GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 7 June 1915, Page 3

GENERAL.

The Daily Citizen, the working man’s newspaper, London, has ceased publication. Experimental shipments ol South African frozen meat were readily disposed of in London during the past . fortnight at satisfactory prices. Some time ago the Palmerston i North Patriotic Society decided to erect permanent offices. On Saturday afternoon , volunteer workers . started, and by five o’clock a substantial three-roomed building was erected . in the Square. * Walsh Bros.’ seaplane, built :n ' Auckland, made several very successful flights on Saturday, travelling al together about GO miles. The longest iiiglit was about 21 miles. On three occasions Mr Walsh carried passengers, the one who accompanied him on one of the longest flights being a New Zealand .Herald reporter. Ihe machine in lull flight travels at a 1 mile a;,minute. Tlie Daily News reports: The police have been informed that Mnrdo Stewqrt, a Mokau launch proprietor, left on Wednesday to go up the Mokau river. On Thursday the launch was found with a light burning in the engine-room, but the engine had run clown. What has Happened to Stewart is a mystery, anti no trace of him has hern reported. An enterprise under the title of the “Southern isles Exploration Company” has been formed at invorengill. The capital of the company is b £IO,OOO, divided into 10,000 shares of r £1 each, and the objects are: “To ? acquire and take over as a going con . cern the business now carried on by Mr Joseph Match, of Invercargill, oil merchant, at the Macquarrie islands and Hobart, in Tasmania, of procuring and refining and dealing in oil from whales, sea elephants, and other animals of the South Pacific Ocean.” At the Auckland Supreme Court (reports the Press Association), Justice Cooper gave judgment in the application by Soren Marius Mikkelson to have an order of the Court varied so that he might have access to his little girl, eleven years old, who was the central figure in a sensational abduction incident a couple of years ago. His Honor had interviewed the girl in company with Dr. Lindsay, and la tier said the girl was evidently in perpetual fear of hor father. His Honor’s judgment was that it would ho highly detrimental to the physical) and mental health of the girl if access! by the father was permitted even under the most stringent precautions. He declined to vary the older and dismissed the application with costs. The submarine blockade against our. shipping is a failure. .Of coure, we have lost a certain number of ships, i hut then the Germans have lost a I good many submarines. 'Lite Admiral-, ty won’t say how many, or how they! were sunk. The idea is, that if the, German submarines silently disappear and never return again it, has the greatest effect on the “morale” of the ’ German Navy. About a month ago a German submarine was discovered under the Forth bridge. It was trawled for with wire-netting used for sheep runs, and it was discovered and hauled up, crew and all, intact. Also at Exmouth a month ago a submarine was fired at off Start Point by a patrol ship. They must have felt certain she was done for, as they were trawling or sending down devices for her,' hut the authorities would say nothing. 1