NEW ZEALAND NEWS. (BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 405, 14 January 1909, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS. (BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. ' . !':> New Plymouth; January 13. , The total imports and exports at the Breakwater, New Plymouth, last year were 79,234 tons, as agiiinsfc \72,256 tons in 1907.. -The port; re venue was £13,458, bb against £13,206. Tho. number of passengers passing over the wharf was 41,741, as'against 46,495. : : ! TAIHAPE COTTAGE HOSPITAL. ■Talhapo, January '13. : The .question of the erection of a cottage Jiospital.- at Tailiapo lias been before -the. Wariganui' Hospital Board-for. a " long, time' past. ' The settlers offered £500 towards tho cost of -erecting tho buildingj and an annual sum . of'£loo .; towards - .maintenance.-...-'.; Thp; 'board to-day decidcd that, upon this offer being put in writing by persons whose guarantee is satisfactory to' tne board, stops Viil be taken to erect a cottage hospital at Taihapa y without delay. . PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE, .• . Auckland, January 13. The Primitive Methodist Conference rer sumed to-day. Tho report of. membership showed an increase of 87,, with an increase of 462 scholars in the Sunday-.. schools. The Revs. B. Metson, J. Harris, and C. A.'Sims were' ordained- for the full work of the ministry- "! NEWS IN BRIEF. / . . Talhaae, January 13. The Chamber of Commerce and 'the Sawmillers' Association :aro arranging ■ an: interview with,the Minister for. Railways relative to freight and-passenger traffic. ; Dunedin, - January 13. . At a conference 'of delegates .representing local bbdies to-night, Wednesday -was selected for the weekly half holiday.' ' < Temuka, January 13. > •'.A meeting was held this evening at muka to make a presentation to - Mr. VJ. Jeffries, Opposition candidate for Geraldine at the late election. The present was a purso of about 150 sovereigns. Among the speakers were Mr. Hardy, M.P., and Messrs., F. H. Smith, and W. S. Maslin (Opposition candidates at the election), and Mr. A. 13: Q.: Rhodes (n former mombor for Geraldine). The _ meeting was .very . pleasant and enthusiastic.-"" " 1 Auckland, January 13. At a meeting of-the Auckland Temperance Crusaders to-night, resolutions were carried refusing to be bound by the decision .of the temperance meeting on Tuesday night, to support the present Licensing .Committee at the forthcoming election. . It was also resolved to ask Mr. "Wm. Richardson to stand, and to support him. The man named George Al'Gurk, charged with the attempted murder of his brother-in-law, George Barrett, at Devonport, on the night of December 14 :la3t, was. to-day committed for trial.