VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[ftV TELEGR A I'll— -ER PRESS ASSOCIATION ] I SEAMEN FINK'D. 5 i WELLINGTON, July 7 j At this week’s meeting of t lie Seamen’s Union a resolution was adopted tilling three members for delaying the siear.or JMnram.a at Papeete on May 'Uli £2 os each. Anntlier member was fined Cl2 3s (id by the union for delaying the steamer Knkapo at the Bluff rn June 4. The amount includes the cost entailed by Sunday sailing. The Union Company had asked the union to f rego the oivw’x extra pay for Sunday departure, which the union declined to accede to. Absence from the ship oeca- : imr.’d the delay in both instances. KILLED BV TRAIN. AUCKLAND, July 8 An unknown man. middle-aged, was killed by a train near Grcenlane station this evening. DEATH IX HOSPITAL. NELSON, July 8. John D asbury. forty-one, single, died in the hospital as the result of an accident at Lower .Mmilere. Deceased is said to have a sister in the Wellington district. BARQUE OVERDUE.

I AUCKLAND, July 8 Shipmasters navigating the Tasman Sea have been asked, to keep a look-out, for the barque .James Craig, out from Auckland forty-eight days for Melbourne with a cargo ol sawn timber, j She is under the command of Captain I Purden. I VISIT OF, ENGLISH TEAM. SUPPORTED BY WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, July 7. Regarding the proposed visit to New Zealand of an English cricket team next season, the Wellington Cricket Association decided to guarantee £BOO for two matches to be played in Wellington. The secretary was directed to inform the New Zealand Cricket Council that the Wellington Association strongly urged that the tour be persevered with, and that the Association would give the Council every assistance in its power to that end, if other associations failed to assist. OTAGO NOT FAVOURABLE. DUNEDIN, July 8. A meeting of the executive of the Otago Cricket Association was held this evening to consider a proposal from the New Zealand Cricket- Council that an English amateur team should he invited to Non Zealand next season. After discussion, the meeting came to the conclusion that it would be inadvisable to support the proposal in view of the financial responsibility it would involve. HINDUS IN TRADE. EUROPEANS OUSTED. WELLINGTON, July 7. Only two Europeans have* survived Hindu competition in the sale of fruit from barrows in Wellington streets. They have a special arrangement with the City Council. Hindus are required to purchase street stand rights bv auction quarterly. Forty dusky competitors attended the latest distribution, when remarkable prices were paid. Ridding for a stand at a busy tram stop in Courtenay Place jumped suddenly frotn;£7 to £25 and ended in a Hindu paying £ll 5s for the right to sell fruit there during the three worst winter months. One successful hawker was said formerly to have been a qualified Bombay chemist. All the Hindus paid cash rent in advance. They appeared to have ample money. Many of them still had n roll of notes when they left the room. In the aggregate they paid out £379 12s fid in a little over half an hour. Three months ago the aggregate was £323 12s (id Once upon a tine the letting of stands to Europeans realised £l4 or £ls a year. Under the present system the fees total £ISOO per annum.