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Evening Star, Issue 12652, 4 November 1905, Page 9

At Thursday's meeting of the Domain Board the chairman (Mr J. H. Hancock) I referred to the vote on the Supplementary I Estimates of £l5O for Hue construction of one or two groins at St. Clair. Some time ago he had written to Mr Sidey, M.H.K., I reporting progress, and in reply had rej ceived a communication from the Minister of Works (to whom Mr Sidey had evidently forwarded the communication), expressing pleasure that the work already done had been successful, and was appreciated by those interested in it. He (the Minister) now proposed to invite tenders for the erection of two more groins. Mr Green expressed the opinion that the work was. in capable hands, and that under Mr Dedher's direction would be carried out effectively. J In reply to Mr Greens' inquiry, the chairI man said that, judging from past experience, £l5O would Dot be sufficient to carry out the projected work, but it was hoped, as the result of a little pressure, the vote would be increased. A pathetic instance of the hard* fate of those broken in the war comes from the remote village of Tunai-hovka, in the government of Taarida, in Russia. During the mobilisation a young peasant, tbe strongest ono in the village, was sent to the war, his departure being bitterly felt by his joung wife and aged parents, who thus saw their mainstay taken from them. A few months passed, and the soldier returned, but without arms or legs. This stump of a man was brought in a box to his wife's hut, but sho did not recognise her husband, and neither his crosses of St. George nor the promise of five roubles a month for his support would induce her to accept him. The unfortunate man begged to be carried to his jurcnts, who, he was mire, would know their son. Ho was carried there, but even they disowned him, crying.- " Take this box out of orcr house." And so the unhappy man was carried to the village office, and left to live there as best he could. The Hall liner, Sntton Hall, of Liverpool, has just made the journey from New York to Hongkong in forty-eight days, and has thus set up what is believed to be a record run for a cargo steamer on this passage.