DUTCH LINER SUNK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2578, 28 September 1915, Page 5

DUTCH LINER SUNK

By Tclezraph:—Prcoa Association—Copyright (R-ec. September 27, 6.15 p.m.) London, September 26. The.Dutch liner'Efmdijk has beensunk. The crow were landed.! IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. ' INDIAN EEPBESENTATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times! 1 and Sydney "Sun" Services.)! London, September 24. "The Times's" correspondent at Simla states that the' Viceroy's acceptance of & resolution asking that India be; officially represented at the Imperial Con> fereuee: causes universal satisfaction. India has keenly felt the invidiousness of. her position in respect to past Conferences, and welcomes the prospect.of a regular status._ . .. . The Viceroy is confident that tho Dominions will regard the matter from a wider angle of vision, the same as other Indian questions, making Indians con- . 6cious that they are members of a world partnership under the same. flag.

To dig a hole in Queen Street underneath a two-storoy building and catch an eel sounds very like a fishy tale, but that is precisely w3iat i occurred last week (say.s the Auckland "Star") Workmen were engaged at the work of digging foundations for tho front portion of the New Zealand Insurance Buildings, and a hole some eight feet deep had been excavated at the lower corner for the purpose of under-pinning the National Insurance building. Sea mud and shells were lifted and some old timbers rovealed, which would seem to indicate that in the early daye of-Auck-land there must, have teen a rough landing formed on the bank of the gully whore Queen Street now lies. This hol'u . got' filled with water,- and men wero engaged with a windlass and buokets emptying it, when they brought up a live eel several inches in length; Whore- it oama from and how it got thero is an ■ iatarestipg .mwtjou!