NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By Toleirranh.-Presß AMoolatlonJ' : -' '.'-■■: ..'. .'.■..[..]*.-■_''.. ...,...-. •'.;. ,: -, ; .>; \' } -:-'''>r SOUTH ISLAND ;MAIN TIIUNK;LI^Vv*^; V ( SraSTANTIAI/!Vora ASKEI) FOR. - v -l-iy-V:'; ' November! ti'V Tho suggestion of the Priin* Minister toe*;;; tablish a State-owned ■ ferry ' service between f : '■':■:- Wellington and Lyttelton was'.dismissed at •« ':■■'-; /? of the Marlborough Chamber of Com--. ,'-.-.'- merce last night, and.- the following- motion : ; passed:—"That tiiis chamber views, with", ",!: alarm tho suggestion .to' establish a State-' -~'.-; owned forry service between Wellington and; Lyttelton and. the consequent postponement;? of tho South Island Main Trunk line,- tho ;■;.■'' ..' progress of which has boon so slow; and ; do-; '.-■"■.-. sires to.impress.on the Government the neoos- : sity for the early completion of the line ih tho interest of the.district and the Dominion gen- . erally. The,.chamber.urges that a substantial; ■ sum be. placed on.the Estimates fpr an immediate extonsion of the railway." . , ,:, R*TCNG PROPOSAL. Cambridge, Nomsnjbartl.. , ' A poll,on tho question of rating on unna proved values was taken yesterday in tho Mat*" ,; ~ mota oou'nty .district' The proposal was do, ' '■.'.-•'• feated by. 270 votes to 87, after an enutinf .• campaign. .'-....' ;'..',"-■' HOUUCTDAL MANIA. ~' '' Christchurch, November 13. A young man named Charles, Brown, resioS ing with nis mother on the ££ringficld Road, at an early hour this morning? suddenly devel- ■ oped homicidal mania, and attacked his mother" with a carving-knife in a violent, determined, manner. An elder brother was present,' and saved his mother, getting a serious injury. ,Th» polico were sent for. Brown fled, and tb» police ore searching for him. -:'•■'; UNIVERSAL TRAINING. Auckland, Novombor H. The General. Council of the National TJev fonoe.League considered the Prime Minister*!. Budget Bttitemsnt on internal - defence last night, and resolved: That tho General - Conn- * oil, of the Notional Dofonco Loaguo, having considered the general proposals for universal training 6nbmittod to Parliament in the Budgot speech,' urges oU branches and individual: members of the league to exert tlioir inflneno* ■ • at this. j nnctnre in. support of tho proposals." OAMARU DREDGES. . ' ■ Oamaru, November H. As an; addendum to the; hard-fought batOo of some months; ago, in which a contest was waged.over the largo, drodgo v. small dredge issue, .and in which the big dredge proposal ,' was defeatod by a narrow margin on a vote of the ratepayers, Mr. W. H.-Eosc, who championed the small-, dredge, was on Saturday • made the recipient 'of a presentation. Mr. Rose had incurred considerable expense in th« ensuing law proceedings,.. and this was recouped to' him, and he was, besides, ' presented with a gold albert,- gold sovereign case, and inscribed gold pendant. In his. remarks he pointed out that owing to a defect in the law only ratepayers' could vote in tho county, while tlie residential qualification entitled pec pie to.vote in\towns. :'. AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. . ' Auckland, November 13. In the Supreme Court, decrees nisi w«r» granted in the following cases:—Alice Murphy' v. John Murphy, desertion and oruolty; \Alioo : Oliva Tucker v. William Henry Tucker, misconduoti John- Brunt y: Emma Ethel Brunts ' and James .White, misconduct; George Arthur Bush v,. Catherine Margaret. Bush and Arthur' T. Davies,. misconduct. ■