GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 30 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. Per Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court this morning William George Norris. a middle-aged man, was charged with assault on a girl between nine and ten years of age, with intent to commit rape. Accused was committed for trial, bail being refused. A CARELESS HORSEMAN. Timaru, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day a horseman who carelessly rode <lown a cyclist, causing him the loss of a forefinger and £34 in wages and expenses, was ordered to pay this amount, plus £4O damages and £l3 costs. ELECTORAL REFORM. Christchurch, Last Night. The Hon. F. M. li. Fisher, in the course of a chat with a reporter to-night, remarked that in view of the interest being manifested throughout the Dominion at present in the question of electoral reform, and in order to obtain first-hand and up-to-date information as to the working of the proportional voting system in Tasmania, he had instructed Mr. F. W. Mansfield, chief electoral officer for New Zealand, to be present at the recent elections in Tasmania. Mr. Mansfield was to have granted him by the Tasmanian Government full aeces to see the minor workings of the system. Upon -Mr. Mansfield's return to the Dominion he will report to (lie Ron. Mr. Fisher, and he hoped that his report will contain much valuable and interesting in-, formation. THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Wauganui. Last Niglit. Professor McKenzie. of Victoria College, this evening delivered an address in reply to Canon Garland's utterances in regard (o I lie introduction of the Bible into schools. The attendance numbered upwards of fifty. A resolution was passed pledging those present in oppose the platform put forward by the Bible-in-Schools League, ou the grounds (hat the proposal, if carried out? would mean the breaking up of the harmony and efficiency now existing under the present system.