MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

FIJIANS TO JOIN THE NEW ZEALANDERS. (Rec. December 1, 7.15 p.m.) Suva, December 1. The Fiji contingent of one hundred men is to joint the New Zealand reinforcement draft. It will sail for Auckland by the Fiona. / 'LUCK AND PROVIDENCE. (Rec. December 1, 5.50 p.m.) London, November 30. The Kaiser, in a birthday telegram to Heir von Bethmann-Hollweg,. said: "Luck is necessary to pilot the ship of State through these stormy times. Providence employs men who light steadily; among these, you occupy first place." ■ FOOTBALL IN WAR TIME. (Rec. December -2, 0.5. a.m.), London, December 1. The Football League has decided to continue its competitions. The London clubs refuse to close while other sports and amusements continue. NO LINSEED OIL FOR GERMANY , ,' VIA HOLLAND. (Rec. December 2, 0.5 a.m.) ' London, December 1. The Government prohibited the export of linseed oil to Holland owing to the belief that it is finding.its way into Germany for use in the extraction of glycerine. GERMAN BREACH OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION. London, November 30. Contrary to the articles of The Hague Convention, Germany is taxing parcels sent to interned prisoners. ""'.; THE FOREIGN YOKE. ■;i>' ' Amsterdam, November 30. states that the inhabitants of Northern Flanders, from 18 to »fo years of age, have been forced to sign a .declaration ■ not ,to fight against- the Germans. BELGIUM'S WAR LEVY'. Amsterdam, November 30. , A telegram from Brussels states that Belgium's war levy has now been fixed at fifteen millions sterling. PERSECUTION OF BRITISH IN -.': GERMANY. London, November 30. i" The "Bayreuth Socialist newspaper "Volks. Tribuene" has been suppressed for appealing to the Reichstag to end the' persecution of the British in Germany. ; MR. KEIR HAEDIE AND WAR : " ENLISTMENTS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, November 30. German sources allege that.a- letter has been recoived from, Mr. Keir Hardie, declaring: "I have never said or written anything to dissuade our young men from enlisting. I know too well all there is at stake." USE FOR ENGLISH RACEHORSE TRAINERS. Amsterdam, November 80. Berlin newspapers explain that several English racehorse trainers have been released from their internment in order to attend the valuable horses belonging to German noblej. . SYDNEY DOCKYARD MEN RESUME. • . - ; Sydney, December 1. The dockyard shipwrights have resumed work conditional on double pay and overtime being granted. (Rec. December 1, 7 p.m.) Sydney, December 1. The dockyard -strike resulted dismissal of two hundred men who had previously been on nightshift work. INDIAN GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME.. . Delhi, November 80. The Government of India, following the British Parliament's example, will omit as far as possible all Bills of a contentious nature in the legislative programme.

Mr. H. B; Courtis, manager of the municipal gas works in Dunedin for many years; is dead, aged 63. Deceased was born in Monmouthshire,, and went out to Victoria with his parents in 1856. His father was a gas engineer, and brought his son up in the same profession. In 1872 he came to New Zealand, and erected, with his father, the gas works at Hokitika, Oamaru, and Timnru. Mr. Courtis was engineer in charge of the Timaru gas works for nineteen years, and took charge of the Dunedin works in 1893. The deceased was a Freemason, president of the_ Otago Cycling Club, and a vice-president of the Dunedin Cricket Club for many years. Mr. D. M.'Findlay, of Wellington, returned from a trip to Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. • Mr.' and Mrs. C. Odlin and Mrs. H. Shaw, of Island Bay, roturned from a trip to Australia by the Moeraki yesterday. .

In tho "Church Chronicle," issued on Monday, appears an extract from a letter which Mr. F. J. Carter, Wellington Diocesan Secretary, lias received from Bishop Wallis, who has been living ill England since he left New Zealand. A few months ago Bishop Wallis wrote that he was stronger than he had, been sinco he left New Zealand. A later letter confirms this by showing he is able to do some work again. "I liavo been going every Sunday- morning of late to take service and preach sermons at a camp about 20 miles off for some recruits to 'Kitchener's new army,' as it is called generally here. There have' been 27,000 there; many of them raw recruits; but they are very keen. They are artisans from Birmingham, many of them. It is very clear they mean work. The- .difficulty has been to clothe them. They como almost in tatters now and then, and it is hard to clothe thoso while-'tlie khakis are being made, and others are quite well clad. I have had to preach to some 3000 in the open air, and to a small number in a largo barrack church. It means about 40 miles motoring, in the motor that I 'bought with tho money the diocese gave me. We have had to hire a chauffeur in tho town, as our man had gone to France." The Bishop adds later: "Mrs. Wallis h quite- well." A story of gallantry on the part of a schoolboy, 14 years of age, comes from Whatawhata (says the Hamilton corres. pondent of the Auckland "Star"). After school on Tuesday afternoon several boys went to Waipa River to bathe. When they had been in'the water some time one of the party, Bert Sandos, screamed and .disappeared. Herbert Parkes immediately went to the rescue, and, with great difficulty, got him within a few yards of the hank. Through exhaustion he was compelled to release his hold, and Sandos again sank. Parkes supported himself for a few seconds on a willow branch, then dived, and again brought his friend to the surface. He eventually succeeded in getting Sandos to tho bank in an unconscious condition. Both boys were taken to the Whatawhata Hotel, whore they received attention, and Sandos was restored to con■'iousness.