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Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 36

There is nothing fresh to record recrardInsr the troublo "with the Green Island miners, who are still out on strike. In the meantime local supplies of coal arc getting 6hort, as in the absence of supplies from Green Island the small

stocks of other coals in hand have had to be requisitioned. There does not appear any great likelihood of tho shortage being relieved in the near future either, as tho Green Island mine proprietors resent very much the manner in which they wore treated by tho miners when they decided to leave their employment, notwithstanding that tho miners, with the owners, had subscribed their names to abide by an agreement come to under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that Sir James Allen has received a telegram from the High Commissioner stating that the Admiralty cannot give a definite date for ✓the demobilisation of the Motor Boat Patrol, but it will iako place as early as possible.

The Zeppelin is declared by Lieutenant: colonel Vere Bettington, D. 5.0., Aeronautical Advisor fo the New Zealand Government, to have great possibilities as a peacetime carrier (says the New Zealand Herald). There was every prospect of the airship being employed as a passenger vessel for trans-oceanic travel, he said, the speed with which they can bo driven making this modo of transit highly desirable. While endeavouring to enter Wellington on Friday night the steamer Bessa struck a rock. It was at first thought that the vessel had entered Chaffer's Passage by mistake, but it is now understood that she was in the main channel, and that the port side struck the outer edge of Barrett's Reef. Water at first made slowly, but about 10 p.m. there seemed danger of the vessel sinking in the stream, so she was berthed at Queen's wharf immediately. The damage is not so extansive as was originally thought. The ship's cargo includes 1100 tons for "Wellington, the remainder being for Australian ports. The Bessa is a steamer of 6000 tons net, built in 1917 at Alameda, California, and owped by the Wilholmsen Navigation Company, of Tonsberg, Norway.

A romantic episode in relation to the Gallipoli campaign is brought into special prominence' in a despatch received recently from the A.I.F. Healquarters, London, by the Acting Minister of Defence in Australia. "After the Anzacs had established themselves upon Gallipoli," relates an English newspaper, " the Second Australian Brigade was removed to the southern portion of the peninsula to co-operate with British troops in tho operations of early May. The brigade gained its objectives, but lost heavily .One of the soldiers found a photograph of a girl on a portion of the fought-over ground and the picture so impressed him that he has retained it ever since. Coming, over to England for his first leave in February last, he showed the photograph to a canteen worker, saying that though it seemed impossible that he should do so, he would like to meet the original of it. The lady said the picture greatly resembled a friend of hers, and offered to arrange an introduction. The Australian is now married. The photograph wa.3 identified as one that had been given by the lady it depicted to her husband, who w'as killed in the Gallipoli operations. But the widow is not sacrificing the memory of her dead husband nor discarding her weeds. The photograph was taken years ago, and it is the daughter of the original and the dead soldier that, the Anzac will take back with him to Australia."