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Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 5

The following letter has b*e,n sent;. to Captain Newton, the officers, engineers, and crow of the s.s. Waikare by Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Chip Company :—" I clesiio to take this oportunity of expressing to the captain, officers, engineers, and crew of the late s<s. Waikare the directors' appreciation of the fine work done by them on the occasion of the wreck of the ship in Dusky Sound on Tuesday, January 4. The occasion was one which called upon them for the exercise of the best qualities, and it i 3 most gratfying to the directors to know that in every ease they acted like men, and that, by the combination of their efforts and the favourable circumstances ,pf time arid weather, not a single casualty took place. While opportunities offered fop individuals to render specially valuable service's, all the ship's company were actuated by the. same spirit, and I am glad to thank them and to place their conduct on record." Under the will of the late Mr George Young, of Edinburgh, a legacy of £SOO is given to the DunedLn Hospital. Several churches in the deceased gentleman's native district near Edinburgh also benefit. Under the will of the late Mary Thorn, of Mcsgiel, the Salvation Army in Dunedin benefits to the extent of £IOO (for the purpose? of the home for destitute* children in Dunedin), and the Presbyterian Social Service Association receives a liko amount for the Presbyterian Orphanage in Dunedin. At the half-yearly meeting of the Dunedin Operative Bootmakers' Union, held on Tuesday evening, a letter was received from the secretary of the New Zealand Coal Miners' Federation requesting a dona-* tion in aid of the Newcastle coal miners* strike fund 1 . It was unanimously decided to vote the sum of £lO. The latest firc-ala:m, the Reiehel Auto, matic, invented by Mr L. T. Reichel, lata; chief electrician in the Public Works Da-. partment, works on an entirely nenl principle—that of thermo-electricity, in which a current of electricity is generated by the direct application of heat to certain metals. The Reichel fire-alarm is con-. sidered by Mr Holmes, the engineer-in*, chief, and Captain Hugo, to be the besfc system they have inspected. Although th* apparatus has been but two months on tha. market,. two large buildings in Wellington | are already beiwg equipped with the SJ% tern. % The Koonya, coal-laden from Westporti* reached the Bluff at 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Sh<ji visited Dusky Sound en route, and brought away the remainder of the salvage party, left at the wreck of the Waikare; also the, material salvaged by them. The wreok is now completely abandoned. The. haftdV Janes of the vessel were still visible abova water when the party left the Sound late, on. Monday afternoon. An Invercargill message states that, by direction of Lloyds and the Union Steam Ship Com-: patty, the hull and contents of the vessel aa she lies oi? Stop Island will be sold at Invercargill on February 9. In the proficiency examination results foi Waliar; School, published on the 18th, th< name of Robert Niehol inadvertently ay* pe.u '.'A for that of Siobert M'lnryre.