NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Icl'eiEroD'h.—Prps.B Association.) tf- ■ OTACO PORT 1913-14. MARKED EFFECT OF STRIKE Dunpdln, February 5. . The Harbour Board closed its financial »r with, .j credit balance of £13,12!). The total rcccipts, including the cicdit balance,. amounted to £111,2.97 ; the ordinary roveiuio .reached £88,8.53, a, decrease tram l-9j2 o.f £7311, d"° to industrial disturbances jr. the Homeland and tho recent waterside strike, which interfered with anticipatiois Of trade. Tho revenuo fell short of tho estimates by £9000. Ordinary ■expenditure was £93,]93. Tb is interest nig tp note that the rent roll now a-inoUirtg to £12,0]5 .nearly, an. advance Sroo . u,lprft l imports decreased 8033 tons, transliipmenta 1667 tons, tiitiber by over two million suj>er feet-, imports of coal toy .6363 toils'.. & total tonnage of shipping entered during tho rear was 988,195, a decrease of 98,396. Iho number of vessels was 600, a. decrease of 62. The dock department reveals a net deficit of £1530. : The total deficit .prior to this,. however, .amounts, to £6800. Tlio heaviest repairs oxccuted in the dock were on tho Indrabarah. occupying thirty-three working days, dues for. this being £1824, Seveiit.vt'hrfo vessels were handled in the. dock during tlio year, a decrease of seventeen ships, but increased tonnage.

ANOTHER MAN'S LETTER. RECEIVER'S DISHONEST ACT. Dannovlrko, February 5. ' Reginald Stanley Herbert was to-da* committed to tlio Supremo Court for sentence on a, charge of. dßtaiuing a posjal .packet which should liavo been delivered to another person, Mr, Ilerbert, settler, of Pongaroa. Tho latter lvad mailed for five. TaUersall's tickets, anjj on receiving the : letter found oho' ticket missing. This ticket contained a winning number with a prizo of £100 and was in iho name of his daughter, Rose Alma Herbert. Accused had sent a friend to tho post- office for his letters .and had received the .one containing tho tickets arid had endeavoured to obtain the £100 prize. life said that he had been tempted and was sorry for what he had done.

ft RADIUM INSTITUTE. Dunedin, February 5. At a mooting of tlm honorary staff 1 of tho Dunedin Hospital on February 2, a resolution recommending tho tablishment of 3: Radium Instittito:. ,in' Dunedin was unanimously adopted. This _ resolution was brought before a meeting of the Hospital and'.Charitable Did. Board to-night, supported bv a report from the staff, who pointed out that the Dunedin Hospital, as it training school for tho futuro medical practitioners of tho Dominion, should bo equipped with a supply of radium .to moot all requirements, In view of tho extraordinary monetary value of radium this was. a matter of Dominion, and not merely local, imjportaucc. It was resolved to authorise tho members of. tho honorary staff, who will be in 'Wellington iioxfc week, to approach tho Government on the question.

TOO MANY LUMPERS. Auckland, February 6* Tho problem of tho unemployed on tho Auckland waterfront is assuming serious proportions. During the last week there lias been an average amount of shipping in port, and it has. been found that tlicro is constant labour offering for only from 600. to 700 of tht 154 G members of tho union. ' In addition. _ to tlie present-; membership, 20!) applications; are to be considered by. tho committee on Fobrunrv 18. In conse■cjuenco of this tho officials of tho new union do , • WAS HE ELIGIBLE? . ~.. Now, Plymouth, February 6., i: . At the Supreme Court to-day a mot.i.oill was preferred by the Crown to remove William Thomas Jennings from a .scat 6h the Waitara Hai-bou'r Board, on tho grounds that lie was not on tho roll of tho 'Waitara Borwigli at the tiino of liis appointment by the Government. Defendant conducted his own case. Ho maintained that lie was the owner of property in the district when lio was nppointed, his omission from tig toll being merely a clerical error. Ho also objected to pay the costs of tho action. Decision was reserved. RAIN, CROPS, & STOCK. Dunedin, February 5„ Tlio recent heasy tains ;aro roporta{ to havo done considerable damage . to somo of tho Tuieri crops, more particularly _tb those which wore ripe or long in the straw. ■' " . ' . The Bnriisido Freezing Works start operations for tho season on Tuesday, but it is not likely that the supplies wili bo forward, as the recent wet weather has interfered with tlie' fatteiiing of lambs.

DIVORCE CASES. Auckland, February 5. In tho Supremo -Court, decrees nisi ' wero granted in: tho cases Mary Webbe? v.< Gcorgo Webber.; Herbert Sylves- . tcr v, Evelyn Sylvester, desovtion j Eli- , zabcthFraider v. Frank Thorns Fraider, misconduct; Harry Herbert Newport t. Louisa Alieo Newport, misconduct.