LATE DOMINION NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 3

LATE DOMINION NEWS.

PRISONERS' COMPLAINTS. ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION". WELLIN GTON, Sept. 26. The latest news, as read in the Terrace Gaol, is finding it=. way there via Mount Cook brick I;''.<:. Between the prisoners at the I,:'. :;\v.);-..■■ =..i.i the outer world there apjK-ai.s t;> be constant communication. Last evening .".

copy oi a newspaper reporting tbef'•:■ iw. tog away of rations was fovn.l' <.-n a prisoner returning from Mount Cook. The object of the prisoners to enlist public sympathy was thus gained, but apparently it did not go far enough, for to-day more bread was flung away in Willis Street as the prisoners marched to Mount Oook, and inside the bread more notes, similar to the others, were concealed; but there was a warder mi waiting to receive the bread and notes. This was an unexpected move on the part of the prison authorities. It is not thought that the bread was thrown •way in order to create a diversion and so effect an escape, but rather to keep the prisoners in the public eye. However, the doctor of the gaol and the contractor made an examination of the bread, and found it, sweet, wholesome and unexceptional in quality. When the prisoners were being marched "home" this afternoon they adopted passive resistance tactics and refused to walk along the street. The warders were for a time but eventually got the men to the gaol in sections. While eome of the men were awaiting their turn to be ooralled a ■.fairly large crowd of people collected, •fctracted by the unusual proceedings. One of the prisoners then harangued the onlookers at intervale. He said they did not complain so much about tihe quality of the bread served to them, ft was the quantity they objected to. They wanted more. He also declared that sugar was served in too small a •quantity, and drew a very dark picture of the sanitary arrangements m the gaol, winding up with an appeal that ttie matters- complained of should be investigated. By this time the warders who had escorted the first batch of •prisoners "home" returned and the complaining orator and his fellows were induced with some difficulty to walk up the hill. It is t understood that the men responsible for this morning's breadthrowing will be punished.

AVIATION IN NEW ZEALAND. MARTON, Sept. 26. This morming and afternoon highly •uooesaful flights were made in Mr Hector McKenzie's hydro-aeroplane by his brother Seaforth, a youth of 16 years, who in the morning rose 60ft for a quarter of a mile and in the afternoon rose 20ft tor 500 yds. This is considered 'highly satisfactory and longer flights are to be made when he becomes accustomed bo the machine.