GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 74, 18 September 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

THE GERALDINE SEAT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Saturday Night. Mr. W Jeffries, who was defeated on the second ballot for Geraldine last election, will stand again for that seat as an Oppositionist. !A CHURCH BUILDING CONDEMNED. Timaru, Saturday Night. The Primitive Methodist Church building, a part of which was erected in 1874, has been condemned by the 'borough buildings inspector as unsafe for use owing to the weakening of timbers t>y the pine borer. The congregation will not rebuild at present, but will await the result of the union movement, hiring a hall in the meantime. A MEDAL FOR DEBATING. Wellington, Last Night. The annual competition for the Plunkct medal in connection with Victoria College Debating Society was held last night. There were eight competitors. The medal was won by F. G. HallJones, son of Sir W 7 illiam Hall-Jones, High Commissioner. Sir Joseph Ward, I Prime Minister, made the presentation ,of the medal to the winner.

RAINS IN ASHBURTON. Ashburton, Last Night. After a three-quarter inch fall on Wednesday and intermittent showers during Saturday night, rain set in again at Ashburton about nine o'clock this morning and continued steadily throughout the day. It will be most beneficial to the country generally, and a good growth of all vegetation will now rapidly take iplace. At five o'clock there were no signs of cessation. TRAMWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES. Christchurch, Last Night. At a meeting of the Tramway Employees' Union, the delegates to the Trades Council were instructed to ask the council to approach the Government with a view, to having a clause inserted in the Tramways Act making it impossible to have such a system as the "Demeril system," as know in Canterbury in particular, applicable to any public service 'in the Dominion. Mr. J. Young, secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union, who left for Wellington, to-night, was instructed to interview the members of the Federation there, asking their co-operation in obtaining an award for the whole Dominion.