DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 January 1914, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

LAND FOR THE PEOPLE. [Feb Press -Association.] ; Dannevirke, January 20 i Two hundred and lour applications have been received for fourteen sections in the Tahoraiti and Taniaki Mocks to be ballotted for to-morrow. The area aggregates lo 8» acres, and the sections range from 69 to 222 acres oi dairying and pastoral land. MORE IMMIGRANTS'. Auckland, January 20. ' The Ayrshire has arrived from Liverpool, having left that port on 18th ult. The immigrants include 72 farmers and a huge number of domestics. INQUEST ADJOURNED. Heefton, January 20. The inquest on Downie was resumed. Evan,-,, general manager, declined to answer a question whether Downie was getting a higher salary than the mine manager, stating thai fifteen men in the mine got highei wages than the mine manager's. He demanded an adjournment to obtain legal assistance for Saunders. Almost all the lawyers were away, owing to the legal vacation, aud the case was adjourned till the 29th ins;. ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY FINED. Tiniaru, January 20. The Ashburton Acclimatisation Society was to-day lined £1 on each of two charges for selling fishing licenses within the South Canterbury Acclimatisation district.

MIRAMAR WATERSIDERS. Wellington, January '2O. There was great excitement in Miramar this afternoon and evening, owing to trouble with the men engaged in discharging coal from the steam Harflete at Miramar wharf. !: consequence of the men objecting to the food supplied by the boarding-house-keeper where they usually took their meals, the landlady refused t. continue supplying them, and the hut thereupon declared they would havt to have two hours off for lunch. Tho\ accordingly knocked off at 11..'50, am did not go back till 1.30. The agent: of the Harflete thereupon paid til. men oil' at .1 p.m. The result of ; consultation was that the men lie dared that if any men came to tak their places they would make thing: warm for the newcomers. The agentobtained a fresh batch of men, ti.. first to arrive being met by some m the discharged men, who dared then to start, threats of all kinds ol in juries being made. The police wen sent for, and nine men started work, 'but,-'as soon as they commenced, the bullrope on the winch snapped, and two buckets of coal fell on to two men mi lerneath. They weie knocked on to the wharf, but were uninjured. A:) examination of the rope showed it had been cut almost in two with :• knife. Another bullrope that was lying on deck was found similarly cm in two places. To protect new hands coming from work, a sergeant aiu. eight constables were sent from the city, and although there were rumors of disturbers lying in ambush for tic; men ' the latter reached home saloiy under escort.

RAID OM CAM2NG HOUSE. Wellington, January 20. The police raided two bouses in I'ory Streel to-night and arrested the occupiers, Chung Ivum and Ah Loo. on charges of keeping gaming-house:, Throe Europeans, two oPthem youth,-. . were also arrested on charges of be iug found on Lite premises. While the police were in Ah house two Chinamen entered and distributd tickets, which, it is alleged, were fo; the purpose of announcing the result of the eight o'clock drawing at the (••Mitral pak-a-poo hank. Both win arrested, and one had 55 ' and tks other ;t* tickets. They are charge'.! with assisting in the management o: the lottery. ALLECED CHILD MURDEK. "Wellington, January '2O. The inquest concerning the deatli o! Thelina May Davis, a child whose body was found under a house at llona Hay last October, was concluded today. .Margaret Ellen Seymour, a single woman, the mother of the child, is at present awaiting trial on a charge of murder. Dr. MacLaurin, the Dominion analyst, stated that die had made an exhaustive examination ol the child's body, and found no poison, except a trace of zinc, which was harmless in quantity, and, probably, was absorbed from tbe paint on the bptb in which the remains were forwarded to him. The coroner found that Thel:ni\ May Davis died about September 'io, but the evidence was insufficient to show the cause of death.