NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

, (By ToleEranh.—Press Association.r - ' NAPIER BOROUGH COUNCIL SIX SEATS VACANT. - j Napier, February 7. ; -Theborough' solicitors' have;- advised, i-s: the Mayor that five councillors,; ia ad-"' dition to Mr; Thomson, , namely, Messrs. • I Crowley, :. A..- J.- : Williams, Eagleton, ■}'. Widerstrom, and-K. Beechanv have' ren- it dered their seats' vacant by having, ex- ' .ceeded the ' legal'-limitationv,ini.ithe - mat ;%•?/ ter of •supplies- to'. the 1 corporation. ; -Hence- the council.-will be in- the, re-. 1 " """Ji i D ' e P os 'ti on ' -Of 'having • no', quorum ,- Juntil the'vacancies are filled by the'nro--X f' cess of election. ' .t- : ; • '

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. - FOUNDATION-STONE LAID. 1 ' Timaru,.February 6. v' . The foundation-stone of the new-Sacred : Heart Church was laid, this afternoon by insnop Grimes., There was a 1 very large X - attendance ;of members - of:.'the : -fioman Oatholic Church and the, public. After the procession, which. included a great v nuhiber of clergy .and'members of .the•' Hibernian- his lordship laid .the' stone with -all due ceremony; - Addresses followed- by v the ■ Kev.\ .Father' Tubmain > (viear -of the parish),' Bishop Grimev and ■! others, and a special collection which was • > i wken realised a large,sum.',The:church ; will, cost finished,' and 'is to '" . .be built: of concre' ■. \rith' Oamaru stoas A facings and- ornamu ix ' / -' ' ■ . • OVERWEIGHT GRAIN SACKS. V AND RAILWAY HATES. , * .4 . . .. Oamar.u,.February. 6. At a meeting, of the' Chamber "of Com.' V merce. it was- decided ,to communicate with : other • chambers* to -secure', a' substitution':: by.: the Department'of. a''fixed.' rate'-'foi'.. penalties on overweight grain sacks in-' r ' stead of four times'the' ordinary- freight • as at present... .-v ; .. ■-. . •..: !■ ■■ ■ BURNING A SCHOOLROOM. • ; Walroa,. February. 7. .What is considered to have been ad> ' liberate, attempt; to burn Si Andrew 1 '• Schoolroom' was discovered early ion Sai v urday morning by a local ? solicitor, \whi y'.\ " on passing the building, found a boi ia ■' the porch burning fiercely..'iiLside.' i "lt"waa standing ion the top of akeroscnecase, and in 'ten _minutes''the ;,bufldingwould . \C : have been "in 'fiambe,' involving- a new • ' church close at hand,, also .private' dwell- -r.i ingsr: Incendiarism : is':, strongly, "suspected, f-.". 1 STRIKE AT TOKOMARU BAY. ' Gisborne, February^.'. -• i '■' -Twenty-seven-:,Europeans. employed:; in-; :-f;.' the construction' of the freezing l - works • *! at Tokomaru Bay by Bull Bros., contajj-,.. tors for-the buildiiig, struck this inornibg for,aiir incite,.fiom fight: to. nine;shil-,i ;-i lings'.a day.;A number of. Natives also ' .employed'on the. job" , failed-to : tuxK up. .; ' iThe,contractors.anticipate no aifficutty.u>:: • finding then; ■ v i; ' T-; i' MANAWATU RIVER EROSION. Palmfirston,-February 7. r i-. t . .The Manawatu Golf Club's links on ■ the banks. of the .ITanawatu River -ai« . amongst; the. properties, threatenedVby , ; th»v: -. l", erosion , of the : river, .'and the . golf club i-'H'ir- - has arranged , that , a deputation shall; ,*~ wait oii ,:,the .• Borough . Council to i. urga,;7l> 'K.; that, the:- stop-bank .be.,maintained, iand--:." '; that a:report, from'.the;Government■ en« . :; [ . . gihecr. bo proa'ured." \ Pf,

INVERCARGILL TRAMWAYS. ' . ■■■:■ Christchurch, ■ ' ■ Mr.. Scott'- Symiiijton,' eniineeir.' .of thf - Christchurch Tramway BoaM>'w& granteT ii: ' A> leave by; the board to'meet a special■' ■r , committee'.set up; by,. ,the ; Inve^cargifl.'i Council.; to' advise'.'..regarding. . a ' power . \ Scheme':' for : tile .-Invercaxgill' , tramways... \ : 1 ■'

i ALLEGED DISERTION- ' ' Dunedin, February 5. ' Thomas Dicks, who deserted from E.M S Encounter on August 16, was r* j manded to appear in Auckland on February U. ' |- , ' ,