DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[llY TKLKUUAPII—I’KR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WEST COAST MIXING TROUBLE. MINERS AND OWNERS TO RE PROSECUTED. WELLINGTON. "He,. A. I)a S'.'creleiy of the. Coal Aline oliop-' Association has been advised bv Sir Francis 8011. Attorney-General, that lie regiots that the Government's pi'qai-a! ior settling the mine trouble nn lho We.-i ('oa'-t should have heen icjc; tod by the unions. Tile law v. ill he allowed to take us course, and it i- intended to pro-etute the unit ns for alleged unlawful Crenelles of fin- award and inciting to strike. It is intended, also, to prosecute tin* employers for to.- alleged look-out in older to give the i n oiii-t. 1 . an opportunity of supporting tii-dr allegations and this has taken Place. KUKGI.AKS SURPRISED. AUCKLAND. Dec. J. At Porter's avenue, handy to Mount Eden railway station, (here was an exciting half-hour on Thursday night, when two or three loeal re-id,'Mis beeame convnieed that burglars were operating in the oliiees ui the (dell .Alton Colliery Company, and made an effort to round them up. The suspicions of burglary proved aeeiirale. but the extempore arrangements for a round-up. while resulting in a raid immediately after the company's office sale Imd been .shattered by a gelignite explosion, and preventing the oliiees taking lire and saving the ea-li. tailed to cateli the burglar-. It was about n p.m. when a mu - (e-sioii nl ihisbos inside the office caught till- attention ol re-i'leuls in til*' neighbourhood. and a walih was kept till the sound of a 'implied explosion verified the suspicions of hurghny. Tho Mi nut Eden police station was notified, and a constable arrived on the scene. He and a resident made a eaulion- apluoacii to the office door, heiore which a railway truck

!:aii been pushed us a sereeu. They got into tliv building without eati-hiiig sight of the suspected hll.'gUls. and lotllld that the ollue sale had been burst epen by a gelignite explo-imi. Tho safe bad been shifted and laid on it- back on -ticks oil the liner of the office, wlieiv ii vi!-. found ill a shattered ("uditiou. while burning sacks lying about the office indicated ibid they h id las n laid mi the sale to muffle the ex- | lesion, ami had been blown about by iljc eoncii-sioii and set alight by the til inn; of the I'u-c. Nothing, Wii- im-'ing ol the cash ctii ll cuts c| the safe, about CIS. Ii wu- obvious that llif i entry (.1 ihe enii--iidilc and bis ally had scared off the l.itr.dars ! , foie ihcy laid laid an np)ii! t unity lu get back alter the exp!"Moil ami collect I lie loot. Had the buttling sacks net, been quickly thrown mu. ol ofl'u e the building would have been -et alire, thmigli. of ionise. • is pc. bat.,!,- Dim the Imrgh.rs would have done the fire-saving h.nl they m.i keen disturbed and forced to decamp V. Illi'-UI "UVlilg the. burst safe (i look