NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

Alt km idem i ecurreil in the railway goods yard, opposite the Union Steam Ship Company’.- 1 offices. but fortunately ii was not attended by any very serious dislocation of the yaid working Pays the '‘Otago Daily Times”). An engine was coming from tlie enginesheds to the railway station, when by some means or other it took the wrong points and ran on to a '‘dead end,’ over the end of the rails, and became embedded in the liallast. The engine stopped just short of one of the tall posts cn which the signals at this local.ly rare placed. Several attempts were made by other engines to pull tlm derailed engine back on to the line, but without immediate success. Eventually :.t 7.3*) p.m.. three large locomotives weic successful in the attempt to replace the engine on the line. \n unusual method of quelling a jjtdfnst riot was described by Lieutenant AliHs in the course of his address at the Otago Officers' Club (says the Otaon '‘])ailv Times”). A party of loyalists at one end of a street wore ‘•exchanging compliments” with a partv of Sinn Feiners at the other, and in the middle of the road was a patrol, the duty of which was to prevent a clash between the rival parties. The officer in charge of tile patrol approached the Loyalist party, and offered to give ii a Sinn Fein dag which he possessed if the members would go qmetly hoivc This was eventually agreed upon, and the party, after burning the (lag ill view of the n>ponent«. dis-