operation. The same may be said in regard to sugar, and we must make it impossible for anyone who has the disposal of wholesome articles to compel traders to deal with him or them only.” Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P., emphatically protests against importing boy labour, and has wii’ed Sir J. 'G. Ward to that effect, stating that if the wages and other conditions are just, our own people can do the work.

One team of N.S.W. footballers beat the Maoris by 11 to nil, and another beat the English team by 27 to 20. There were 40,000 people at the English match.