DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 8

DOM INION NEWS.

THE PORT OF WELLINGTON.

[Per Press Arsociation.l Wellington, February 2

Returns of shipping at the port of Wellington for the month of January constitute a record in the history of tbe Harbor Board. Besides the natural expansion of trade, the huge igures are added to by tbe fact of the arrival of many coal boats occasioned by the strike and the delay of ithers in sailing during the troublous period. The number of vessels inwards was 13.37, of a net tonnage ;f 325,569; outward vessels numbered 336, and the tonnage was 324,527; oversea boats, arrivals, departures and removals by pilots were 93 and bhe gross tonnage 520,725 compared with January last year, with 68 vessels and a tonnage of 409,138, an increase of 111,587 tons.

BLUEJACKETS V. POUCE.

Wellington, February 2

The arrest of a drunken bluejacket <h\ to .1 lively quarter-of-an-hour in VLuiners street to-night, reminiscent if the scenes during the strike season. The bluejacket fell into a doorway

i'ith a civilian, also very much "unler the influence," and as a constable vent to arrest the seaman, the later resisted. Another policeman •aine along, and more bluejackets nd a large number of people gatherd and gave the two constables a. hostile reception, roughly handling '.hem. The policemen struggled dong, however, towards the Manners street Station, whence more police, tearing the uproar, sallied forth and irregted three '. bluejackets and a •ivilian for obstructing the police in ;xecution of their duty.

THE WRECKED TYRONE

Dunedin, February 2

Big seas round the coast during the past, few days have played havoc with tile wrecked Tyrone. The forvard portion has bodily disappeared, .hough big waves were washing along the decks on Saturday. Two men itahding by decided not to vacate the wreck, but instead of the seas subsiding they increased. A survey nade about 2 a.m. showed that the forward part of the vessel had disappeared, and at daylight it was seen that the suspension bridge to the •ocks had been swept away, and that rwo lifeboats had been smashed' and i motor launch swamped. About 5 a.m. the two men made their way shrough the surf, and, by the aid of i line between the ship and the shore,, rained the rocks in safety. It is said that there will be little salvag"ng to do when the sea subsides.

BIBLE SN SCHOOLS

Wanganui, February 2

A meeting of delegates representor the electorates of Egmont, Oroua, Patea, Rangitikoi, Stratford, Taranaki, Waimarino and Wanganui, and with a signed membership of 10,704, passed a resolution to-night expressing the conviction that a sufficient number of people in Xew Zealand have evidenced their desire for a referendum on the Bible in State schools question to justify the Government introducing the necessary

legislation