GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 5 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

MILITARY SERVICE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, Yesterday. E. Stevenson addressed nn open-air meeting of about three hundred people last night in opposition to compulsory military training. The meeting was hostile throughout, and ended in an uproar. A band of about two hundred youths singing "Soldiers of the King," "Rule Britannia" and other patriotic aii's, chased the speaker, who took refuge in a restaurant and escaped through the rear of the premises to the Ranfurly liotel. The police arrived at .this stage, and the crowd dispersed. MAILS HELD UP. Cisborne, Yesterday. The postal authorities, apparently under direction from Wellington, held up the. weekly and daily newspapers posted last week for mails closing at ft o'clock this morning, which would have been delivered by the inland mails within three days 'of the election. This was done because they contain advertisenients containing instructions !•!>«• to vote. No notice was given by the postal authorities of their intention to withhold the delivery of mails; otherwise arrangements might have been made for an independent delivery. The author of a pamphlet on the prohibition question, which was also held up. has received authority for these to be delivered, but the newspapers | have been blocked. I