TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10668, 12 June 1902, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

: ♦ BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. - , (Per United Press Association.) '' • OAMABU, June 10. - A plebiscite his just been taken of , the 'electors in the Oamaru electorate < on the question of the Bible in schools. , Voting papers were distributed and ' coUectea by .workers in connection with all the churches in the electorate. The votes in favour numbered 2637, and ,l37 were recorded against, whilst 85 , de-, elined to state. The number at lilt '.->, •lection was 4080, so that actually B 8 - ' per cent of those on the^roll .ire in favour of the proposal. • The jPamaru Presbytery Committee -t on * Bible ■in Schools tp-day resolved; That, , after „ , th»\mult of, the plehescite, they stroffeto recommend that a plebesc^tc be tjuEtf throughout the colony, and \i similar are obtained, 'that in eve^ t , electorate the question be made a test at next election." . The. , vote ken, it wasjrfated, was taken > wij;h , care. large number of abstinents ' from voting was due in part to only one adult in houses signing. . FROZEN MEAT AND PRODUCE.; WELLINGTON, June 11., A return of the quantity and value of froaea meat and dairy pjroduce entered for export from New Zealand last .. month shows the following totals:-!— Butter 13,136cwt, valued at £63,428; cfaees* 7663cwt, £16,652; beef 33,309 cwt, £42,413; carcases of mutton 198,466, £119,348; legs and pieces of mutton 14,351cwt, £16,148; lamb ' 91,815 cwt, £142,589. The quantity of butter sent away was nearly double that exported in -the corresponding month last year, but there was a shrinkage in cheese of about 7000cwt, as compared with May, 1901. A comparison with'" the hitter month a also ■hows about 13,000cwt cheese, about 94,000 carcases of mutton, nearly 11,000 legs and' pieces of mutton, and ' 37,000 carcases of lamb in favour' of May of the present year. A COMPENSATION CASE. J WELLINGTON, June 11. The Chief Justice gave the award of the Compensation-. Court ito-day ia the case in which Captain Popham, livery ■table-keeper, claimed £10,802 from the ■ City Council for the loss of property ' and business occasioned by the Council taking land for street widening. The award of the Court gave the claimant £3,516. ; FATAL BESULTS OF AN ACCIDENT*' PALMEBSTON N., June 11. \ Te boy Dender, who was caught in the fly-wheel of a .gas-engine yester- , day, died in the Hospital to-day.