A PRISONER OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2318, 27 November 1914, Page 5

A PRISONER OF WAR

-MR. E. FOOKE, LATEIGERMAN CONSUL, / The Defence authorities announced taesterday that Mr. E. Focke, late Gerjma'n Consul at Wellington, had been made a prisoner of war. He is acjcused. of having attempted to commtmijCate surreptitiously with Germany. - ! Mr. Eooke was born in Bremen, and : : for four years was. in business there. I'He was in business in London for five i years,. and arrived in New Zealand in iJB79. , ■. , It will be remembered that a day or :'two after ■ tho newß of the declaration t 'jof the war was received' some unknown wrenched off the Consular [brass-plate from Mr.Eocke's office door land broke two. of the windows. Some (of Wellington's oitizens were, so irate jilt this act. that they, subscribed to pay (for tho repairs, were executed in t'due course, while the German Consul (was inundated with letters of sympathy. I/. ■•■■ -'.!.... == V The Dominion Conference of the New "'Zealand Moderate League will sit at 10 'o'clock this morning at the League's :'Rooms, 37 Panama Street. Mr. A.-A: ( S. Menteath will preside and delegates ; from the various branches now established throughout the Dominion will •he in-attendance. , The resolution of the' City Council ipassed on October 29, 1914, has been reißcinded in so far as it'concerns the Ipolioy of permitting private individuals Uo'erect sheds on the beach at Day's ''Bay. The.'council has now decided to < giant the application made by the residents to erect a bathing shed on the i northern side of the wharf, the rental jfor tho.site to he fixed by the city !,valuer, and the city solicitor to draw ftho conditions nnder\which the erection j will be permitted. The plans and specifications are to bo approved by tho ; city engineor. - ( . ■ In memory of the countless cats which have been slaughtered since the invention of the 6amisen, or three-stringed •'Japanese guitar, which has cat's skin > : as one of its' principal materials, a num'ber of Japaneso philanthropists have ! caused a tomb in the form of a cat's jstatue to bo erected in Tokio. When the Hackney coroner asked a jury if they desired the witnesses ..to leave the 'Court the foreman replied: •"No, let them stop in. They didn't jseem to be making any disturbance."