TO-DAY'S NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 385, 9 August 1911, Page 5

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Abbreviated lYees Association Reliovt s. I NTF-K PNO VI NCI AL. Sir J amor Carrol made a lengthy explanation in the House of Kepresentat.ives yoHterdsy on Ibo JVlokau lands deal iiurs. The Government. offered facilities for oivinj; the matter the utmost publicity. !ii 11ui vi ii the matter bo referred to the Native All" airs Committee, which was curried by 3:5 to 26 voter-. 'Tin' Masscy v. " N.Z. Times" appeal 'as been dismissed. The Court were evenly divided, and in accordance with the Act, the ui;s:mei;t of the lower court was sturmou.

A numbi :■ of jockeys and stable boy:- made ;.n ant i< compulsory military traininj: demonstrat ion in Auckland li'L ni;;M.. Tl;ev "formed fours" and marched up to the drill hall, but (ho police checked any further demonstration.

The Wellington Presbytery has re-, solved that marriage.", between Catholics ami non-Catholics, in the absence of a Catholic priest, are valid, and not null and void ar pronounced by a recent no icmc'.e decree. Wellington made 1 LV.HI out of its Industrial I'a hi int ion. CAKKK NKWS. Mr Balfour's censure motion was rejected by :ud. to :M(i. Mr Asuuitb, at. the King*B strong desire, has ni: closed the confidential communications he had; had with himself and Kin;: K iwaid, in which he had said) in no case would he recommend a (iissoiution, o-.cepi under conditions securing that. {he judgment, of the people would be csined into law. At K ing Kdwsre's deaths truce was declared, which ,Y!| tlnongh later, and the Cabinet advised King George to dissolve, but made it. clear that it would not be honem aide to go into an election blindfold. and that his Majesty should be ready to exorcise his constitutional powers, which might involve creatine peers. 11 iH M ajesiv afP r discussing the matter | in ail its bearings tell, he had no al- | tentative Inii. So assent, and on the IMb November a diu rolu!ion was an* nouncoii.