DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14345, 25 October 1910, Page 3

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

TOE AUCKLAND EPISCOPATE.’ Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. .Oct. 24. The special session of the Anglican Synod to deal with the appointment of a Bishop in succession to. Dr. Neligan was continued io-dav, under the presidency of the commissary (Archdeacon Colder).',,After deciding on■ the form of procedure, tho Synod went into committee, 'but no decision regarding the appointment was.arrived at. Tho Synod resumes to-morrow afternoon.A PARK FOR AUCKLAND. ' AUCKLAND Oct. 34. Tho executors of tho late J. M. M ‘Lachlan to-day conveyed to tho City of Auckland tho Cornwallis estate of 1800 acres on Manukau Harbour as a public park. The site was tho scene of tho settlement of immigrants by the ship Brilliant in 1841, among whom was Mr. M'Laohlan’s father. , ; FIRE BRIGADE’S CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, Dot. 24. The secretary of .the New Zealand Fire Brigades’ Association ptates that the executive-has decided to hold the next conference and tournament at Hokitika. THE BALLARAT CONTEST. PALMERSTON N., Oct. 24. At a meeting of the' North Island Band Contest Committee last night, the president; Mr.. J. A. Nash, moved—- “ That the N.1.8.8.A. place on record its appreciation of the meritorious wm of the Wanganui Band at Ballarat, and that a congratulatory telegram bo sent to the conductor, Mr. Wade. AFGHANS AND THEIR MISTRBSS. TEHERAN, Oct, 24., Mail advices state that two men, Oulma Homed and Dustea, are being tried at.Tatta, India, for murdering their mistress, Dost Mahomed, whp was a "West Australian. Seventeen wounds were inflicted. A CALLOUS FATHER. DUNEDIN, Oct. 24., At the Police Court George Bishop, a sturdy man who was £9O m arrears tinder a maintenance order for the support of three children in an industrial, school, was sentenced to nine months* hard labour, Mr. Widdowson, S.M., remarking that as defendant was so callous he would have to work out his indebtedness to the country, for his family’s support. Mr. Camming, of tho' Prisoners’ Society, said he never knew a man more callous and cowardly towards his children. ,