EVERYTHING QUIET.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 13

EVERYTHING QUIET.

IT ECIAL TO "THB TStSS.") DUNEDIN, November 21. The Moeraki is still tied up at the x Birch street wharf, and will remain there until the seamen and firemen provllo her with a crew. In the meantime the position of the Seamen's Union men is that they say individually that they do not want to ship, and no. one ■'•■' seems inclined to dispute their right to take up that attitude. For the came •reason it is doubtful if theCorinna ;•?'.■:tfili got away to-morrow. ; . TlnV morning the arbitrationiste ■ sEaned work at eight o'clock on the Oqrinna. putting into her holds tran- •■: shipments :from the Warrimoo, the Monowai, and the Moeraki.' The hiilk .•■•"•. i'olicita. was' warped 'alongside the 'Corinna to give her sixty, tons of coal wherewith to steam to > Wellington, from which point the transhipments will be distributed;and forwarded to. . their destinations. .Nobody interfered- ; with these operations..The Birch street barricade was' practically deserted by ;;-'.■' the crowd all. the morfting, . the 'police :; on:duty putting , in the time in' social /intercourse. .. • . •'. . <- .'...■ Both" waterside" hotels are closed. A. noteworthy, feature of this strike is that there is.no trouble on .account, of ' drunkenness. . , ". '■ ,: ■» >"" .Eight constables Teached town/last • s night from various- country .districts, not because present force being linable to preserve order, .but so as. to give, relief from, long hours.;. • . Thb .chairman of the.Harbour Board has' countermanded the notice that waa seryed'upon the watersidere to quit,the 1 "•,-■ '"., old building. : ; This counter-. ; nuinding order is acquiesced in, by the police ] and : the," Commerce: Protection i Committee, there being no;w no .reason v iv force the strikers to, move tout. iV". So far neither ; side to the dispute has "opened negotiations for a, settlement. ■;.;•.'• Itjis said that two or three citizens .' have on their own initiative approached '■ •: hath; parties and ! suggested terms, for ■ v peace, but sa far as can be gathered ' theee'overturea have not met with: any' . - .'"practical.encouragement;-In.the mean\j .timei both the men and the employers - '".we keeping; their own.. counsel as to '..: ■':'■'; xyijat is, doing at their own meetings. of coal in Dunedin Tiav- ,- ---< > 'ing been drawn upoix" economically,; are ■•►Avoiding.nut all nght. "The merchants %-fic«r hold no sugar,, but a small ship- , expected , from,Auckland at the of roxt week. Sago, , tapioca, and fruits "are running' low, yet! the .iiinerchante have not as a body put up. and.there,Jβ no prospect : of i\i ■ ihc market setting really bare .for" two ■, V->r tliree wcekis to come. 1