DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 6 December 1916, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

'■*&» ALLEGED SHEEP-STEALING. Per Press Association. Marion, December 4. j At tlie Police Court to-day, Charles L. Kreegher, of Kakariki, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Palmerston North, charged with stealing 80 Romney ewes, in lamb, the property of the trustees of the Weston Estate. Bail was allowed, accused in £IOO, and two sureties ol £IOO each. Accused’s brother is also awaiting trial on a similar charge. OUR WAR EXPENDITURE. [ Wellington, December 5. | A si ate I limit of the Dominion war iidirun- from the outbreak of hostilities to September 110 shows the j total to he £12,400,589. The prinei--1 pal items are: Pay, £5,396,113; transport, £2.090,277; equipment, £1,190,'‘491; rations, £058,875; camps, recruiting, £339,891; forage, £327,713 ; hospital ships, £205,317; home defence, £220,510; purchase of horses, £200,313.

. THE BLACKBALL-PAPAROA STRIKE. I Greymouth, Deeember 5. Tlic Blackball-Paparoa coal-minors nrc stlil out on strike. A meeting ol Blackball mineis last night decided 1" remain out to the end ol ibis week, ami await developments, d lie truckers demand an additional 7i per cent. The truckers wove formerly paid 10s (id. and now they receive Us Od, ineluding a K> per cent, war bonus. The demand is to make tlie truckers wages up re Ids 3d. .Meanwhile the rmners’ maximum wage is fixed by the union at 17s cd, including a bonus of 10 per emit.