LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13251, 9 December 1913, Page 7

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

• (Per Press Association.) TLMARiU, last night. A large number of senior cadets were before the~ Court to-day charged with failing to attend drills. The majority offered objections to the uniform. They wear long trousers now and dislike the short pants. The Magistrate ridiculed ithe objection, and told them the uniform took first prize m Canada against all others, and warned them that they , must drill m uniform whether they liked it or not. A laugh is going round town over a joke played ion>a party of business men m a leadjng hotel by a couple of commercial travellers, who were accepted as "Webb, M.P.," and "Young Scmple," and won one party to the opinion that the "Red Feds, are not such baa fellows I after all. J DUNEDIN, last night. I Martin Walsh, a seaman who was ! recently on the Waitomo, made an at- • tempt on his life this evening. He i had evidently been worrying over losing | his situation on account of the strike, and cut his throat with a razor. The wound, however, ia not serious. A fortnight ago about half-a-dozen members of the Port Chalmers fire brigade decided to resign as a protest 1 against taking orders from an officer who was alleged to have worked on the Mokoia, during docking operation.", doing work wliich would have been done by unskilled labor if fch? men had not been on strike. At a mooting of the Council last night it was reported that eleven men had resigned. The men will attend fire 3 ns usual pending a settlement of the difficulty.