SOLDIERS SENTENCED

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 47, 23 August 1918, Page 8

SOLDIERS SENTENCED

The following sentences by district courts-martial at Featherston have been confirmed ■:—For desertion and loss >. .of equipment, Pte. A. Flint, Details (late A Company 38th Reinforcements),, 180 days' Retention and stoppages of pay £7 9s; Pte. J. J. Lundy, Detail* (lats D Company 37th Reinforcements), 128 days' detention and stoppages of pay 2s lOd; Pte. J. Cotter, Details, 112 days' detention and stoppages of pay £1 4s sd. In each case the sentence is mitigated so that if the accused emharks for active service outside of New Zealand, fcUen upon arrival-.at' the final port of~ disembarkation the unexpired portion (if any) of his sentence shall be remitted. .

The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) returned to Wellington to-day. .

: Second-lieutenant K. D. .D'Sullivan, who is reported in the dangerously- ill list, is a son of Major James O'Sullivan, ex-Director of Defence Stores, Wellington. Lieutenant O'Sullivan was severely wounded in the abdomen and forearm in the heavy fighting on the 16th inst. He ■was on the. staff of the Public ..Trust Office when he went on active service, and left; for^.the.front in October last with the '30th Reinforcements. '

The Eev. R. Sv Qray, referring last evening to the issues proposed by the Moderate Party to be' put to the people,' said that":,if,' Prohibition■", gained 39,000 votes, National Ownership "36,000, and Continuance 'only. 50,000.. yet because none had got a majority of the votes , nothing would be carried, arid tilings, would be "as you were.". A,deputation had waited on Sir James 'Allen, and had told, him. that. if Cabinet allowed the issue: of State control to go on the paper the Prohibition Party would demand an immediate poll, without compensation, to be decided by a hare majority, with. preferential voting. Sir James Allen had expressed himself opposed to State control. .

A, suggestion was recently received in Wellington from the .Wireless Garrison at Samoa that they would be pleased to receive a gramophone for the use of the soldiers of the Wireless Garrison. It may be explained that the garrison is isolated, being .some miles from the township of Apia. The Commercial Travellers' Club and other friends in Wellington moved in the matter, and as a result a gramophone was forwarded to Samoa, and the following acknowledgment has been received :—"Headquarters, Somoa Garrison, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa.—The Wireless Garrison to a man wishes to express their 'heartfelt thanks to the members of the Wellington Commercial Travellers' Club, to Mrs. Herbert Kirkcaldie, and others for their very generous gift to a lonely Jot of beggars, isolated at the Wireless Station, .Apia,. Samoa. -This machine, with a plentiful supply of records, will give a lot of pleasure to soldiers of the' Empire doing'their silent bit in the tropical regions.—(Sgd.) R. Moataa "Doughty, Lieut., Officer Commanding ;Wireless." , .

, A dispute over plans and specifications of a washhouse, took up considerable time in the. Petone Court yesterday., James Gardiner proceeded against J. M'Vickar. for the recovery of the sum'of £3 10s for the preparation of the 1 plans; etc. The defence was that the preparation of the plans had not been, authorised and that plaintiff had merely been asked to give an estimate for doing the work- himself, and that an advertisement calling for tenders inserted had not been authorised. '•,, The Magistrate, Mr. F. V. Frazer, held.that plaintiff had not fully proved his case, and he would be nonsuited with 21s solicitor's fee.

Private E. B. J. Feil, who was killed in aafcion on the Western front on the Bth instant, was'a son of the late J. 0.,Feil and Mrs: Feil, of Kensington, Dunedin, and a brother of Mr. G. J. J. Feil, of 6, Eata-road, Hataitai. After being edncated' at the Kensington Public School he obtained a scholarship to the Otago Boys' High School, and from there served his apprenticeship with Messrs. A. and T. Burt, Ltd., of Dunedin. Subsequently he joined the Railway Department, and resigned about two years ago in order to enlist in the 26th Reinforcements. He leaves a wife and two children, who are at present living at Herne Bay, Auckland.

Mrs. Percival Morgan was hostess last night at the Sailors' Friend Society. The vocal, instrumental, and . elocutionary items were all given with taste, and were encored. The performers were: — Mesdames P. Morgan and Child., the Misses Airlie, I. Trim, M. Gawler,, Wilte, and K. Henderson, and Messrs. Wallace, Brown, Mount, Wilkinson, Green, and Master Montgomery.' Mrs. Walker, Miss Henderson, and Mias Gawler were at the piano. Mr. Moore (missioner) was in the chair. He pleaded for discard ed books for the men. Some bite of fun entered into the competitions. Prizes were" again cent by well-wishers. Cheers closed a memorable night for the men.

Messrs. C W. Price and Co. will sell furniture, etc., at 59, Tinakori-road, tomorrow, at 2 p.m. ■

Mr. W. Williaiis, second mate on the RegttIns. has come aahore, and his place has been tafcea n>y>m;.B. Gi O'DonneH

The monthly re-cmion of soldiers' and sailors' mothers will be given by the W.N.R. next week.