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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3946, 23 October 1891, Page 2

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By Tolegraph.—Press Association. The Bootmakers' Difficulty. Chrktchuroh, Friday. The' Canterbury Employets' Association has arranged a conference i between boot manufacturers and their employees, the Chairman to be of an ' outside trade, selected by the opera tives and approved by the masters. Bible BoaOlasr la School* Auckland, Friday. The motion submitted to the meeting of the Anglican Synod in favor of the reading of the Bible in schools has been withdrawn and Archdeacon Dudley proposed, that in the opinion of the Synod it is desirable that provision be made by the legislature for the dailj reciting of the Lord's, Prayer by the children in the public | schools and also for the reading of j selected portions of the Bible.

anural Sooth at Kit PlymouthNew Plymouth, Friday. General Booth arrived by steamer this morning frem Auckland and left by the express train for Wellington. He was received at the Railway station by the Mayor and about two hundred people. General Booth said he hoped to live te see his social Refarms carried out. Siath of Ml Oil Ssttltt. Nelson, Friday. G. W. Ligbtband, one of Nelson's oldest settlers, died las'! evening after a long illness, The deceased took an active interest in establishing the leather industry, and was the first persDn to manufacture parchment in Now Zealand. The deceased assisted to establish Methodism in Nelson. gad DrowTUnff fatality. Grevmouth, Octobsr 22. A sad drowning fatality took place thia afternoon. Three boyr, Tianipd Frank Lord, aged 12 years, Thomas Lord, about nine, and Sharp, about 8, ] were amusing themselves in an old i scow in the lagoon near the Hospital, j when it is supposed the boat began to Gil with water, and the boys, J

becoming frightened, jumped out and were all drowned. Frank Lord and Sharp when found were clasped in each other's arms. The other body was recovered shortly after by dragging with a rope armed with a fishook. The scow drifted ashore. The two boyß Lord are tho sons ofMr E. J. Lord,' the well-kuown auiSSyor and engineer. The other is a son of a wharf labourer. An attempt was made to resuscitate the first two r who were not rigid, but in rain. The acoidenfc was seen from the Hospital.