GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TIIE MISSING LAUNCH. I TW Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Friday. The Kalui lias arrived via tlic East Coast. She saw nothing of the launch wliiqli was lost between Aohanga and (Vsf.lepoint, or its occupants. Search parties have iet uot. AN UNFOUNDED REPORT. Masterton, Fri day. In rnm'.eclinn with the supposed drowning of four men at Aohanga, news was received this afternoon that the report of the findiirg of the launch on the beach was untrue. There i.s no news of the men or the boat. BIBLE IX SCHOOLS. Tininru, Friday. The Presbyterian Bible Clas.s Conference, now sitting at Teinuka,. on Wednesday morning unanimously passed the following resolution, after hearing an address "on the subject by the Rev. It. (1. Porter, of Oamaru. It was moved by the Rey. G. H. Balfour, president, that this conference of Bible Class delegates (there being 535 registered in embers) accepts the policy of the Bible in State Schools League, and the members pledge themselves earnestly to support it by assisting to form branches of the league, and that in the meantime they suggest that all interested Should take advantage of the facilities already within their reach for giving religious instruction.

A NEW YEAR'S TRIP. Wellington, Friday. It transpires tlmt the reason for the abandonment of the Maori's trip from Wellington to Picton on New Year's Day was not that the firemen demanded 30s, and were refused 'by the company, but simply that the wwither »onwere unsatisfacfeosy.