GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 90, 6 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BAPTIST OOXFERK NT !■:. ! By Telegraph—Press Association. ; Napier, Thursday. | The twenty-ninth animal conference of the Baptist Union opened yesterday afternoon, the business- being formal. Th« delegates," numbering ninety, were wecomed at a public meeting in the evening. NHW ZEALAND CO.MI'CTITIONS. Wellington, Thursday. The entries for the New Zealand Competitions total just on ISOO. from 03 towns. I'V>r singing and elocution there are slightly over 700 in each section. There are !)84 from outside Wellington. and 807 from Wellington. There a.re 36 entries for the eighty-guinea piano. Green Island (Dunedin), St. Andrew's (Chrrstchureh), and (irafton Road (Auckland) have entered for the choristers' competition. A ROAD WANTED. Wairoa, Thursday. At a large and representative meeting of the A. and P. Society it was decided to urge the Minister for Public Works to complete the road round Waikaremoana to connect with the W«ikaio stock ma.rket, also to open up the tourist traffic. It is stated thai there is only three miles between the roadheads.

FINED FOR SLY GROG SELLINGS. Gore, Thursday. William Byron, jun„ was fined £SO to-<lay for keeping liquor for sale. THE SHIPPING TROUBLE. Wellington, Thursday. In connection with the coastal officers' trouble the shipowners met the Merchant Service Guild in conference to-day, but adjourned with no result communicable to the press. It is believed the owners are disinclined to grant all the officers' demands.