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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 6

After giving evidence last week at tho Invercargill Magistrate's Court in a case in which two men had been charged with unseemly behaviour in a railway carriage from Dunediil' to Invercargill, one of tho witnesses said that, with the permission of the Bench, ho would like to make a statement. It Has, ho said, the second time that ho had been called by the police to give evidence in such cases. Hn was that day an unwilling witness, and considered that the Railway Department should act as its o«n detective and not call peace-loving people to work np the cases. If Ihe Department must carry these drunken passengers, it should provide suitable dog boxes or cattle trucks for thoir accommodation, so that respectable passengers might not suffer annoyance. Drunkenness in trains was becoming an intolerable nuisance, and the Department should take stops to protect the travelling public. A Bay of Plenty bush farm is advertised for sale in this issue. Relatives of soldiers wishing to see their friends arrive or depart in hired transports can now travel between London and Southampton at reduced fares. Measuring respectively 9in., l.jin., and 12in. in diameter, tho thre ebell-domes of the whistles of the White Star liner Olympic are the largest of their kind ever .made,