NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 52

NEWS IN BRIEF.

! The London transport workers are now prepared to aeiept any settlement ot the strise tnat will ensue the payment ot tne average wages. & v. Advice from Rotorua to the effect *nat the Xioii. J. A. Millar's condition is omproving, and that with care meee is every prospect of his sight being fully restored. Owing to the rowdint*s ot the stutients -at the recent capping ceremony at Auckland the Professorial Board oi the Auckland University recommend thai the ceremony be suspended for at least one year. The cry of " unemployed" is raisad in Chiuscchuich. From 100 to 120 unskilled labourers are said to be out of work, while otliers are only casually employed. Medical men and undertakers, interviewed at Ghrisichurch, expressed their farm wn--victkm that instances of persons being buried before life was. quite extinct were very Tare. Thev -never had a. case <Jf nremature burial during their experience in New Zealand. . Kepoiis o» Durglaries and robberies -continue to be received irom New' South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. A masked and armed burglar was captured in -a Melbourne Hotel, but was allowed ' to depart by the licensee, who was unaware of the facts. Burglars secured ±-100 trom *,he Fresh. Food and Ice Gompan-y s premises in Sydney. Two men who had taken £4O worth of jewellery from Laurenston House were found to have masks and a burglar's outfit. Norman Edwin Sells, said to be a New .Zea Lander, who had a cottage at Manly, was arrested and found to have a revolver in his possession. Burglars blew open the strongroom at Adelaide University, but missed the , cashbox. ._■ Mr Pryor, the secretary of the Jfflm- ! ployers' Association, has given to the i press copies of the letters which were forwarded to the Hon. G. Laurenson, Minil.ster of '.Labour, concerning the prosecution I of the principals concerned in the Wel- | lington tramway strike. The first letter was 'sent to the Minister on April 23. In S this the Advisory Board of the associa- | tion expressed regret that no steps hadi been taken to deal with the flagnant j breaches of the law. This failed to bring a reply, and a second letter was forwarded I on May 28, setting forth reasons why action I should be taken, and pointing out that -the time limit within which action could bo , taken was comparatively short. No reply ! was received to this letter, so* on June 12 i intimation was sent to the Minister that it was intended to publish copies of the j letters forwarded.