NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9210, 2 December 1915, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Hon. J. A. Hanan. Minister for Education, is expected to return from the north on Saturday or Sunday. The Telegraph Office notifies that deferred caoie messages for Italy or for transmission over Italian lines may now bo accepted. Surgeon-General Henderson will give an address on “The Aims and Objects of the British Red Cross,” in the town Hall Concert Chamber next Monday evening. Tile Postal authorities advise that Australian and English mails -dispatched per s.s. Moeraki to Sydney on November 26th arrived on Tuesaaj afternoon. A new regulation gazetted yesterday provides that a sergeant of police may issue the permit required under the War Regulations in connection with the purchase of firearms and ammunition. The hospital authorities reported last evening that the seaman, Millar Mathewson, who was rescued from the harbour on Tuesday night in an exhausted condition, is still an inmate at the institution, but is progressing favourably. Two men, F. Armitage and S. Cross, were arrested yesterday afternoon by Constable Barnett, of the city police, on a charge of stealing a military overcoat, the property of the Government. The accused will appear before the magistrate this morning. “It has been already decided by Cabinet that certain concessions by way of railway privileges shall be made to returned soldiers,” said the PVime Minister last- evening. “But the details of the scheme have to be arranged between the Defence Department and the Railways Department, and a definite statement on the subject will be made within a few days.” A man named* Walter Shearer was admitted to the public hospital yesterday suffering from a severely lacerated hand. Shearer, who lives in Governor road, Northland, was .employed by Messrs Upton and Bond, builders, and received tne injury through his hand being caught in a “buzzer.” The hospital authorities reported last night that Shearer, was progressing satisfactorily. Trooper Lex Caselberg, whose name appeared yesterday in the list of New Zealanders awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery at Gallipoli, is the only son. of Mr Lionel Caselberg, of Wellington. He is an old Wellington College boy. Ho went away from Now Zealand with the Signalling Company, so has evidently been transferred to the mounted branch. A special “Gazette” issued yesterday provides that no person shall bring or send, or cause to be brought or sent, any intoxicating liquor into a camp, or have any intoxicating liquor in.his possession in a camp. Any military officer or constable may seize and destroy any intoxicating liquor which he finds in a camp. The term “camp” means any land occupied or used, or in course of preparation for. occupation or use, as a place for the training or exercise of members of an expeditionary force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1916. The balance-sheet of the Huntly mines disaster relief fund, which has b -en returned as correct from the Audit Department, shows that the total amount collected was £7430 9s. By the addition of £l4l 2s 8d as interest, the total amount available is thus £7571 11s Bd. Of this, £1573 3s 6d was paid to beneficiaries, while £2O 8s 2d, including £b as exchanges in cheques, was spent in office expenses, leaving the sum of £6976 to be administered by the Public Trustee. The Conciliation Council, under the chairmanship of Mr P. Hally (Conciliation dealt yesterday morning with the dispute between the Union Steam Ship Co., Ltd., and the .Uorcnaut Service Guild. The assessors (Mr W. A. Kennedy, for the U.S.S. Co., and Captain F. A. Macindoe, for the guild) stated that a settlement had been reached on all the points at issue except the date from which the new conditions shall come into force. The agreement is to be forwarded to the Arbitration Court to be made into an award. “The praises of the Dominions, and particularly of Now Zealand, were being sung wherever we travelled in England. At the great recruiting meetings in London and elsewhere the insistent note was ‘follow the lead of the colonies.’ ” The foregoing statement was made on his return by the Mature this week by Mr Charles Bagley, n well-known resident of Auckland, who left over a year and a half ago on a trip to England and the Continent. Mr Bagiev was just commencing his travels in Europe, accompanied by his wife and daughter, when Germany precipitated the biggest war in history. At that particular time they were m Norway. “We were fortunate in having a passport from New Zealand," said Mr Bagley, “for it has always been respected. If there was one pleasing feature in our experiences more than another, it was that w» cam* from the Dominion.” ■