GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 18 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association. THE COOK ISLANDS. Auckland, Yesterday. News from Cook Islands reports that on October 14 Kaiigi Makea was installed Ariki in succession to the late Makea as Ariki. The late queen was chief of the Government, and her successor will not receive a similar appointment, but will be on an equal footing with the other Arikis. Owing to New Zealand canners being unable (o supply the demand, there is almost a meat famine in the Cook Islands. THE ' : XE TEMERE" DECREE. Dunedin, Yesterday. The Presbyterian Assembly carried a resolution denouncing the "ne temere" decree as calculated to disturb the peace of families, break up the home, and seriously affect the social standing of numbers of homes. It called on the Government to devise some means of protecting the social interests and civil rights of parties affected by the decree. METHODIST SYNOD. Auckland, Yesterday. The Methodist Synod referred the question of the Bible in schools to the forthcoming conference for the united decision of the Methodist Church. The Synod passed a resolution calling upon members and adherents of tho church vigorously to combat the liquor traffic and strive for tho abolition of the totalisator. It declared uncompromising hostility to tho liquor traffic, and strongly urged the most strenuous endeavor at tile forthcoming poll to rout the iatolerable enemy to the national character and well-being. WATERSIDE WORKERS' DEMANDS. Timaru, Yesterday. The Timaru Waterside Workers' Union invites the shipping agents to confer before the 25th inst. on the new arrangements re wages, hours and other conditions. They ask for Is 9d and 2s Gd per hour for overtime (G, p.m. to 10 p.m.) for ordinary stevedoring work, 2s and 2s for manure, cement and coal work, and after 10 p*n. overtime at the rate of 3s fid and 4s; also that the number of gangs for different work be specified and the contents of slings, and straight-out preference on the usual conditions. WELLINGTON TRAMWAYS. Wellington, Yesterday. | Thirty-five applications have been re- - ccived for the position of tramways traffic manager, and have been referred to the Tramways Committee. The Council has also received a letter signed by nearly every employee, Expressing his contentment with the present management. SCHOOLS AND ELECTIONS. Feilding, Yesterday. A settlement has been arrived at, so far as the Oroua electorate is concerned, in the dispute between the electoral officer and Wanganui Education Board, the officer abandoning his claim to closo twelve schools and making other arrangements, besides consenting to submit the names of all teachers required and deputies to the board.

AXTI-MILITAKISM. Feilding. Yesterday. At the swearing-in- of the Territorials here last night a disturbance was threatened, but was avoided by the. sweet reasonableness of the officers. One or two Socialists tried to incite the crowd, but were finally treated with' indiflererlee. SLY GROG SELLING. Invercargill, Yesterday. At the Police Court. Alfred Woodside, fruiterer, was fined £SO and costs for keeping liquor for sale, and £2 for bringing liquor into a no-license district without notification.