WANT OF TRUCKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 8

WANT OF TRUCKS.

Dslay^ and inconvenience have be-en occiMonad to shipowners and agents at Wellington during the past fortnight owing to shortags of railway trucks lor dUchaiging purposes. Tho Union Company's steamers Koromiko, Waipoii, and Poherua were "held-up" yesterday on this account. The Koromiko has done next Lo nothing in the way cf discharging since Saturday morning; the Waipori has been waiting since midday on Saturday, while the Poherua, which arrived on Sunday, had idone very little by midday to-day. The Canopusrhas a large quantity of coal to discharge into trucks, but has been able to effect very little.

A third-class passenger by the lonic: — a young woman who had booked for Dimedin — vrill not be permitted to land in New Zealand, on account of her having given evidence of an unsound mind during the voyage, and this morning Dr. Kemp, the port health officer, leportcd to the Collector of Customs that the woman was an imbecile. She- will accordingly be taken back to England by the Tainui_, sailing on Thursday. Another person who was travelling in the Ihir'd-class has only one leg. His wife and two children live in Dunedin, and before he will be permitted to land he will require to produce a bond guaranteeing his maintenance in the event of inca--pacity,, or inability to obtain a means of livelihood. At 12.50 p.m. to-day, the fire brigade received a call to 228, Upper Willis,street, where smoke was seen issuing from the .wash-house at the rear of a five-roomed wooden house, which was unoccupied. The wash-house was badly damaged. The rear wall of the main, building and the roof also caught and sustained some hurt. It is believed that the fire originated in a heap of rubbifeh at the back of the premites. An auroral display of great brilliance ?nd impressiveness was witnessed by those on board the big linor lonic during her voyage from the Cape to Hobart. It occurred One evening about a week before reaching the Tasmanian port. Shortly after eight o'clock, said one of the oincers to a Post representative, the whole southern sky became streaked with, vivid and palpitating bands of light, like waving streamers that stretched almost from the horizon to •the zenith. They assumed gorgeouslyvariegated tints and colours, from golden to' deep purple. By two o'clock the next morning the "scene shifter" had done his part, but the display was repeated the next evening, with not quite the same intensity. Auroras have been very frequent in southern latitudes d\iring the past few weeks, almost every vessel arriving from the Cape having reported displays. - Mr. A. D. Bayfield, Hon. secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, has received word from the Tasmanian Rowing Union that the distance of the race for the inter-Stale four-oared championship has been fixed at three miles. Tha winners will receive a shield and five gold medals. The race is open to amateurs who comply with the amateur definition of their respective states. The latter condition is regarded as satisfactory, and cancels the previous one which made ineligible a professional in any other branch of sport. The New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association has been informed by the ' Marlborough Rowing Association that it is willing the New Zealand lowing championship regatta should be held either on Saturday, 22nd January, or Monday, 24th January, whichever of those days is observed as Anniversary Day in Wellington.