NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 34

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr MTveima) delivered his Financial Statement, Ho said the deficit was £518,000,009, and it had to be made good by receipts other than revenue. The expenditure was nearly three millions daily, and was rising. A loan at the rate of 4|- per cent, was proposed. The following invalided Otago men are returning by the Willochra ; —Otago Infantry Battalion—Allot, Marshbank, Martin, Bell, Shaw, Cook, Willetts, Fraser, Jenkins, Bremen, Poole, Johnson, Parton, and Stanaway. Otago Mounted Rifles—Pye, Messelin, Stewart, Hall, Bromley, Bambery, Read, and White. At Wellington on the 10th Jnst. a young man named James Boyle, a motor car driver, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on a charge of assaulting a constable. The police visited a certain hotel after midnight, and found a number of men there under the influence of liquor. The accused came up behind a constable and struck him violently in the face. Mr Cooper,' S.M., said the police must be protected from young fools. On Wednesday, the 16th Inst., a very largo" number of prominent citizens gathered at Mr D. Latnach’s office to bid farewell to Chief Detective Herbert, who has been transferred to Christchurch. Mr H. ,H. S. White presided, and in a eulogistic speech presented Chief Detcctivo Herbert with a silver purse and cheque for Mrs Herbert. Several other gentlemen, including his Worship the Mayor (Mr J. J. Clark), also spoke, and Chief Detective Herbert suitably replied.