NEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 5

NEAR AND FAR.

On Thursday at the District LandsUfiks, Invercargill, nine sections of 20 acres each wore balloted for. The sections consisted of bush land that bad been worked by saw-mills, and are situated from two miles and a-liaJi to three miles from Wintoo. The allotmeuts were in keen request, as was evidenced by the fact that the number of applicants for each ranged from 76 to 91. The following’ were the successful applicants:—Catherine Bell. Mary Dixon, John Waiter Cahill. John Reynolds, Francis Frew. A. F. Buss, Joint M'Kae, John Buckley. Tbos. J. O’Brien. The Gisborne Caambcr of Commerce will co-operate with the Napier Chamber in urging the vigorous prosecution of the NapierGisborne line, mul its fimtihaneotss starting at. b-ili ciafc*. The oppouanta of univt'rsd miiitaiy training Jmd another lively meeting at Wcilinaton yesterday, bat they launched their Anti-Coascriptiou League. At Alexandra South un oigauhsation called the Alexandra Progressive Setthmont Leatue has been formed, and will cooperate with iho newiy-fomad Dunedin League hj r the industrial development and expansion of Dunedin. The Alexandra meeting suggested lire desirability of a joint deputation. to the Minister of Agoculunvj while lie is in town. In the Magistrate’s Court an W'-elhngtea Richard Davis was charged with stealing goods from the railway workshops as? I'etonc. and Joshua Warren and Wiffiaui MaJJmder with receiving goods knownrg them to be dishonestly obtained. The, <barge against Davie was dismissed, aarL Warren was fined £3, or fourteen imprisonment. Malbndor was fined SSL, or forty-eight hoots, on one -jharge, aad on lho second charge was third £l4, or. itmx--,x days’ im prison meat. Each acraaed 1 was given .seven days to find the moocy, A; a meriting on Jane 7 of the Corporation of Now Boss, Weifoni. the scene <4 the recent burning of some flags that want alleged to have been Union Jacks, oh member protested strongly against the action of irnsspotkables, who tore down the flags and burned them on the ’S3 monument or. vh<» occasion, of the camivaL He aaH they wore only outriders, who came to iht town. Another member eaad the persooi corn,ei!ied were only looking for chflaj notoriety. The Cdrporstion deckled not 14 take any notice of the aotaqa. and to % nore tI.V- matter. The pronaotans of thf cantlva-i decided on the same coots©. SosbT members stated that the flags were Sm' Zealand flags, and not Union Jacks. Tin Union Jock Club cf London seat to Mi Asquith a resolution in which they strongly pretested against tho seditions action” of “ certain persons at New Boss in hanfing down our country's flag, the Union Jackand publicly burning our flag on the step! o; ,i monument erected to memorialise tin rebel of ’9B. Wc call upon the Governn*?M >■> vindicate the law by fadDM thi-.-e dcpredaioi® to justice, and. to raiuct sat u punishment on them as will he oomnumsiitutc to the honor and dignity which our flair demands.’’