25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Fracas in Scouts Camp

(From "The Dominion,” February 8, 1910.) On Sunday evening a report of a serious fracas which was alleged to have occurred at the training camp of the Dominion Scouts at the Hutt Park was received at “The Dominion” office. Yesterday a representative of “The Dominion” made certain inquiries which seem to establish the fact that at an early hour on Sunday morning an incident occurred in the officers’ quarters of the Dominion Scouts, which may be attended with unpleasant consequences. About 1 a.m. on Sunday one of the subaltern, officers of the corps is said to have become involved in a heated altercation with his commanding officer. The captain became incensed 1 and struck his junior. The subaltern retaliated, and, it is said, knocked his assailant down. An unseemly fracas ensued until another subaltern interfered, and with the assistance of some of the men. separated the two. In the morning the matter was reported to the senior officer present. Both men have been placed under arrest, and a Alilitary Court of Inquiry has been set up to investigate the circumstances and report.

A conference between the Petone atrl Hutt, borough councils was held last evening to consider the advisableness of amalgamation of the two boroughs. Air. .1. AV. AlcEwan, Alayor x of Petone. an.l Air. E. P. Bunny. Alayor of the Hutt, sat side by side presiding. 'The following representatives of the Petone council were present: —Councillors Trueman. List, Short. Piper, .Southgate, and Harding. The Hutt representatives were: Counc; 1 - lors Hayes, Clere; Baldwin. Alacaskill and Barlow. It is doubtful whether any definite result will come out of the conference. » » » A man at the Aleadow Colliery, in Staffordshire, pushed a tub into a shaft under the mistaken impression that lie waV pushing it. into the cage at the top. He fell with the tub 249 feet into water at the font of thg shaft, and was rescued uninjured.