25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Long Express Delay (From “Tbe Dominion,’* January 12, 1910.) The up Main Trunk express was again delayed on Saturday through the tablet apparatus on the engine failing to catch the tablet at Levin. The-little block of wood was hit hard by the passing engine, and the result was that the whole of the passengers spent two hours searching for it. It was eventually unearthed in the long grass, and the train bustled into Palmerston at 5.20 p.m. * # * A Chicago court has decided that a landlord's refusal to renew a tenant’s lease owing to the birth of a child to tbe tenant is illegal, because it promotes raw suicide. This verdict has encouraged other tenants to object to the clause in their leases not. allowing children in their flats. ' A four-story building in Manse Street, Dunedin, formerly known as Brown and Ewing’s warehouse, and latterly used as sample rooms by the New Zealand Express Company, was completely destroyed by fire a little after dawn this morning. So far as can be ascertained the total damage exceeds £lO,OOO, A hundred thousand Northumberland and Durham miners are idle owing to the dispute with the colliery owners over the working of the Eight Hours in Aimes Aet. Three thousand have been persuaded to resume work. Lord Mac Donnell. as arbitrator, has reduced the wages of Durham miners by 64 per cent. The owners claimed a reduction of ten percent.