LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 11 September 1914, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

BERTHING LlfeT. Vessels to nmvr have been allotted bprthi a« mirier :- Maori— No. 4 south. Queen's Wharf. Nikau— No, 10 south, Queen's Wharf, Corinnn— No. 12 south, Quern"* Whurf, Moana--Jervois-quay Wlmrf. The following saloon passengers arrived by the Mokoia, fiom northern ports, to-duy:-Misses Champion. Walton, Mesdnines Davis, Orr. Kdinondbon, lloßei anil 3 children, (ilceson, Messrs. Dale (2), Nightingale, Wilson, Wingct, Dentice, Gleepon ; 12 steerngc. At present Homeward loadihg at Bluff the New Zealand Shipping Company's ltehitiera will next visit Napier f#>r a similar purpose before cofning on to Wellington to*flll up. This yes» scl is. lifting the first of this season's dairy produce for export to Lohdoti. The C. and D. Line's steamer Star of A»b> tralia is expected to sail for LHteltoU and nunedih on Sunday morning to put out the remainder of her New York cargo. The vessel subsciiuently loads at various New Zealand ports for Home. The Mrrine Department has been advised that the Government steamer ttlnemoa arrived at Kaipara this morning, and after working there, will continue her trip down the coaat. She is due here about the middle of next week. BY TELEGRAPH. *„ .. • « POUTO, mh September. Sailed— Louisa Craig, barqire (11,16 a.m.), for Adelaide. „ .. . PATEA, llth September. Sailed— Aorere (1.10 p.m.) and Hawera (1.20 P.m.), for Wellington. The Speaker of the Legislative Council (Sir Charles Bowen) has not sufficiently recovered from his recent accident to be able to carry out the duties of his position, which are now being discharged by the Hon. W. C. F. Carncross, Chairman of Committees. Afc this week's meeting of the Auelo land Acclimatisation Society, Colonel Hazard announced that the proposal tha-t the fishing season should be opened in the Auckland district on Ist October had been approved by Mr. L. F. Ayson, the Chief Inspector of Fisheries. The Minister of Internal Affairs notified • the council that an owner of land who was said to keep deer in a domesticated state could kill the deer, but that they could not be sold without the necessary license. It was resolved that the Minister of Internal Affairs should be notified that it was desirable to remove the prohibition on the t use of worm-bait within the Auckland district. ' i In "Th» Anglo-German Problem," by Charles Sarolea, there is a chapter dealing with Germany's policy in the Near East, to which point is given by the news regarding Turkey and her attitude to the present wufi. The writer says :-— ''It may be objected that the triumph of Austrian Germany, acting as the van* guard and 'loyal Seknndant' of the llohenzollem, and bringing under Teutonic control all the Slav races on both sides of' the Danube, must still take many years for its realisation. That may be so, but certainly the same objection cannot be made with regard to Turkey. The absorption of Turkey is not a distant dream; it is very nearly an accomplished fact. Twenty-five years ago Germany declared she had no political stake in the affairs of Turkey. . . . To-day Germany is well-nigh supreme on the Bosphorus. She started by sending military instructors, and by reorganising the Turkish army on the German model. She then sent her travellers, absorbing the commerce 'of the country. She then sent her engineers, obtaining concessions, building railways, and practically obtaining the control of the so-called Orien» tal line. Finally, she became the self' appointed doctor of the 'sick man. 1 Whenever the illness of recent years came to a< crisis—after the Armenian and Macedonian atrocities, after the Cretan insurrection-— Germany stepped in, and paralysed the action of Europe-. It was Germany that not only enabled Turkey to crush Greece, and to restore her military prestige; it was Germany that enabled her to Veap the fruits" t)f victory. For ten years Lohengrin appeared as tin* temporal providence, the protector ot Abdul Hamid. A power which did not have one Mohammedan subject claimed to protect two hundred million Mohammedans'. . . . The Cross made an unholy alliance with the Crescent." At to-day's meeting of the Makara, County Counoil it was decided to take over the Newlands-road, Johnson ville. A remarkable transformation has taken place at Dannevirke which those who had not previously visited the old course since the improvements were effected could not help being favourably impressed with. The enclosures, lawn, weighnig enclosures, and paddock, are all on the liberal scale, and an up-to-date, number board in the centre of the course, sand roll, hosing yard, and other convenience* for trainers are in use. The main stand is commodious, and the official stand, would be improved by another staircase (the same as at Trentham) for the visitors and stewards, leaving the only existing entrance a.t present for the trainers and press. Had the balcony to the building been a little wider ib would have improved the accommodation. Considering the difficulties the club had to overcome in securing the freehold of the land from the Native owners* it has done well. Messrs. J. Neagle, R. Roake, R. N. Blakiston, T. A. G. Lloyd, who have been connected with the club for some years, are still on the executive. In Mr. Robert Ta,kle, the club has got a capable and obliging official to succeed Mr. J. S. Freeman, who has greatly improved in health after a servere illness. Before the war "Waimcd the attention of the country England appeared to be on the eve of severe industrial strife i» different parts and in different callings. Mr. James Sexton, general secretary of the National Union of Dock Labourers, informed his brother magistrates that unless a settlement of the Mersey Dock strike was arrived at very soon he wa* afraid the trouble would extend. "In the interests of public peace in this city," he said, "I want to ask the magistrates to use their influence and efforts to bring about a. settlement at aJi early date. At present we are trying to settle, but unfortunately we have nob been successful bo far. The men I represent/ have acted up to instructions up to now, but the position is getting uneasy. For mo it is a very anxious time, and I only want you to understand that it is not to my satisfaction that the thing should be prolonged to any great extent. I hope something will be dona to bring to an end this business before we have » repetition of what happened three years ago, which no one in Liverpool wants to see again." It is forty-four years since Paul Cm* quevalli fust appeared in public. H» ma.de his debut in a small town in Russia, and declares that he has not had one holiday since, in the strict sense of the term. Paul' has travelled all over the world, and has just been through Germany. There is some talk of his settling in Australia. Perhaps no critic has ever done more for Cinquevalli than did E. V. Lucas in one of his delightful Siecea dealing with London life and its elighte. Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., launched at Southampton on 24th. July Et.M.S. Meteor, one of two oceangoing torpedo-boat destroyers under con» struclion by the firm for the 1913-14 Naval programme. The dimensions are, approximately : length 275 ft and breadth 27ft 6in, the form of hull being of th» type characteristic of the destroyers of Messrs. Thornycroft's design, which hM given such satisfactory performances on the earlier vessels The propelling machinery consists of two set* of Parsons turbines, eteam being provided by fourlargo water-tub© boilers burning oil fuel.