GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 10 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MINERS' UNJ/ XS AND REGISTRATION. Bv Telegraph. —Press Association. Westport, Tuesday. Granity Miners' Union decided, by a majority of 202, to cancel its registration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the voting being 288 to 86. Three large colliery unions in this district have now withdrawn from registration. PLEDGED TO THE FREEHOLD. Hastings, Tuesday. Fifty persons attended the Liberal reunion and carried by 20 votes a resolution that "this meeting expresses dismay and regret at the action of Mr. Dillon, member for Hawke's Bay, in voting with the Opposition on a no-con-fidence motion, and requests him immediately to meet the electors to justify his action or to hand in his resignation." Mr. Dillon, addressing the meeting, said he had pledged himself on tlie hustings to support the freehold, and was ftfoud to say that he had kept his word.

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND. Wellington, Last Night. The subscriptions to the Mayoress' fund for the erection of a children's hospital in Wellington now total £-2831. the sum of £468 having been added today.

PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP. ClmstchurclvLast Night. At the Christchurch Presbytery to-day Dr. Erwin moved that the Presbytery should approve generally of the Directory for Public Worship issued by the Presbyterian Church of England, as an expression of the sense in which the church interpreted the Westminster Directory for Public Worship. The Rev. ■T. Tait moved an amendment that the Presbytery should not approve of any particular book and should ask the Assembly to consider the drawing up of a book of its own. The amendment was carried.

WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Robert Lee, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, has been reelected to the Board by 87 votes, as against 13 votes cast for Dr. F. Wallace Mackenzie for Wellington Citv Ward. Mr. W. H. Field, M.P.. beat the Rev. Thomson by 213 votes to 34 for the representation of Hutt and Horowhenua. For the Wai-arapa, Mr. H. W. Hogg was returned unopposed. The election does not alter the personnel of the Board.