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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2199, 11 July 1914, Page 5

11l connection with the dispnte between the Hauke's Bay Branch of tho Amalgamated Society of Carpontors' and Jjmiois, and the employers in tho ndustry, the demands of tho worLois have been filed with tho Clerk ' of Awards' (Mr. G. S Clark) In the main the demands are similar to those pub forwaid in other centres, a week of forty-four hours being asked for iVyith wages at the rate of Is 6d per hour , • _ A shopkeeper, whose promises are situated near a Taranaki stream, saw aniinteresting encounter the other day Hearing a splashing in tho water, he looked out of a back window and observed a water rat and an eel in combat. After a long struggle tlie water rat sewod tho eel by the head, ani ovontunll) dragged it to shore Tho last the shopkeeper saw of tho two combatants vns tlio water rat towing tho eel to a hole in the bank, evidently the rodent s headquarters. The excess of' the departures from New, Zealand over the arrivals during May last uas 918 The drpaiturea neio 37.i0 and tho arrivals 2812 Tn Miv of 1013, the departuios numbered 31)1, and the arrivals 305G The hcavlesi traffic list May was with New South Wales 'lhe arrivals from that State wero 17,51, mid tlio dcpaifcures to it were 2493 Tho gieatest number of dcrnrturos foi tho month was from Wei ingloii (im, as against 1140 fiom Auckland) The numboi of people N «lni-h sailed from' Wellington was 3012, and tho number from Auckland 1115 "You cannot In ing children up hko a regiment of soldiers, an<! it is useless to try," roimiked Mr F V Frizer, , S.M., to a defendant in tlie Auckland Police Court Tlio Magistral said ho in discipline foi children, but it was impossible to bung them up a<; if tlio-i worn in a mihtarv bariacks If t> rill Id wilfully disohcKd its pments, then, of com so *t must bo corrected "You ran hive film discipline for cbildT(>n without bemrr ciuel to them," lemarked His Worship, m conelusion In the course of his address at the Town Hall iVt evening, Mr Din Crnwford, tho missionary from Contril Afuci, interested his hoaren, by stating tint the natives of that part of the world know of no such place in the world as Africa Tim mine thej γ-vo their country was "Visono via kulcpo," which, interpreted, meant "tho lon£ grasr "