DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 18, 18 May 1912, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

Nelson, May Hi

The Hon. H. G. Ell, PostmasterGeneral, lias been visiting this district during the lait two days, and has received deputations .011 departmental matters at Nelson and Richmond. Tlie

Postmaster'-CbfieraiPwlrb is accompanied liy Mr D. Rtipert'sbn, secretary of the Post Office; leaves for Blenheim

in tfac morning, i Christchurch, May 10

Work mi the Lake Coleridge hytlroelcctric scheme is proceeding steadily. The limne] is in 200 feet, 60 feet from the main ventilating shaft, which is now down 61 feet. The water supply is well forward, and excavation for the reservoir is proceeding.

A conference of the Society of Friends, uliie'a has been sitting in Christchurch during the last few days, closed to-night with an address given liy Miss Margaret Thorp, of Liverpool, on the Young Friends' movement in Great Britain, at Woodbrook and Swanwich settlements. It was shown that there was a general and deeprooted desire on the part of the younger portion of the society to realise to tlhe fullest extent the life of spiritual power which so distinguished the founders of the society, and their true followers in later history. Other speakers Followed, showing how a wave of new life was spreading to the Southern Hemisphere, and all wcrr urged to do their share in helping its advance.

Invcrcargill, May 16

The Hon. A. M. Myers paid a flying visit to Ir.vercargil] to-day by special train, accompanied by Mr T. Ronayne /general manager), Mr 11. li. Jackson (loco, engineer), Mr A. J. McCmlie (district engin.ee!'), Mr C. A. Piper (traffic superintendent), and Mr H. MacAnclrew (district engineer). The party inspected the powollising plant at Kew, whore the sleepers undergo a process. Dining the afternoon Mr "Myers received a number of deputations, and in response to one from the Chamber of Commerce, announced that the new time-table- for the Bluff section would come into operation on Jnlv Ist.

Auckland. May 17

Three hundred pounds belonging to the Railway Department, being son I from one of the small stations between Ohakune and Tanmarunni for banking ourposrs, disappeared. The (jii£i]i and cheques were in a box. which, on arrival ,it Tainnarnnui, was found to ho empty. The affair Is a complete jt■ > tery. Archibald Clark, a well known coastal skip])er, was found drnwnetl in the harbour Ibis morning. Wellington, May 17. The labour union secretaries stale thai a wrong impression is being created regarding lb:- labour market. -Judging by their experience they consider the outlook for the winter not promising. Tic League Football organisers state Ilia! they have enough members in Wellington to put three teams in Ibe held. Dunedin, Ma\ I". At the instance of the Crown Prosecutor the case against Margaret Parker for sly-grog soiling in which two juries failed to agree was ordered to stand over till next sitting.