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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 4 November 1904, Page 6

The gale yesterday considerably interrupted the telegraph lines both north and south, contacts being the principal trouble. The lines are working all rigiit to-day. The gale has abated, but it is still boisterous and dusty. Mr. Bird, second engineer of •the steamer Corinna, who was overcome by ammonia funtes as the result of an accident in the freezing room of his vessel yesterday, is reported by the Hospital authorities to be in a serious condition. The Customs revenue collected to-day totalled £2357 19s Id. Tue Arbitration Court was engaged this afternoon in hearing an application for enforcement of the award, made in the case of the Federated Tailoresses' Union, against the Wellington Woollen Company. One matter in dispute was that the company had employed a greater percentage of apnrentices than allowed by the award (one to four operators). This was admitted by Mr. Tripp, who appeared for the company, but he stated that he had an explanation to offer at a later stage. The other matter was that the company had put apprentices on piecework before the term of their apprenticeship had expired. Mr. D. Findlay appeared for the Labour Department. A match will be fired at Trentham tomorrow between teams representing the Wellington Guards and the Karori Rifle Club. A young man, who refused to give any information about himself beyond the fact that his name is Albert Turner, behaved in an extraordinary, manner to-day at Jew's boardinghouse, at the corner of Lambton-quay and Woodward-street. He entered an outhouse about 10 o'clock this morning and refused to leave. Shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon Mr. Jew and a constable burst open the door, and found him bleeding severely at one of his wrists. lie is said to have mentioned that he cut a vein. Subsequently he was taken to the Lambton Police Station and attended by Dr. Henry.. He is said to be in a low state from loss of blood. The funeral of the late Gunner Palmer, R.N.Z.A., who was killed through the blowing out of a breech block in a gun at Fort Ballance, will take place at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow, with military honours. The intorment will be in Karori Cemetery. Notifications to Volunteers appear elsewhere. The Hospital reports that all the sufferers by the accident are progressing favouiably, with the exception of Bombardier Petersen, who shows little change. < The swimming season will be officially opened to-morrow afternoon at Te Aro Baths, by the Wellington centre of the New Zealand Swimming Association. The heavy rains of a week or two ago (says the Wanganui Herald) have had a most disastrous effect on many parts of the district. Immense slips have been brought down from the hill sides, covering hundreds of acres of pasture and burying large numbers of sheep and rattle. In the Taihape district people were uneasy as to the "stability of the railway line itself, where the hills were breaking down under the heavy rain. The Hutt Valley has recently received some attention f from the Education Board*, truant officer, with the result that at the Lower Hutt five parents were each fined 2s and costs 7s for. breaches of the School Attendance Act. The ca&cs were heard before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., and two Justices. The Magistrate remarked that tlie truant officer had not pressed in these first cases for the full penalties allowed — a fine for each week the law had been broken I—and1 — and expressed the -hope that these cases would act as a warning lo other parent* wlio murjit be. inclined to nejjlect their dutx^ ,