TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(.BY TKLEQU.ACIi —I’EU CHESS ASSOCIATION

METHODIST CENTENARY. KAEO, March 8. For the Methodist centenary, about 230 Ministers and visitors traveller from Auckland and proceeded to the Cairn where they wens welcomed and addresses were given by the natives. The President and other prominent Ministers repaired. Then the Cairn was I dedicated, followed by the unveiling of the memorial tablets with appropriate religious services. A specially designed flag, to bjecome the symbol of the Maori church, was also dedicated, and was flown from the ton of the Cairn. A foundation stone of the memorial church was laid in the afternoon. VISIT BY METHODIST CENTENARY. WELLINGTON, March 8. There wer e about 230 ministers) and visitors from Auckland visiting the historic spots at Russell yesterday, and, on arrival at Whangaron, in the afternoon they were, welcomed by the Chairman and members of the Whangaron. County Council. An address was presented by the Council, and speeches in reply given by the Persident of the Methodist Confereneo (Rev. C. 11. Laws). Rev Grainger Hargreaves, representing Britain, and Rev. A. McCnllum, representing Australia.; also spoke. In the evening largely attended meetings were held simultaneously at Kaeo and Whangaron. and commemorative addresses were given at both places. Assisting in the ceremony was Hama Potuone, lineal descendant of Chief Patnoe, who saved th 0 lives of -Missionaries Hobbs and Turner in the early deiys. He 'was also a descendant of Tama hi Wnka Nene. A touching conclusion of the\ ceremony was the greeting of Rev. T. G. Hammond, late General Superintendent of Maori Mission to Native minors, and Rev A. J. Senmer, his own successor. A feature of tu e impromptu incident was the thanks expressed to Rev Hammond by Rev R. T. D. Haddon, of Taranaki. By the invitation of the Natives, the whole company was welcomed at dinner, which was served in proper Maori fasliThe ceremony of liyying the foundation stone of the memorial church was conducted by the President.

ONE BIG UNION. WELLINGTON, March 8

Mr Gray tidier, secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, has returned from Australia, after representing the Dominion at the annual Convention of the One Big Union movement. Mr Grayndler stated that the conference, at, which the three largest industrial organisations in Australia were represented, drafted and agreed upon a constitution and general rules for governing One Big Union for the whole of the workers throughout Australia and New Zealand. The miich-tnlked-of 0. 8.U., bad therefore, now been launched, and was an established fact. The organisation represented some 200,000 workers. It would, he said, bo both a political and an industrial body. It would have one common policy, and one common fund, and, aided by a chain Labour daily papers, would strive towards the common welfare of emancipation of the workers, along constitutional lines, industrially and politically.

YOUNG CRIMINALS

SENTENCED AT AUCKLAND

AUCKLAND, March 8

A number of prisoners, all young were sentenced at the Supreme Court. Justice Herdman criticised gravely thecrimes of the young woman Annie Alc- . alkcr, who pleaded guilty in court to tnree charges of forgery and false pretences. She had falsified her employer’.! books and obtained a sum of aboufi £3OO, and also forged orders for a fair sum, said His Honour, lie would weigh the seriousness of these crimes, ami'also the fact that she had made h false accusation against a police officer, though she subsequently withdrew J. He did not think it was a case for probation. Tbc accused bad systematic illy, deliberately, nn(l persistently helped herself to her employer’s property. She would be sentenced to one year’s reformative treatment, which His Honar reminded her, was subject to the review of the Prisons Board. A youth, Clifford Double, was sentenced to six months’ lur'd labour for breaking, entering and theft at Taumnrunui. His Honor referred to the fact that the prisoner had previously been sentenced for theft and ial.se pretences, also for theft, and treated leniently. He was sentenced in the hope that the lad would come to his senses.

Six months imprisonment was imposed on Henry Samuel Barton tor false pretences at Tauranga. He had two previous convictions. John Edward Calvert, aged 19. L>r attempted false pretences was given two years’ probation A Maori Hariulia Pei, was given 18 months’ gaol for theft of a heifer- Ue committed several previous oil cnees.

MINERS’ “BACK” SATURDAY. WELLINGTON, March S i After nearly a week of consultation, round the table, between the Suite- , Coal -Miners and the officers of the j Mines Department, slated the Hon t>- | \V. Anderson (Minister of Alines) to -• j “Times” reporter to-day, “the assessors came to a decision which ,so far j as 1 know, is satisfactory to both par- ; ties. The shifts on “back” Saturdays : were agreed to as seven hours and six j hours.” A number of coal miners in various parts of the country are reported to be dissatisfied with the Arbitration Court s award of eight hour shifts on “back Saturdays. A “Times” reporter was given to understand to-day, however, that there is a likelihood of an eventual agreement being arrived at between the miners and mine owners on tins j point. j

DEFENCE MINISTER CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. 8_ Sir Heaton Rhodes, Minister for Defence, announced to-night that w iaever his own inclinatons were towards a political holiday, he had in view the m an v requests made by electors and has definitely decided to contest the Ellesmere seat at the general election..

LONGFORD ]HALL, IvOKATAHI. FRIDAY, 10th MARCH. /CHILDREN’S fnncy dress ball 7,‘M) A. J till f) p.m. Grand march afc.Spim. Adult hall to follow. Gentlemen 2s; la dies Is. Proceeds in aid of the AYestland Hospital Building Fund. m. MacKinnon Secretary.