DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

HYDRO-ELECJRICITY IN SOUTHLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invereargill, Last Night. The Southland electric power district, the first under the Hydro-electric Power Boards Act, has been gazetted. The Act was promoted by the Southland Progress League in connection with the Lake Monowai scheme. The Board will be elected on December 20, and immediately the ratepayers in the district will vote on a proposal for a loan of a million to carry out the electrification of the whole province with part of Southern Otago. BAPTISM BY IMMERSION. Invereargill, Last Night. The General Assembly referred the case of the Rev. A. A. Murray, of Auckland, who was baptised by immersion, to a special committee. NATIONAL PROHIBITION. Invereargill, Last Night. The temperance report, prescribed by Rev. T. Paterson, was discussed by the General Assembly, and the following deliverance was carried, with only one dissentient: That the assembly declares its continual adherence to its past policy of urging all ministers, office bearers "and members of our church to vote and work for national prohibition; it further declares its conviction that there is no real value as a means of ending the evil attending the liquor traffic by the purchase of it by the State, and that we regard such an alliance between the State and a business fraught with moral and physical evils a* unworthy of the ideals which should govern a Christian nation. RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. Wellington, Last Night. It is announced in the Gazette that the notice issued by Commissioner Culten on December 9, 1914, respecting the restriction placed on movements of enemy subjects is revoked, as well as all subsequent instructions relating thereto. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' GRIEVANCES.

Napier, Last Night. At the monthly meeting of the local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which was held on Wednesday evening, when there was a very large attendance, the following resolution was passed: "That the Napier branch of the A.S.R.S. earnestly requests our executive to ask the Prime Minister to explain the reason why the Reform Government voted the large sum of £340.000 of public money as a bonus to butter producers when members of the second division find it very hard indeed to exist at the present rate of wages. We urgently demand that the executive immediately interview the Minister for Railways for a definite statement regarding increases in the second division, and urgently demand at least 2/0 per day increase all round, also that the scale of increases to the police force was granted without having to be placed before the committee, and asking why this different treatment was ineted out to two branches of Government servants. _. .j., . , CHARGES OF BURGLARY. Carterton, Nov. 20. Howard Harold Armstrong was before the court yesterday on charges of breaking and entering and, on the application of Detective-Sergeant Mason, wa3 remanded till Tuesday the 25th] Bail was allowed in £IOO and two securities of £SO. NAPIER MARDI GRAS. Napier, Nov. 20. A new and novel feature in the launching of the Mardi Gras Queen election transpired last night when a huge audience assembled in the Municipal Theatre to listen to a series of ten- ' minute speeches delivered by selected speakers on behalf of the ten candidates, with a prize of 1000 votes to the speaker delivering, the best speech, and the audience voted this amount to the combined brass bands' candidate. DUNEDIN WATERSIDERS. Dnnedln, Nov. 20. The Waterside Workers' Union decided at a stop-work meeting to ask for £3 per man per shift of eight hourf for salvaging the Karori's coal oargo. The • Terawhiti is expected from Wellington early to-morrow. THE CAMPBELL ISLANDS. Dunedin, Nov. 20. The steamer Stella arrived last night from the Campbell Islands. The party on the islands are well, but reported that rough weather had been experienced throughout the winter season. The lambing season had been good and feed was plentiful. The Stella took down six men from Dunedin to assist those employed on the islands shearing and mustering. The intention of the Campbell Islands Company is to purchase a suitable steamer when available to be employed in the company's business between the islands and Dunedin.