TELEGRAMS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10966, 4 June 1903, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

J'„ (Pet United Press Association.) , CURTAILING PUBLIC WORKS' • EXPENDITURE. HOKITIKA, June 3. Mr Seddon was interviewed by the Westland County Council last evening in reference. JjOvtupuniber ot urgent matters. In his reply the Premier said the total amount for public works for the next year would be -42200,000, against .£500,000 last year, and there would have to be a curtailment all round. LICENSING COMMITTEES. CHRISTCHURCH, June 3. In the Selwyn Licensing District, where reduction was carried, the Licensing Committee to-day refused applications tor the renewal of the licenses of the Terminus Hotel at West Oxford and the Glen-Tunnel. Fourteen licenses were renewed. The Christchurch Licensing Committee sat to-day. All licenses were renewed' with the exception of the Wellington Hotel. This application was adjourned until next week, when evidence will be taken regarding the mismanagement of the hotel. A petition signed by nearly 800 persons was presented praying for ten o'clock closing j of hotels, but the Committee decided in fovour of 11 o'clock closing. • NELSON, June 3. The Motneka Licensing Committee granted all applications for renewal, but in some cases minor repairs were ordered. The Hawke's Bay Licensing Committee j met to-day, when they received a deputation representing a meeting held in favour of 30 o!clock licenses. The Committee decided to , grant' 11 o'clock licenses, and also granted the applications for renewals to all the present houses. The police report was a favourable one. NO-LICENSE CONVENTION. AUCKLAND,* June 3. The No-liconse Convention passed resolutions condemning sly grog-selling in the King Country ; recommending the temperance party to try to effect a change in the law making a four-seventh's majority sufficient to carry prohibition instead of threeiifths; reerretting the Premier's expression of approval of the 'abolition of eleotive Licensing Committees ; and opposing the extension of time between the licensing polls. PALMERSTON N., June 3. At the No-license Conference to-day, the following ' were elected to the Divisional Executive: — Wellington City; A. R. Atkinson, 'A. Thompson, and W. J. Helyer; Newtown, G\ B. Nicholls; Hutt, G. D. Mc,Ewan; Otaki, Rev. Wrigley; Pahiatua, W. 11. Hawkins; Wanganui, W. G. Bassett; Oroua, Rev. Henderson ; Rangitikei, G., W. J>. "Morris; Padmerston, M.. .Henry (convener); Manawatu, Ray. Doull; Napier, Rev. Miller ; Taranaki, Mr Maunder ; Egmont, Rev. Garlick; Hawera, E. Dixon; Patea, R. H. Robinson ; Hawke's Bay, Key. _ Cowrie; Waipawa, Canon "Webb; Waiapu Rev. Patterson. Secretaries, Rev. Lawry and Mr H. 1). Whitohead. Treasurer, Mr E. Grove. Later. The No-license Conference resumed today. Speakinof on the' irregularities of the local option poll, Mr 'A. R. Atkinson said that the recent upsetting of the Newtown and Bruce elecions proved that there was needed some .higher authoriativ and more independent man than a magistrate. The following resolution was carried: "That (Whereas the verdict of the people, recorded for no-license by the necessary three-fifths majority in Bruce and Newtown. has been upset upon grounds which reJated solely to the default of officials conducting the polls, had nothing* to do with the merits of the questions at) issue, and would eonally have invalidated any election ever > held, be it resolved that the present procedure for inquiry into the result of a local option poll should be 'forthwith amended so that no poll shall be upset unless it be shown that but for proved irregularities the result have been different, and that in the event of any poll being declared void a new poll shall immediately thereupon be taken in the district concerned."

Resolutions w6re also passed protesting against the extension of time between the taking of the local option poll ; in favour of temperance teaching in schools; and thanking the Government for doing what they could to make the no-license poll effective by refusing to charter a club and closing the railway refreshment rooms at Aushburton.

At a public meeting in the evening, a resolution was carried to the effect that the Conference regretted that the liquor party had been enabled to upset by means of legal technicalities the will of the people in two places, and requesting Parliament to take immediate steps to safeguard decisions $0 pronounced, and to enable ( the fate of the Jiquor traffic to be decided on its merlTs.

A PLUCKY POLICE OFFICER. , NAPIER, June 3.

%n accident occurred at the Waipnwa Railway Station this morninjr. As tlio train was starting south an elderly woman, named Mary Mor-an, who was oust gettotftgy'oJE ,the train, "slipped, and fell on the line, lout Sergeant McKelvey caiifflit hold of her as she fell and pluckily hold her against'the plat-form while five carriaages passed, thouph he sustained several severe bruises on his hands in doing so. The woman was at once' conveyed to Dr Reed's residence, where it was foWnd s,he had sustained a fracture of one .leg-and-one faojt had been crushed .,.,., The woman is now doing well. TRAINING OUR DAIRY EXPERTS. BFNEDIN, June 2. At the opening of the show to-day, the Hon. Mr Duncan, referring to the departure of Mr Kinsella, head of the Dairy Dopartment, said the question was under consideration whether it- would not be better instead of sending Home for exports that they should choose a few of the best young men in the industry in the colony and send them to Denmark, Canada and other dairying countries to learn the newest and best methods with a view to their introduction into this colony. Men tiained in this way would bfl more likely to remain in \hc. colony than those brought from a distance. Tli" Unlucky Boy is always getting his fingers burnt," his hand cut or his shoulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm in the hon«r. Tin's is a- liniment of superior merit. One -application gives relief. Try it, — United Farmers' Co.-op. Association sell? ,it._ s „'; ' „, *'*..•