NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Tclci-rac'li.—Press Association.) RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE. . UNUSUAL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. Duncdin, November 21. A. matter affecting tho question qf religious observance was argued liefore- Mr: Justice Williams in the Supremo Court this morning, John jamieson asks for the removal of church trustees and the ap'pain't'meSSt of .new ones on the ground that part of the service required worshippers to st-ahd during prayer, and io sit -.vhiio singing. Under the title deeds, i'F -at*tempts are made, to introduce innovations by instrumental music of otherwise the .property re-verts to the objectors. Some j'fla-rS ag.o » .majority of the congregation reversed th,o order of ■sitting and and. standing, to which the plaintiff objects. The question turns on the interpretation of the deeds. Judgment was reserved. IMMIGRANTS. ■ Dunedin, November 21. About 102 immigrants arrived l),$ f the Turakina from London to-day. Most of them have como to join relatives, The destinations arc as followDunedin, Lyttelton, 31; Wellington, 16; Auckland, 13: Gisborne, 11; Napier, 1 ; Now Plymouth, 13; Waiiganiii, 5; Timarii, 1; Pioton, 2. WAN CAN UI ITEMS. Wa.nganul, November 21. A somewhat heavy shock -of earthquake w;i.s felt at 7.35 this evening. ' ' The police are informed that the house of George Edwards, storekeeper, ] at Dilrfe Hill, was eu-tofed yesterday, j and £37 stolen. .Mr, Edward's and iiis wife were -at -the show. A CORRECTION', Palmerston N,, November 2-1. In a Press Association message yesterday stating, in the annual report of the M'aiiawn-tu Philosophical Society, that Mr. 11. M/Nab had been SUCC.&S'S* ! ful ill discovering certaii-i bags of . original historical documents at Sydney, a mistake occurred. ■ As n matter of 'fact Mr. M'Nab had been permitted, through tho. kindness of tho authorities, to investigate 163 sacks of material which hjd been discovered in the last few years. DIVORCE CASE. Auckland, November 21. In the Supremo Court a decfoo nisi wfrs granted ill tho -divorce caso Ivmnja Maud Saunders v. Daniel George Saunders; on tlio gi-aun.d of misconduct. THREE SERIOUS OFFENCES. Blenheim, November 21. At tho Supremo Court, Edward A.vlmcr Teraitgo Kenny, on charge af perjury, breaking and entering, and theft, was sentenced to twelve months' reformative treatment. P. & T. OFFICERS. Dunedin, November 21. A representative meeting of the Dttti. edit) branch of tho Post iwid Telegraph Officers' Association was held to-iiigl.it, when tho following resolution was passed:—"That tho Commissioners, having announced that tho criticism of tho classification list is regarded by them as an impeachment, and that such impeachment is backed up by facts that would not ho admissible, this branch has no option biit to support the action of tho conference, which was called for the express purpose of discussing the list." ' A further resolution was carried, with the object- of correcting 1 ajt erroneous tifrprffssio-n created by tlio Hon. A. L. Berdmiui's figures iii connection with the number of appeals lodged by officers of tire Post aivd Tele-. graph Department, and by t'lie recently- j classified Civil Servants. _ A table .of comparisons is contained in the resolii- \ tio.ii showing that when tlie Post and I'eiegraph classification list- was Jii-O" dueed ill 1891, 1 tho percontagii of appeals was 17.24, When the Public Service classification list was introduced this year the pe-rceii-tago of appeals was 29.95 iii excess of the .12.71, as coinpared with the original list. During thft ten years immediately preceding tlio appointment of tho Commissioners, tlio total immbcr of Post and Telegraph appeals was 120, as against -161 in 1013. T'heso figures, it .is stated, wern obtained from the Departmental annual 1 'u "•