NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Fjgsb AHgoclatlou,) CHEERS FOR FLAG, ANTW/iaiTARiST HOWLED DOWN. /■ v Auckland, Juno 12. The crowd took charge of a meeting ip. Devonport Hail last night at which Bog. Williams, .'in anti-militarist, nttempted to deliver a lecturoj illustrated by pictures showing war horrors. Fifty cadets carrying rifles marched in anil occupied the throe front seats. Williams was not given a hearing, 'i'-ho crowd sang patriotic songs and popular .choruses. The lecturer, persisting, was repcaiiedJ.v counted out wills shouts which shook the. building, the cadets beeping tinw with their rifle butts on the floor. One ; of the audience remarked that the lecturer ought to lie sh«t. Williams rei plied that lie was a rifleman, and lie invited any of his interrupters to adjourn to a neighbouring paddock. There was a chorus of shouts of acceptance, but the lecturer contented himself with another effort. Ho cut off his speech and continued to show the pictures amid ft constant din of singing, whistling, nwl stamping. Tho meeting «uded in, disorder, the crowd giving cltccrs for the Union Jack. counterflTtTng plant. POLICE SEIZE~MOOLDS & METAL. Auckland, Jfiino 12. A complete set of moulds for. making counterfeit sovereign l ;, half-crowns, and shillings was discovered at the residence of Frederick A. Smith, on Hairiiii Settlement, near Te Avanmtu. The paJTce found in a wliaro twelve fiiiis of moulds for half'crownsi one for sovereigns, three for shillings, also a quantity of lead, solder, flies', rasps, and ladles. Tl» coins seized by the police are described as excellent work, the baseness only being detected by the. ring. Smith appeared at tlio Ooart at To Awawitu on a charge of making and i attempting to . utter counterfeit- coin. | Th-e defence was in the direction that | Smith was not sane. Smith was commit- j ted for trial at Hamilton, I

SENS ATI ON A L FIRE-FIC HTINC, WOMAN BADLY INJURED. Ounetlin, June 12. A fire which occurred in u block ofshops with residences overhead, after midnight, in George Street, was of a sensational rather than a serious char' acter, Hie outbreak originated apparently in the developing room of an American electric photographic studio among some materia] which caused dense smoke, .which seriously alafmed the residents ' in the two dwellings upstairs served Itf one exit. The rescue by tho Fire Brigade was both exciting and very difficult,'having' to bo effected from the windows overlooking a glass-roof verandah. One wdman and three children were safely rescued, hut Mrs. Carter, who is in a deli'. oaio condition, jrimp;'d out of tho arms of the JSro Superintendent and fell through the glass roof. Sljc received it severe cut on the thigh, and is suffering from severe shock. The actual, dam* age to t}ie premises was not serious. "A DEEP-SEA PORT." NEW PLYMOUTH CELEBRATIONS. New Plymouth, Juno 11 At a luncheon given fey the Harbour Board to-day in honour of the arrival of s,s. Walkuro, tho first direct steamer to bottli at the part, over two hundred prominent importers, exporters, dairy cc mpany men, farmers, and members oi' local bodies, assembled. A lengthy toast, ftst/was lienouredj during which matiy optimistic speeches were made,. and the opiviicis th.it .Ne\v X 3 iyi&KHith tumid infallibly become this deep-sea. ■ port for tho whole province. WEST 00 ASt TENURES. Westjjeri;, Juno 12. iliG Crown Lands T«utt-rcs Comuiissioix sat at West-port this afternoon and heard evident® by Messrs. 0. U. Maesay, A. K. H. Donaldson, and W. H. Bowater, mainly eouccrtriitg the disabilities under which settler* and saw»illers laJwar ttttdcr existing conditions let talcing up and holding land. One witness stated that the rents which ■settlors had to pay for "West Coast- land were too hijrti considering the poor na- ■ turo. of much of it. A man spent (» s I'iu in' improving it, awl yet only got'a bate living, if that, from it, una the; State far a.l> time got tho benefit from the. improvements. B« considered that the rent should be very small in eases : whew bush land of poor quality was taken up until that, land was in a position to give- the holder some" retain for his money.

MORE SHAW ECHOES. Tisnaru, June 12. The. Supreme Coart- was occupied all day to-tiny iu hearing two eases aris'ui" «ut of th© ibhaw bankruptcy. In am tiio plaintiff claimed the Jelea.se of a mortgage for £300) which, lie said, he bad paid to Shaw as agent for the leader, but the! lattet had never raceived it. Tlie other was a very .complicate! cross deal in houses noisotiatcd by Shan- and ■cut short by his_ bankruptcy. Plaintiff claimed for .specific perfbriiianeo, and eiglii lawyers were engaged ill this ease, including Mr. Raymond, K.C., and Mr! A. S..Adams, of IMiediu. Decision was reserved in both eases, Another Shaw case comes on to-nio-mw. MATRIMONIAL MATTERS, Napier, June 12. Decrees nisi were grunted in the tellotting divorce eases Joshua Pattoson i Man \gncs Pattfesoa and John Takes (misconduct); Jonathan Ball. v. Lena Ball (desertion); Jjiekard Ratmrt . Ejt-tertttaster v. Clara KittC'i'master (de-" sertkm). In the case. «f Robert Ken 1 v. Martha Kerr, judgment was reserved. A breach of promise case, Ella Aimio Jonsttn v. Edvrard Thomas Cottrell, claim £530, was settled by an agreeffieilt to pay £129. « FORTY SHILLINGS DAMAGES. Wanganui, June 12. 11l tlso Supremo Court to-Bayi Alex. Herbert Wilkie-, k>rn-,i«h Com.jcilter «if Qhakitne, eWtnod £23!) Jnm Patriot IHume, late proprietor «f the Ohnfcmic "Times," in' respcct to iiii alleged libel contained in a letter published ii-i that paper. Tho case was heard before His Hwia-Ur Mr. Justice Edwards ahiiir-. Forty shilliass damages trere awarded.