GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1916, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

COMMEMORATION OBELISK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, December 10. Hon. G. W. Russell on Saturday unveiled an obelisk on the site of Alexandra .redoubt, near Tuakau, to thn memory of men who fell in the Maori war. The neighborhood of the redoubt i was the scene of an ambush of natives j in ISG3 of the Sixty-fourth Regiment'. Color-Sergeant McKenna, after the officers had been wounded, brought in the company with the wounded, for which he received a commission and the Victoria Cross. •■; THE MINERS GO BACK. Greymouth, Doc. 11. The Paparoa miners return to work to-morrow. The dispute has been' amicably, settled, and work proceeded quietly all day at Blackball, although the mine is not yet full} manned. THE PLUNKET SOCIETY. Auckland, Dec. 11, In the course of a meeting of the Phmket Society to-night', the Hon. G W. Russell announced that in the wed; ending January 27 he Would make an appeal to the country in aid of the Society's work. He asked the churches to inaugurate a campaign on the preceding Sunday. He would be disappointed if between £IO,OOO and £20,000 were not raised. I'IRE BRIGADE CONFERENCE Auckland, Dec. 11. As the result of a ballot, among the brigades affiliated to the Fire Brigades Association, the 10)7 conference will be held at Balclutha. Helensville was the other place submitted to decision LOYAL NELSON. ( Nelson, Dec. 11. At a largely- attended public meeting called for the purpose to-night, (he following resolution was carried unanimcusly, and is to be cabled to Mr. Lloyd fii'crgc: "That the citizens of Nelson des-ire to affirm their loyalty to the Crown and Empire, and express conn - ., dence in and sympathy with Mr. Lloyd George in his expressed intention to fight the war to a finish and I ring it to an early and victorious termination." Rousing patriotic speeches were delivered by several prominent speakers.