GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 332, 26 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

LOCAL INDUSTRIES' WEEK. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Christchurch, Last Xight. The Canterbury Industrial Association are. considering the holding 6f a second industries week at an early adte. CHRISTIAN CONVENTION. Wangauui, Last Xight. The Wangauui Christian Convention, oil lines of the renowned Keswick Convention, commenced to-night. Rev. Andrew Allan, of Glasgow, is special missioner.

- CH'RI'STCIIVUCiI NEWS. Christchurch, Last Xight. At a meeting of the City Council to

night an appeal was received from the I'etoiic Citizens' Association for assi-;-ancc in connection with the British un•employed. It was resolved to ask the Government if it would support the appeal.

It was reported that ">:! building permits had been issued during December, representing a building value, of jtlil,-1-10. In the same month l.'ljMo animals had In i'ii slaughtered at the municipal abattoirs, of which lo had been condemned.

Tlic I'liiuu-i] resolved tu approacli the local members of Parliament with the object of |»t tt a dnuse in the Local Bodies Loans Act, l!l(W, innkiug the Public Trustee the sinking fund commissioner lor all local loans repealed. It also decided to institute a prosecution a«;aiu>t theatrical proprietors for breach of the new by-laws relating to seat numbering and the ihMie of tickets, to correspond. It was decided to make a strong pro- [ toil- to tho Minister of Defence in re--1 sped to permission having heru m -i'ted for the n>e of Kin# Kdwar' >- last Sunday for the purpose v itaijunent for the pecuniary jjain of ihe promoters, the Council's permission not having been obtained, and the Council lutviu<: a by-law prohibiting entertainnients of th«' character mentioned oil Sundays.

WKLUXCTOX lIALK-lIOLIDAY. Wellington. Last Night. I The Wellington Shopkeepers' AssociaI lion -passed a resolution to-day reroiuineudiug that Wednesday be continued las the weekly half-holiday. Strong objection was Liken to the ell'.irl that is being made by the Trades and Labor Council tu |,ave the dav changed to Saturday, h was staled that many of those pir-.uis who have signed a petition for the Saturday half-holiday annul eli'iiors, and that, moreover, the shop assistants do not desire a change.

KX CHAMPION WKIiJI, DumMin. Jnminrv 22. \V<»I)I), the f»\'-scuHin«r chrtni]iion, U nl in Dmiciliu iTrnvinj; tmitinnt fov miwruliir rluMinuUism.

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