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Evening Star, Issue 16086, 11 April 1916, Page 4

The Mayor has received word that the Alitor;* will be berthed at Bunecliu at 1.50 on Saturday afternoon. Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., presided in the Police Court this morning. Margaret Eva Bruce was fined 10s for drunkenness or 4B hours. John Smith was charged willi at Glenavy stealing a bicycle valued at £6. The chief detective said it was a particularly mean theft. Accused borrowed the bicycle from a mate, rodo it, to YYainuite, and there sold it for 255. Xothing was known against him. His Worship convicted accused and ordered him to come up for sentence any time within 12 months. Ho was also ordered to refund the 255. Our Cromwell correspondent wires: Anion:; tlie stalkers returning from the deer forest is Mr Theo. Russell, of Oamarii, who yestordiiy came in with a record head, said to be the finest ever secured in the Dominion. It is a 21-pointer. with a massive trunk and bcautr'ful spioad. It was -secured in maiden country towards Mount Aspiring. Peculiarly, if was the only head secured in that locality. A new instance—one of many—of the consideration ami kindness .shown to Australians and New Zcalandcvs by their compatriots in England is related bv a correspondent, who writes from Dundee : "I may tell you there was a military funeral her© one day lately—-p.u Australian lad. He died in one of the war hospitals, and had no friends in this country. Mr ——, the undertaker who had charge of the funeral, had the remains of the lad brought home to his own house, to let the lad's yeoplo know lie was not forgotten, though in a, strange place. A notice was put in the paper.-; asking any Australians to attend the funeral should they he in town, and a wealthy gentleman, just hero on holiday, hearing of the- dead lad's condition, came and took a father's place at the funeral. After all was over this gentleman undertook to write to fho la d'.s people, describing their boy's burial. My word, you -should have seen the interest taken in the funeral, ar.d the piles of flowers sent in from everywhere to bedeck the last resting-placA of one who was not, until too late .alas! found to be so lonely. Rudder was bis name, but I don't remember what part of Australia he came from." There was a largo attendance at the union meeting on Saturday evening /states thoKoitnngata correspondent of the Balclutha ' Free Preys'), when the somewhat tangled situation arishw/ out of the £HX) vote to Broken Hill strikers and the resignation of the union officials gave rise to much discussion. The resignations of the officers were accepted, and the following were elected to fill the vacancies : President, Mr Tlobt. Penman: secretary. Mr "Win. Braidwood; treasurer, Mr J. Fenton : Executive Committee*—Messrs Win. Proctor, John Ramsden, "Wni. Cairns, and J. Bahren. The only motion which was agreed to was to the effect that the Prime Minister be requested to have tbo Arbitration Act amended so that unions can disburse their funds as they think fit, and that the Labor members of the House bo asked to support such an amendment. There were about 50 present at the meeting. The threatened trouble at the Taratu mine w<-rs satisfactorily cettlcd at a conference on Tuesday last between Messrs : Oheeseman (general manager) ana I. Shore (mine manager) and the men. The men's demand for an increase in ivagts was fully gone into, and the companyagreed to grant a 10 per cent, rise all round, the increase to bo in force until the conclusion of the war. The men then withdrew their fortnight's notice to terminate their engagement with the company, arid there is every reason to believe that things will move along in tho old amicable way Balclutha . ' Free Prcs3.'

Mr Paulin's forecast:— ! Strong N.E. winds and fine. • An Australian paper has published an amusing account of 'My First Day,' supposed to be written by a young woman /"■ho had taken tho place "of a railway porter who had enlisted. She found that "luggage-lugging" was not her only occupation. She was supposed to be a walking encyclopaedia, of information about trains, times, and platforms, and to receive com- | plaints about the. general management and details of the whole railway system. Among tho questions asked was one from a- small boy as to whether his Auntie Nellie had arrived. A rather inebriated gentleman who had misled his train was anxious to know if his wife, had caught it. A nervous old lady wanted to know if there, wciv many neople killed on the line by which s'lio was going to travel, and if tho engine-driver and signalmen wore all total abstainers. These -were a few among many of tho questions she was supposed to answer. She found that most people adhered carefully to tho rule of tipping the railwav employees, and although she put through a. great quantity of luggage, >at the. end of the day she found herself possessing tho munificent Mim of half a crown all told. The dining car service on I'.e main lines of the Government railways is the subject of some, comment in the late-1 issue of the ' N<wv Zealand Railway Officers' Advocate.' Commenting editorially on the service, the 'Advocate' says: "Wo pointed out some years ago that tho New Zealand .system of collecting tho charges for meals on the train is many years behind the times, and urged the need for installing suhable cash registers in the dining cars. The alleged need for ticket inspsctors, audit, inspectors, assistant, traffic manager.s, tmd goodness knows how many similar officials keeping a closo watch on a boy "who h.<t,s about three months' .service to his credit, to see that he does not fail to collect from all passengers using the dining car, would not then exist. If decent standard meats cannot be supplied for 2s, tlm trouble should be met by the simple "expedient of an increase in the charges." It is reported (says tho 'Bruce Herald') that the Waronui miners have requested the Conciliation Commissioner to attend at Waronui at an early date to arrango preliminaries in connection "with a new award. Unlike Taraiu, the mine has been working under the Arbitration Act. the last award having expired some time ago. In illustration of the feeling in the United States in regard to the European war, we have been permitted to make the following extract from a letter received by the last mail. Tho writer is a well-known educationist in the State of Massachusetts, who says: "Of course, the war absorbs all our thoughts here, as it does with you in New Zealand. While tho sentiment here in the New England Slates is strongly pro-Ally—-even more ..strongly so, some visitors from Europe have told us, than in England and Franca —this is not the ease, in the. great Middle West. There the war seems so remote that interest is not as keen as it is on the Atlantic coast, nnd sentiment; is divided, it is a very diflicull problem which our Administration have to faco in dealing with tin! various situations which arisa front the war. Of course, we all understand that the action of our Covernmenfc has alienated the good-will of both sides in tho great world war. it has unfortunately led io the feeling that the. motive underlying our Administration's action is a commercial one. That, however, is the furthest possible from the real situation." William Francis Dunn, formerly cashier in the employ of the Christchurch City Council, was arrested yesterday at Auckland on a charge of misappropriating £940, the properly of the Christchurch Corporation. Dunn had £7B in his possession when arrested, and had registered at the Thames Hotel under a different name. He appeared in Court to-day, and was remand'.'d to Christchtu'ch. No bail was asked for. The Prime Minister says there is a reasonable hope that the Rangatira, now ashore at Cape Town, will be refloated; also that the Matatua, damaged by explosion at St. John, will be in commission again. Tie understood that the latter had already been refloated. Delay was unavoidable, but he, believed he would be aide to meet the demands for space. At a meeting of the committee of the Ota go Early .Settlers' Association the following resolution was passed :—" It having come to the notice of the committee that a statement has been made in the Citv Council that the Early Settlers' Association had no objection to the name of the Main North road, from the Gardens to Normauby, being changed to Often street, the committee wish emphatically to state that such is not the case. The minutes of the special meeting to consider the question show that it was resolved that the name .Main North was to stand. The committee regret that the council did not ('outer with the Otago Early Settlers' Association as publicly promised, and that no representative of the City Council has so far asked for a conference with the Early Settlers' Association." "We license the herds and dairies." said the Minister of Agriculture to a deputation of Wellington dairymen on Saturday. " but we have nothing to do with the retailers. Anything might happen to Cue milk in transit. It might lain, for instance." Iti the course of a conversation with an 'Oamaru Mail' representative, the Don. W. ]>: S. MacDoiwld stated that it was the intention of the. department, to establish experimer.ial farms in the South Island. The number would most likely be three, and the localities, would be determined by tiie. climatic conditions. ']' he circumstances in "the South Island varied cnnsiderahlv as regards rainfall and fertility, and 'all the.-e. had to be considered in eoiij»nctinu with the areas enjoying a, similarity of conditions. It was the department's, policy to !es>cn the size of individual farms; instead of adhering to the principle of groat areas, such as Rualrnra, wh.-rj the experiments cover some 600 acres. Lessons in frv.it culture are not lost eight of, and farms for this, purpose have been established in the North Island, win >e valuable information had been obtained. One of the questions put on Friday night at Wellington to Mr F. J. Mouai, «. candidate tor re-election to the. Public Service Appeal Board, was whether it was right for "Mr J. H. Richardson, Government Insurance Commissioner, and a member of tint Appeal Board, to adjudicate upon appeals from officers of the, <j overtime nt Insurance Department. Mr Mouat replied that Mir Richardson was appointed by Ifis Excellency the Governor. lie (the candidate) believed that the power of the Governor to make an appointment earned with it. a power of revocation, so that it v.-as competent for Mr Richardson to ask the Governor to relieve him of his. duties. in so far as appeals from Government Insurance officers were, concerned. Mr Mouat said that ho understood that there was provision in the Acts Interpretation Act allowing this to be done. _lfc would appear that there will bo some diflicnlty ia making up the shortage of 59 men in the Otago quota of the 15th Reinforcements. Tho draft will be sent forward on Thursday, but so far only 10 men (seven of whom are from Dunedin) are available. Oamaru, which had a. lug .shortage or something like 30. has not so far found one recruit. Is it not high time that the Dunedin Recruiting Committee, told tho country districts plainly that for the future Dunedin refuses" to be saddled with the responsibility of finding recruits to make up the shortages for tho entire Otago district ? It is an open secret that the country groups are not at all keen on sending men away to make ur> shortages, as doing so has the effeot of reducing their strengths for tho succeeding quotas. Tho Otago men who reached Auckland yesterday by the Turakina- will arrive in Dunedin to-morrow. The time of their arrival depends upon which train tho ferry steamer connects with. At the Port Chalmers Court this morning, before Mr N, Dodds, J.P., a first offender was convicted and discharged for drunkenness.

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