TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

IVim I'KESS ASSOCIATION.! TO OUT THE '••PUBS.Wellington, This Day

The Post is officially advised that Mr Philip Suowdon, Socialist M.P. for Blackburn, and Airs Snowden have been engaged in connection with the coming .Nolicense campaign and will arrive here in Sept-ember. MIiMSTEP Ai\l) PBOTESSOP. oaiciiiaiiii, Uiib j./ay. *\.i me meeting ox ine .o.uckiand JL'resuyiery mo jiev. A. Aiur. lay resigned, me coiiveuersJnp or me LSursary (JoiniuiUoe on tliu ground tliat he "cannot conscientiously help students to study al a scat of learning under prolessors one ol whom declared recently tnat the (Jld Testament is not I lie \\ old oj God.'" the Kev. iSertrain objected to an attack upon the character oi men not present to defend theniselv<w. The lve.v. Murray replied that no man's character was attacked. The resignation was accepted. SUICIDE. h'rancois Joseph iiernoit, ;iu elderly man and settler ai J'apalitira, shot himself fatally while in a lit of depression. At the inquest a verdict oi suicide was returned. AC PBOPELI, BUUJvS. D lined in, this Day. At the Magistrate .s lonn tins morning i'ercivai Church, a sec-ond-hand dealer, was hued .i"0 on ' a charge of failing to Keep proper books in accordance witli the Act. A Jl.Ai\ AUSSING. Gisborue, I bis Day. Air P. fc. Whitehead, an old settler of the Atorcrc district, is missing. Do arrived ai ,Uorere from Wuiroa, by coach on Aionday afternoon, and set out to walk homo by a short cut, a distance ol six or seven miles including three miles of bush but did not reach homo. A large party is searching the bush lor the missing man, who is said to have been unwell lately. DJLUYM T'U CO-ULM-IPATI'I. Oauiaru, This Day. The householders arc agitated at the price of the lour pounds loaf which in a short tunc has risen to eightpence a loaf. As a result of a. conference between a committee of householders and the master bakers the latter oJl'ered a reduction to i-jal. The halfpenny reduction was rejected by a consumers' meeting, at which it was decided to nioel the increased cost of bread by starting a co-operative bakery. A strong committee has been set up lo give effect to the idea, and a. large number of shares were guaranteed in the room.