INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13847, 8 March 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association.

FEILDING, March 6. Municipal swimming baths, erected '■at a cost of £I6OO, were officially opened by the Mayor, Mr W. .'I. B. Trewin this afternoon.

' This district is iu need of rain. Stock is falling in price.

WELLINGTON, March 7. An ordination : service was held iu Wesley Church, Tarauaki Street, this afternoon, when threo young ministers —Revs. O. F. Copeland of Eltliam, A. C. R. Anderson, M.A., of Mosgiel, ami R. Richards, of Malvern—who have, finished their probation wen- ordained into the ministry of this Methodist Church. . The service was conducted' by the president, Rov. Thomas Fee,, assisted by several ex-presidents. Rot. ('. E. Bcecroft, last year's president, delivered the ordination charge. CII RISTCHtJRCH, March 6. Ait informal-ion has been laid against a local bookseller to-day on a charge of selling an indecent postcard. JN VER-OARGILL, March 7. The Hospital Saturday collection for Southland hospital was taken up yesterday, and ; the amount announced to dale in about £OSO. There are several country lists .-yet to come iu, Hiid it is calculated that the grand total will be £7OO. Of thin a molt lit small percentages are to lip set aside for the .Vie* toria • ttonie for friendless girls, ihe Bluff Sailors' Rest., foi;. the,/ Prisoners A)d Society, aiul ,tlis Sixpenny Clothing C'fiib, leaving 70 jjor.,ce|jt i for the addition of., a, children's , ward to tlie hospital. Tliis is. the second of .such'collections here. Last year the total was £ll7B. , , - „,:v ' ~ .