DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TKIiKUItAI'II IfoiLSE STKALINO CHARGES. I’UKF.KOIIK. Nov. Clyde Powell l.mlwig. Walter Banaelotigh and .Percy MiOilvtay pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing iilteen horses from Okaka. 'lhey were eommitted for 1 1 in I. Ludwig was fin titer charged with Stealing nine cattle, pleaded iiol guilty and was eoinmiUeil for trial, bail being allowed. TROUBLE ON DLLS'KDIN WATERFRONT. DUNEDIN, Nov. 9. There was trouble oil the Dunedin ■waterfront ill connection with, the discharge of the oil cargo of the steamer City of Birmingham which arrived yesterday. I tiller the arbitration award men working oil ships below hatches receive font-pence an hour extra, hut the Court, refused to extend this to men working on deck. It is stated that the men appointed as wimhiuen yesterday failed to put in an appear--jnfee, no work therefore being done. The employers notified the men that no further labour would lie engaged til .Dunedin until the steamer was fully manned. The only ships being worked to-day are the Dorset and Trelyon I where the men were already under contract. When the Corinna arrived this morning there was no call lor labour made. The Karamea on entering port this morning was orilerod to berth al Port Chalmers where, if the dispute is unsettled, she will he discharged. Two hundred ami fifty union men are unemployed. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. GISBORNE, Nov. 9. Francis Raymond Hyde, arrested at night with a crowbar in his possession, pleaded, guilty to breaking and entering tin auction mart and the railway station, was cmnmittc.l far sentence. SOCCER FOOTBALL. 'WELLINGTON, Nov. 9. The Soccer Football Association has reteiveil a letter Irom A. Gibbs, its representative in England, stating that the question of the AUstl iilii!u tour was considered by the International Selection Committee of the Foot hall Association at Sheffield on October Ist., and a sub-committee of four was appointed (Messrs Clegg, McKenna. Lewis and Kingscott) to consider etui icjoit. This is considered as distinct evidence of the keen desire on the taut of the Foot La II Association to solid a team on tour. The men named are ils l»ur must influential members.