TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1916, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

— Ll'Ell rilEbS ASSOCIATION, i RU'A THE KAISER. Auckland, This -Uay. The Maori prophet Rua, who ;it various times; litis ■caused disturbances in the Urowera country, was sentenced at Whakatane to pay a niie and nine months' imprisonment on charges oi supplying liquor to natives. Rua ; i not appear in anancr to tho charges, and iiistructiono have been issued lor his arrest. Rim has assumed the title o "Raiser,'' and lias promised the natives a great time w lion uie country \s in the hands ol tiie Germans, with tiio result that it is practically impossible Ci got a Maori within iiis influence iO enlist. A SOLDIER KILLED. Wellington, This Day. A soldier returning to Trentham Camp> Irom the city last night and fell | oil a train «>*. £la.vwurd t> crossing uud | was Killed outright. Tiie muiie in the I hat was "G. E. Aitchiuson, 12idi Rim:; forcemeiiLs." LEVIN-GREATER Ri) U A ILWAY. i 1 ox ton, This Day. At a special meeting oi the Borough Count'd last night a motion was passed that a. conference oi delegates from local bodies between hena ami Taihape be held to discuss the steps to be taken re the plan-nig oi evulcnce beiore a Royal Conimission that has been appointed to deal with the linking up or the Main Tiunk line between Marton and Levin, ana the extension of the fcsamion tramway to J3ulis. The conference is to be held in Foxi.on on February sth, and .-Messrs Newman, Field Guthrie and Smith, M's.f. will be invited to attend.