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Evening Star, Issue 18159, 27 December 1922, Page 4

At the Police Court this morning, before Mr 11. W. Bundle, SAL, Henry Walker Davis was charged with drunkenness and also with having broken three and a-half dozen drinking glasses and one water decanter, ot' a total value of £3 6s, the property of Duncan F. Work. On the first charge accused was fined ICs, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, and on tho Second was fined 20s and ordered to mqko good tho damage. William George Riddell was fined 20s for drunkenness, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; and two other offenders were each fined 5s for a like offence, in default twenty-four hours. Operations were resumed on tho Dunedin waterfront at 8 a.m. today, and good progress was made by the watcrsiders engaged to work tho overseas steamers Maimoa antj Kent, the Union liner Paloona, and the coaster Breeze. There was a shortage of labor, only three gangs being available for the Maunoa, two or three gangs for the Paloona, and one gang for tho Breeze. It is hoped to finish off tho Kent to-day. in which case she will go to Pork Chalmers to-morrow to commence loading for the United Kingdom. The Paloona’s holds will probably be cleared by to-night, and she will then go to Port Chalmers to lay up. Tire Breeze will sail on Friday for way ports and Wanganui. There were no shipping movements at Dunedin on Monday, yesterday, and today. Two or three of the shipping offices opened their doors this morning to conduct urgent business, but closed again at midday. Very few vessels are expected until after tho New Year holidays, and the waterfront consequently will not be busy until about the middle of next week.

The boating shed of the defunct “ Dabs ” (Dunedin Amateur Boating Club), which was purchased by tho Macandrew’s Bay Boating Club and removed by the Harbor Board engineer from its site at Vauxhall to Macandrew’s Bay, proved a boon yesterday to tho club during the regatta. It provided room for the housing of the rowing boats and for the oarsmen to undress, and also gave space for tho secretary’s office. The shed has been thoroughly renovated and painted, and presents an attractive appearance. On the walls of the inside are still to be seen the honors boards of the D.A.8.C., these being viewed with great interest yesterday by old-time and present oarsmen. Portion of the funds of tho old club, which has now formally gone into liquidation, have been expended in a silver challenge cup, to be competed for annually by the maiden fours at the Macandrew’s Bay Regatta. In tho first race for Die trophy yesterday the winning crew was from tho Otago Rowing Club. This was particularly pleasing to all oarsmen, because it was the first race an Otago Club crow has won for several years.

Two young men appeared; at the police station at about 8 o’clock last evening with their faces, hands', and clothes very badly burned. They were in a state of collapse, and had to be removed to Die hospital. They made a statement to the effect that they had broken into an office in the city and had picked up a jar which they let fall. An explosion resulted, and they were covered with some powerful acid. A young man named Roy Rolfe accidentally trod on a large snake while at work near Coolamon, in Now South Wales. It bit him on the bade of his left arm. Rolfo grabbed the snake by tho neck. After several attempts he unwound the snake from his arm, bub it coiled its body around his neck and struck at his face sev-eral times. Rolfe, however, had his right hand free, and kept the snake irom biting his face. After a time ho was able to break its back. He scarified the wound, Dod his boo Dace round his arm, and started to walk to the homestead. Before reaching the house he collapsed. A doctor was summoned, and Rolf© was taken to tho hospital in a state of coma. Ho soon recovered. <

It pays better to be a promoter of strikes than an unpaid striker. An Australian contemporary gives some interesting figures {is to the remuneration of the members of the Council of Action, tho Communistic administration set up by the AH-Australian Labor Conference a year ago. Their salaries ns union secretaries, organisers, and advocates range from £312 to £624 per ®nnum. wrta pickings in travelling expenses. Eleven members of the council collectively draw £5,000 a year from the workers, whoi keep the strikepromoters in comfort while they and their families do the starving during a strike. An agitator with a sure £6OO a year, wet or dry, can well afford to. urge a unionist to tighten bis belt and fight for freedom. A storm is blowing np on the horizon' of tho racing world. It may produce a fluster not only amongst sportsmen, but in other circles. The trouble is as to tho identity of a trotting mare, and certain persons are cited to appear before the Trotting Association. Mr J. F. Hammorly. for years in the detective force at Dunedin, was entrusted by the association with, the duty of compiling the evidence, and the forerunning rumors concerning the matter lead) to tho opinion that the truths unearthed constitute a storv ns strange as many a tale of fiction. Trotting men are on the tiptoe of expectation.

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