NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13567, 7 November 1912, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

To-night's parado for Senior Cadet Company No 52 has been cancelled.

Tho Motueka Tennis Club played tlio first match of the season on Saturday last (writes our correspondent) when they met and defeated the Itiwaka Central Club by ten sets to six. Tho match \va, s played on the Motueka Club's courts <afid was very evenly contested, tho ladies of tho home club being s.iglitJy superior to the. visitors. Afternoon tea was provided by the Motueka ladies, and as tht> weather was perfect, a pleasant afternoon's .sport was enjoyed both by tho players and the onlookers.

A Wanganui telegram states that tho date of tho Now Zealand Swimming championships have been altered, the revised dates being February 3rd to 10th inclusive.

Among the presents received by a bridal party in the Eketahuna district was a thousand bricks and two sets of flat iz-ons.

The German Government proposes to fight Standard Oil with State Socialism, by making petroleum' practically a State monopoly, four-fifths of tho profits being taken by the State for social purposes.

The secretary of the Nelson branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute informs us that the ballot for two delegates to the forthcoming Dominion conference resulted in the election of Messrs W. A. Rumbold (Granity). and P. J. Griffin, B.A. /Motueka).

In a Supreme Court action before His Honour Mr. Jtistice Chapman yesterday some discussion 'took place as to the meaning of membership, of'the Church of England. Conns clcontcnded that in England the qualification was baptism, confirmation, and being a communicant of the Church. 'His Honour doubted whether the English definition applied to New Zealand and stated that he had considerable doubt as to ■ what, did constitute membership here. In England, membership- of the Church of England was an important matter, as it gave a legal statusy but that was perhaps not so "in this Dominion; His Honour mentioned that he himself was tho only member '■ of the judicial bench of the .New Zealand Supremo Court who was a member of the- 'Church of England.