GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 133, 14 September 1910, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE,

By Telegraph.—l'ress Association. Wellington, Tuesday. Sabbath observance was discussed at a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery to-day, when Moderator Inglis, who is drawing up a report on the subject for the General Assembly, submitted the following questions: —What forms of Sabbath profanation are most common within your bounds'! ilow is the work of the Church allected toy them? Can you offer any suggestions as to what siiouiu oe clone? mese questions elicited a fusilade of replies, inciudng "desire for pleasure," •'laziness," "visiting one auotneiY' "working m gardens," "building houses," "football," "golf," "yachting," "'lisliing," "shooting," "tennis." After discussion it was decided to refer the matter to the Sabbath Observance Committee.

IMPRESSIONS OF ARGENTINE. | Wellington, Tuesday. Mr. John McMenamin, late manager of the Terawhiti sheep station, has returned from a trip to the Argentine He says that he would not stay there under any conditions. The land, he thought, was magnificent, but he disliked the people and the Government I was no good. He stated that the Ar- 1 gentine would never beat New Zealand in the frozen meat trade because their meat had no flavour. It was like eating dried sticks. Their sheep were very poor. The cattle were a 'line looking lot but very coarse.

DR.. CH APPLE ON FROZEN MEAT,

Wellington, Tuesday. | Dr. W. A. Chappie is visiting his native country. He has made a special study of the conditions under which' the frozen meat trade is conducted in the Old Country and does not hesitate to say the treatment of colonial meat J in London is nothing short of scandalous. Men with dirty boots used packed carcases as a ladder for climbing up and down. In the barge he went into there was bilge water, cockroaches, funugs, I dirt and° rotten wood. The meat gener- \ ally remained in these barges for 24 hours at a time.