DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

NO BIDS FOR DAIRY LAND.

[Per Press Association.] Brrr.. . ■ . Wellington, April 16. Evidently the demand for land in Southern Hawke's Buy has been appeased. To-day 600 acres in the Tejliu estate, near Norse wood, consisting if six sections, ranging from 41 to 135 acres, were offered for sale by public auction, and failed to elicit a iid, though the land, is first-class lairying country.

SPURIOUS COINS.

Wellington, April 16. Doubtful half-crown pieces are re>orted to have been noticed ia Wellington. The coins are of silver, bin ipparently have been moulded instead )f stamped. The difference is not readly detected, except by an expert.

THE CORIN7HIC IMMIGRANTS

Wellington, April 16. Out of 178 steerage passengers omiug to New Zealand by the Corinhic, duo at Wellington from London lext Tuesday, 112 have been assisted >y the Government. They include 21 lomestics, 19 farmers and 65 people vho will rejoin relatives already settled ii the Dominion.

GAMBLERS FINED

Christchurch, ApVil 16. Five men \\ev(? charged at the Court o-day as the result of the gambling aid. Charles Glisson pleaded guilty o being found in a gaming-house, and ■•as,fined £3. The others, A. J. Moron, J. Muhlieson, H. Grainger, and ■\ Duval were remanded till .Tuesday.

EPIDEMIC IN HOSPITAL.

/ Wellington, April 16. Five nurses at the Wellington Hos•ital recently contracted a malady ery like typhoid fever. On further xamination, the illness proved to be .'ara typhoid, similar to typhoid, only auch milder. It is not followed by ny complications. Practically all the tafcients are now convalescent. All he cases have been traced to one >atient, and the epidemic has been >articuarly infectious. The Health )epartment made an examination o< ho drains at the Children's Hospital, ;ad found them satisfactory.

V LABOR CONFERENCE

Wellington, April 16. The Arbitration Unions Conference o-day adopted the following resolution:—"That for the purpose of so!i:iiYing the forces; .of Labor, and in order nore successfully to protect the mutlld interests of organised Labor, this onfcrence tfrges upon the United federation of-Labor the necessity ot •ailing a conference of all unions for July 7, with the object of deciding lpon a common line of action politicly, and to discuss and act if so lecided in the direction as soon as )ossible thereafter of becoming affiliated, with the Australian Labor Fecjeritiqn.

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

April 16; New regulations by'the Public'Service CommisaAQnflrs are gazetted tolight, prescribing a special depart•nental examination for inspectors of factories, etc., belonging to the Labor Department who are now placed in the general division and desire promotion .o a higher grade of inspectors, who ire graded in the clerical division. The first examination under this regu'ation will be held next week. There ire two vacancies to be filled, viz., positions of offioer-in-charge of the Department in. Christclmrch, and in-spectors-in-charge of the inspectors in ,he Wellington district. Some dozen ; nspectors will sit for the examination. Besides the subject of arithnetic, tlio examination will bear practically on the higher work of officers >f the Department.