SEAMEN INJURED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 8

SEAMEN INJURED.

I The heavy •* seas encountered 'by the RAI.S. Aorangi on the trip across from Sydney were responsible lor slight internal injuries received by two eeamen, who wero admitted to the Hospital on *the arrival of the vessel in port this .morning.

Commenting on the reconstruction of the ■ New Zealand Cabinet, the Pastoral* ists' Review says: — "One fails to recognieo among the new Ministers anyone vsdth euch a personality as Sir Joseph 'Ward. The new Premier is a cautious, .safe politician, well versed in the re- ■ cuiireinente of those who derive their living from the coil, and if he only given the country a rest from legislation good \yill come from tho-change. " Much is ex. -pected from the new Minister for Railways, Mr. Myers, who is a very- able ■man. A feature of the Ministry ib that it is not dominated by orersnadowing personalities like Seddon and Ward. There is greai. scope in New Zealand for sane administration, and it remains to be' seen whether the new Ministry, with ihs small majority, will rise' to the occasion." A banetit "social" in aid of William Kemp, who recently met with an aceideufc in di&tressing cirvumstaneee, will be held in. the Alexandra Hall tv nwr-

The annual meeting of the Wellington Harbour BoaM for the election of a chairman has been called for halfpaet 2 o'clock next Thursday, 2nd May. Mr. A. W. Rutherford writes to the Christohurch Press as follows :— "ln tn recent .issue you state- that I intendted! contesting the Hurunui seat at the next election. This is not strictly correct. What I_ did promise- was that in, the event of a dissolution I would favourably consider the proposition, and that owing to the chaotic state of the party in office it would be as an Independent. Nine small , boys, whose ages ranged from eight to twelve years, were charged in the Juvenile Court, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day, with having broken electric light globes in Danielstreet. . Two. of the boy-s, who were directly responsible for the damage, were ordered to pay 7s 6d each, five others were birched, and two were discharged. 'The lirfet general meeting of members of the newly-formed Early Settlers' and Historical Association of Wellington will be held to-morrow evening at the Town Hall (committee room No. 1), when tho report. of the committee which, has been actively engaged since tho inception of the association will be placed before, membei'e. Persons desiring to join the association are invited to attend tho meeting, and as the work of the association requires the help ,of a largo body of willing and enthusiastic members it is hoped that thero will be a laTge attendance of persons willing to take their share in carrying out lha work of the association. It is also hoped that the early settlers and their descendants will be well represented. Mr. W. A. Midlane, who recently retired from the firm of Miller, Midlane and Co., to join his brothers, Messrs. C. T. and Bruco Midlane, in the North Company, Ltd., has taken up his new ipterests.