DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1919, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

, SHEEP BUKNED TO DEATH.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 25.

A firo on the property of 3lr Charles Blake at Waingama destroyed 200 sheep and did other damage. MORMON ACTIVITY IN ENGLAND. Jan. 25. Writing from England on November 14 to the Mayor of Palraerston North Chaplain Winfon recorded an alarming dcevlopmcnt in connection with Mormon activities at Home. Ho declared that he was horrified to see that 12,000 British girls were to be shipped to Utah as soon as the war was over for Mormon business. The Mormons had a fund of £8,000,000 behind them to push their cause

THE MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

Wellington, Jan. 25. The Union Company lifts granted members of tho Merchant Scrvfca Onil.l a v/ri]■ risk bonus of £5 lOh per month. The guild originally asked {or a bonus of £3 per month.

TOWN PLANNING CONFERENCE. Christchurch, Jan. 25. The Hon. 0. "\\. Russell announced today that it had been decided to hold at Wellington a town planning conference in May, and that Mr. Iturst* Scager, th:> Christchurch architect, had been appointed honorary organising director, and will Lake charge of all the arrangements, lie had been given an ob'ice ami a private i.ecretary. Invitations to the eonfeiviu-e Willi be issued to all members of Parliament, mayors, engineers, and clerks of all the principal municipal bodies, alio representatives from ihe Architects. Engineers, and Purveyors Institute, tintrades and labor councils, and to the women's organisations o? all chu.iethrougbout. the Dominion.

NIAGARA PASSENUKR DISAPPEARS Auckland. Jan. 25. During the voyage of the Niagara i'r.>n> Sydney. a pawumier named John Boyd Evitt disappeared the night before 1 hifdiip arrived at Auckland. E\itt was a married man and a gunsmdh of S; unci'. Kc was coming to visit relatives in Auckland. A SEAPLANE RECORD. Auckland, Last Xisht. A New /calami reeoi'd was establi-hc 1 yesterday by a seaplane from the lvoV marama school, which reached an alii tilde of fi.'OO feet, The previous record was established by Mr. Hill, of Sockburn. with 5000 feet.