LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 30 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Grey Lynn ratepayers carried a,proposal yesterday to amalgamate with Auckland. Out of 1504 votes polled the majority tor the proposal was 633. A poll yesterday at Wanganui on a proposal by the Harbor Board to raise a loan of £loo,ooo to complete the harbor scheme was carried by 1503 to 61. The Board v. ill immediately gable ty Enguuid for , an up-to-dat e dredge, which has been selected already, and proceed with the construction of wharfage accommodation and a floating basin. Following i;j the latest score in the billiard match proceeding in London: Stevenson 12,66?, Gray 76-13. P. A. The Women's Folitieal Association in Melbourne severely criticised the Premiers' Conference for refusing to discuss the white slave traffic, and eventually cai ried the following resolution:—"That, as the State Premiers did not consider the protection of the honor of Australian girlhood of sufficient importance for discussion at the recent conference, this association resolves to concentrate on the work oJ getting women into every Parliament, in Australia, so that they may be abk' to fight for legislation to protect their own sex; and this association therefore takes as its watchword, "Women in Parliament."

The Rev. F. L. Nunn, who has just returned to Australia from five years of church work in India, is of the opinion that, generally, Hindus are loyal to the British Crown. "The disloyal section,*' said Mr Nunn to a Sydney Daily Telegraph representative, "is very small, and confined principally to Bengal." The vast majority were intensely loyal, added Mr Nunn, because they fully realised that now and for many yeiffs to come the -British Government was the only Power that could do India any permanent good. The time was not ripe for India to become self-govern-ing, and any movement at present in that direction which might be consummated would only bring with it chaos where now there was order, and, in addition, would possibly set back the clock oi civilisation more than a hundred years.

Recently it was stated that Mr H. C. Oliverson, of London, had contributed £30,000 to cover the cost of a chapel for the Church of England Grammar School in Perth, West Australia. He was appealed to a couple of years previously to give a donation towards the cost of the proposed building, and he expressed a wish to contribute the full amount. Last mouth the chapel was consecrated; and on the following Sunday special services were held, attended by a large number of others interested in the chapel. These had around them during the services, as an expression cf the generosity of another, the most beautiful building of its kind in Australia, and. the extent to which they were prepared to follow his example was shown by the 80 sixpences and 2-10 three-penny pieces put in the collection plate. The total amount of their donations was less than.£lo. This result (remarks an Australian paper) will form an interesting item of information for the man who thought £30,000 was not too much for such an object.