NEWS IN BRIEF.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 32, 22 October 1920, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Large areas of bush between Queenstown and Bob's Cave have been destroyed by fire. The National Wool-growers' Association of America are seeking to place an embargo on foreign wool. It is possible that the erection of a new hospital at Kew will exceed £50,000 and may be subject to modification. Last Saturday was the sixth anniversary of the departure from the Dominion of the Main Body. The Sinn Fein leaders state that at the end of September, the Sinn Fein loan had reached £371,800. A young man was remanded at the Thames Police Court on a charge of stealing £11 worth of pills. The Southland League has received additional contributions of £20 each from the Riverton and Gore Borough Councils. A thousand pounds reward is offered for . a Sinn Fein general who is wanted by the police, and is believed to be hiding in England. Mr Churchill, jspeaking at Dundee, , stated that it would be madness to put Britain at the hand of De Yalera and his gang of murderers. Lubeck dock labourers refused to load 1,000 tons of artillery niunitions which it was officially deelared were destined for the East Prussian Reichswehr. The New Zealand Government contracts for railway trucks will be delayed indefinitely owing to the British coal strike. A prisoner who had been. chafged with unlawfully interfering with a girl under the age of 16 years, cut his throat- in the police cells at Lyttelton gaol. At the last meeting of the Town Council a taxi-cab's license was cancelled on a recommendation from the police. The owner was given an opportunity of appealing before the Council in defence.

Owing to the inability of Pete " Herman to leave America before September 11, the dat-e of the match between Herman | and Jimmy Wild,e,; at Holborn Stadium, J has been postponed from September 17 to September 27. The Miner's Execotive of South Vvales threatens that unless the strike is settled by October 31st., to agitate for a withdrav/al of all raen froin the mines in Britain ineluding ihe pumping hands, implying a danger of flooding. The Bible in schools question has been discussed by 'the' Southland Presbytery. The following resolution was carried : — - "That the Presbytery of Southland request that the Wellington Executive of the N.Z. Bible in State Schools League furnish as soon as possible a statement of the position of affairs, financial and otherwise, and also indicate what steps if any, it proposses to take to bring the reforrn to a successful issue.V At a meeting to protest against the increased price of butter, held at the Petone Recreation Ground recently, the following resolution was passed "That this combined meeting of Petone citizens assembled enter a strong : protest to the Government against their negligeiice by not giviri-g effective legislation to protect the interest and well-being of ihe" people againsT the elements of rxploitation and speeulation. We. urge for more #ffective measures to be administered to safeguard a peaceful reconstruction as against an aggressive one."