NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13537, 3 August 1914, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Prayers for peace were offered at the Cathedral and othei rburches yesterday.

The Rev. W. A. Evans,_ of Wellington, preached at the anniversary .services of tho Congregational Church yesterday. -

Week-end cable messages for places oh the Continent of Europe other than Belgium. Holland, and France, will bb accepted by either cable routo and posted. from London at'the same rate as English week-end messages plus a mailing fee of sd.

Mr T. A.' H. Field, Reform candidate for the Nelson seat, invites supporters of the Government to meet him at. the, Stoke Public Hall tliis evening.

Mr R. P. Hudson, Reform candidate for Motueka, will address a meeting of electors at Tapawera thiV ovening. The fortnightly pay days of .tho Nelson People's Terminating Society will this week be to-morrow and Wednesday. Tho fortnipMly meeting of th« Druids' Lodjjo iifC been postponed till Thur.Joy c~'j*lnc | '^v i?h a w;rr-; r.iy collision in Wcl•l.v, t/_.v ca . •- r i\ \ ijijiht, W.' El. Sadd jv■- 'i fc '""*•& \Tt *A by ''Token ,. k •-"*- -•=> - :~* ■ ~. - J /,' " v fecnj f'oas, "nho J!; '"" *' vL-t s . i *■* ■ •»"«.• " "■-. (^ /<,j- . >- t > i >j i i.v, ■~.'> '■-V'-yi'Jl . •■*._.£ Londo.' ' hot 'Jy. '' " «:j '".cpe the i\a ' 1?" \"i :/ L'ta't'ix* v;l" not ma criall.v >..■?'^l-,? -tba^o operalioiiS or i'.iisTfGro vitb thorn." $ Immediately on receipt of tho cable last evening announcing the declaration of war between Germany and Russia an extraordinary was issued from "The Colonist" office, and the churches were communicated with. Bulletins were posted up at this office, and were eagerly read by the public. The "Sydney Morning .Herald" and the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" take exception to a message from Sydney 1 published on July 17th. with regard to j " tho circulation of 70,113 claimed by; 1 the Sydney "Sun" as a record. They point out that the certified circulation of the "Herald" is 130,274 daily, and that of the '.'Daily Telegraph" 81,947.— Press Association. It was stated in the House on Thurs- • day. "that during the last year of the Liberal Party under Sir Joseph Ward i 1503 persons had been settled on . 472,000 acres. During the second year. .of the Massey Administration only; 1405 persons had been settled on 353,805 acres." ;

Thomas Maude, barrister and solicit tor and estate agent, of Hereford! street, Chribtchurch, was arrested on Saturday on a charge of fraudulent conversion of £1050, and subsequently appeared before Mr Bishop. S.M., and was remanded on bail. —Press Association.

1 A Press Association telegram from , Groymouth states that at Patara on Saturday a little girl about 9 years of , age, the daughter of Adam Blair, jun., i was killed by being run over by s a sawi.mill tramway truck. The weekly meetbg of the Presbyterian Literary and Debating Society was held in the class room on Tuesday evening, when there was a fair attendance of members; .- A debate-on the proposition, "That the gain,-= from Polar exploration are wo;th the losses involved," proved very successful.' Mr frwin led rfor the affirmative, and was seconded by Mr. M. Angus. For the negative, the Itev. J. V MacKenzio led and was seconded h\ Mr A. Tho;ason. Tho vote showed a majority for the affirmative.

- Hayinan Ellmers, aged 40, of Marakopa, died in the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, whero ho was being operated on for injuries which he received through the accidental discharge of his gun while ho was- out shooting In the bush.—Press Association.

A private cable from London received at Auckland states that I). Ziman has been awarded by the High Court of Justice £12,000 damages against the Consolidated "'Goldtields. Ltd., f..r breach of agreement in respect' to the sale of certain mines on the West Coast- The defendants intend to appeal.—Press' Association.

The victims who lost their lives in the Club ' Hotel fire at the Bluff on July 29th were Peter 'Moonsen,. aged 55 years, a ship!s carpenter; Fred Blucher, aged 60 years, an ex-man-o'-warsman; and T. T. Brook, aged 22 years, a fireman on the railway. They' occupied bedrooms in the destroyed hotel.

In his sermon at the. mid-day service at. the Cathedral yesterday, the Bishop of Nelson urged the claims of the Home Mission Fund, and gave an account of the difficulties with which people in the out-districts of the dioceso haye to contend. He mentioned that there would be in Nelson on. Wednesday a Loaf .which,.is to'be used i>i ministering to tho spiritual needs of people in the Sounds district.

Jhe Hons. It. MoKenzie and A. T. Maginnity, with Messrs R. Manson, J. L. Harris, and C.; E. MacShano, of the Takaka County Council, interviewed the Prime Minister in Wellington on Saturday-to advocate a £2000 grant for a new road from' Tarakohe to Awaroa and Totaranui. Mr Mkssey (telegraphs our correspondent): co«.<ld. give no promise, excepting that he would place tho representations (which were fully noted)1 before the 'Minister for Public Wiorks. :-..-.■

A horse attached to a; milk cart belonging to Mr F.* Sowman,. of, Brook street, bolt&d from Waihui street yesterday morning, and after passing through several streets" without mishap, collided with a milk cart belonging to Mr W, Moorehotivse, which was standing outside Nurse Gosling's hospital in Nile street. The collision resulted disastrously for the latter vehicle, which was badly smashed ? and the contents were spilled in all directions. Mr Sowman's cart escaped with slight damage, and neither of the horses was,injured.

-. A tender has - been - accepted by the Australian Federal Government for the erection of a new General Post Office at Perth. The contract price is £232,----000. ...

The municipal abattoir at Hokitika yds formally opened on Saturday.— Press Association.

Mr E. Short, of ••I^il'ding, the wellknown breeder of llom.'Oy Mtii-sh sheep, has accepted the offer of the Panama Exhibition Commission, asking him to act as Commissionor of Stock at the Exhibition. ,

Miss Tira Townshend, of Blenheim, who was the only one of the five New Zealanders on board the Empress of Ireland to be saved from the wreck of thai c+pamer in the St. Lawrence Riyc-?;, hns v.otrrned to New Zealand.