GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 260, 26 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. Ptr' Press -Association. Wellington, Monday. The Hon. 11. D. licll has received advice that the battleship New Zealand will ;u-- ; rive at Wellington on April 12. Ques- ' tioned regarding the visit of the warship f to Napier, Mr. Bell said that this might be possible on the vessel's journey to Auckland. I CHURCH BUILT IN A DAY. | Gisborne, Monday. ; The Methodists of Mangapapa on Sat- . urday morning ='-t to work to build . themselves a church in a day, and just , after sunset, after strenuous labors, met , together to return, thanks in the corn- , pleted building. SPIRITUALISTIC CONFERENCE. , Wellington, Monday. The New Zealand Spiritualists' Societyhas been holding a conference in Wellington during the week-end, and to-morrow I a deputation will wait on the Minister of Justice to discuss legislation which spiritualists desire to have enacted coverj ing the aims of their club. , Wellington, Tuesday. !■ The deputation of the president and j delegates of the New Zealand Associa- ; tion of Spiritualists waited on the Hon. Mr. Herdman, Minister of Justice', tot day, asking the Government to introduce I into Parliament a Bill giving the Assoc i- , a tion a legal status, recognising its mcm- ; bers, and to prevent frauds and quacks , practising under the name of spiritnal- . ists. Mr. Herdman replied that he knew of no such measure being in exist- [ enee in any British country. He would f submit the request to Cabinet, but could ( not personally recommend the Government to take up the measure. j ' POULTRY ASSOCIATION. Auckland. Tuesday. . At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Poultry Association, Mr. Morrett, secretary, in the annual report said that the industry had assumed big proportions. Prices of eggs and poultry 1 were fifty per cent .better than ten years ago. The improvement in laying 1 .birds had been phenomenal. A trial • shipment of eggs to Vancouver did not show a great profit but the results demonstrated the possibility of' workinglip an extensive export trade. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. Auckland, Tuesday. The New Zealand Association of Nurserymen met this morning. Mr. A. MacDonald (president), in liis opening address. said that the leading export (inns in Victoria had signed a guarantee not to sell in the Dominion below New Zealand standard rates. The Agricultural Department, after exhaustive inspection, had reported that it had been unable to find any trace of crowngale in any New Zealand-grown apples. The membership of the Association had been steadiiy increasing, seven South Island and live North Island nurserymen joining during the year. The Nurserymen's Conference passed a resolution that should any New Zea-land-grown trees or those, more than twelve months in the Dominion be destroyed by order of the Agricultural Department, the Government should pay half the value of such nursery stock, as in the case of diseased animals. A BURGLARY HAUL. Levin, Tue«dav. , The jewellery establishment of F. J. (I la el- in was entered by burglar- during the Easter holidays between Saturday and Mondav. and valuables estimated to be "worth £l5O were stolen. There is no clue. WHEELWRIGHTS AND CARRIAGEBUILDERS. Wellington, Tuesday. A conference of delegates of the various carriage builders' and wheelwrights* associations of the Dominion owned in Wellington to-dav. Mr. .T. W. Bravsliaw. of Taranaki, was in the shair. Tt: was decided, on the motion of Mr. Childs, of Taranaki. to form a federation for New Zealand, to be known as "The Carriage-builders', Wheelwrights' and Motor-car Builders' National Association of New Zealand." The delegates were welcomed l\y the Mayor.