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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 6

James O'Meara, a young man, from Pelone, was admitted to the Hospital last night with shot wounds on both his legs. He was out rabbit shooting when he received the discharge of another person's gun in hia lower limbs. His condition is not serious. At the Trades Hall this evening the names will be announced of the nominees as trade unionist candidates for tho Wellington South, East, and Suburbs seats at the General Election. For the ballot, which takes place almost im< mediately, ballot papers will be sent to some 7000 trades unionists. At the Appeal Court to-day the date of the hearing of the application before the Full Bench in re Harawira Piki>rangi, deceased, a question as to the validity of the payment of a Native's debts out of the proceeds from the sale of Maori lands, was fixed for Friday, 30th October. Mr. G. H Treadwell made the application. Some months ago a collection of Moa bones was discovered in a cave on Mr. Conway's property at Coonoor (says the Pahiatua Herald). The Museum authorities Have been acquainted with the findj and last week Messrs. Thomson and Speight, of the Wellington and Christchurch < Museums respectively, arrived in Pahiatua, and proceeded to Coonoor. After , making an examination of tho locality they decided to send an officer from the Wellington Museum to collect the boneß. Messrs. Thomson and Speight returned to Wellington on Friday. The charge of theft of union funds, brought against Edward John Jones, secretary of the Waterside Workers' Union, was again mentioned in the Magistrate's Court this morning. It was adjourned from last Friday, and when it was called on. Mr. M. Myers (for defendant) stated' that an arrangement had been come to under which the case could be heard on Friday. He suggested that the afternoon be fixed for the hearing. Mr. D. G. A. Coopar agreed. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for the prosecutor (Thomas Joseph Ladd). A vigorous protest against the arrangements for the ordinary holiday train service on the Hutt suburban line yesterday is made by a correspondent, "Stand Up All the Way." Ho admits that carriage accommodation would be in great demahd for race patrons, but contends that the Department should have made a gVeator eftort to cope with the return holiday-ma,king traffic. He states that the 6.45 p.m. train, in which he and his family returned from tho Upper Hutt, was scandalously overcrowded, and men, women, and "children —including babies- — were simply packed together. In "Stand All the Way's" carriage "Iber^ were six pairs of double seats jm each side, providing seating accomnwdation for, say, fifty people. Yet in the two top double seats there were no fewer than 27, moii, women, and children — some of them, of course, htanding. In the next two there were 15, and in the next the occupants were lucky to number only 12. These numbers 1 counted personally, but the crush .was so great-, and was so increased at each station, that I could not count the numbers in the other seats." Our correspondent presumes that the •au.Uiori ties knew how many people travelled from the city, and thinks provision should have been made accordingly ,for their re* turn home.