GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 243, 7 October 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

IMPORT OF AMERICAN LUMBEIi. Bv Telegraph.— Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The itcauier ludr.ivelli, which arrived from Vancouver via Fiji to-day, has about three and a-half million feet of lumber for distribution at Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, and Timarii. Her Auckland 'consignments amount to about 000,000 feet.

POLICE PROVIDENT FUND. Napier, Last Night. AL a nieetbig of members of the local police force this afternoon, it was decided to co-operate with the Wellington police iu urging upon the Governinient the advisableni'ss of deferring action in connection with the Police l'rovident fund. SABBATH DESECRATION. _ Napier, Last Ni'ght. At a meeting of the Uuwke's Bay Presbytery to-day, it was resolved "That this Presbytery deplores the widespread Sabbath desecration within its bounds, and urges the people of the various congregations to use their i;tlltience in the direction of Saibbath observance, and recommends that ministers preach on the Sabbath law on some suitable date."

I IMMIGRATION. Wellington, The passengers brought by tile Athenic, which arrived to-day, numbered (iSS. Of that number 5'.)7 came ill the third class. 237 being assisted passengers. The total ol the declared capital brought by the assisted passengers is £8674. TRAINING SHIP. Wellington, Tuesday. Tile Union Company's training sir.]) Darlford has arrived here. She will lie fitted up to accommodate twenty or thirty boys, wdio will be instructed in seamanship and navigation. ri'ltlKE AT OTIHA TUNNEr-. Wellington, Tuesday. The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram that thirty men cmployed at tile Midland railway tunnel at ira have gone on strike. v- ' * ALLEGED IMMORAL BOOKS. Christchurch, Tuesday.

Mr. Bishop. S.M., gave judgment in the immoral literature eases by fining tile salesmen 40s eacli, but lie did not record convictions against the emplov- ' ers. lie said the sooner the whole thing was buried and forgotten the better. He could not- bring liimself to believe that prosecutions of this nature against men of such standing could possibly result in any real benefit. A warning would have been sufficient for all reftpect'ablo booksellers, and they should then have been spared -ucli proceedings.