DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

> „ ' OOUKT-ILAETIAL OK LIEUTEN&Sf'i. ' OUMPTON, , '<■■ -** By Telegraph.—Press Au&cekHißfe Wangauui, Jan. 31/ The comt-martial to try LieuUnan, Crampton in connection with matters pertaining to tho Wanganui Detention Barracks will sit at Wanganui on January 29. It is understood LieutenantColonel Colquhoun will preside and that associated v.iih him will be Majors v Hurao, Mackaey, Henty, Asliwith, and Talbot, and Captain Smith. Captain P, & Baldwin will be Judge Advocate. Eleven charges havo been preferred against Lieutenant Crampton, alleging ill-treatment and permitting unneeeeary force to be used on soldiers. ELEVEN CHARGES OF ' ' ' MEKT. ; v Wellington, Last Nlgfct. In connection with the omirt-miartiai of Lieutenant Crampton, eleven charges have been laid against him, alleging that he ill-treated the following prisoners At Wanganui Barracks:—Privates Harry Wilson, W. B. Donovan. Joseph MaOonville, Thomas Moyimhan, Alister Beaton, Wilfred Badger, lYederiok Palasen, and George Carian. _ ( PKOSPECTs"oF EA,FViST.'

Clirlslehureh Lut Night. Mr. A. Macplierson, of the Agricultural Department, was asked to-day about the prospect* of wheat .in Cutterbtiry, in view of the disease among the crops. He replied that, Mparatly. the disease was spreading, and it would be difficult at the present time to say Ivhat ' the yield would he when cropped, On the whole, it was looking "very promising, and if {he present trouble had sot come there would have been a good har* vest i Jl' RETURNED SOLDIERS' RECEPTION TO GENERAL PAD. Wellington, Last Ki|fcfc Ths* Wellington Returned Soldiers' Club lwld a reception to General Pan today. The General was loudly cheered. He was presented with a "New Zealand returned soldiers' badge in gold, inscribed "PftU—lßlU," and wa« aslced to Meept a life njemberrhip in the association. General Pau, in accepting, said the New Zealand soldiers' part in the war would never be forgotten. OVERSEAS' VESSELS WANTED InvercargiU, Last Nighi. To-day the Bluil Harbor Board decided to ask the Jnvjrcargjjl Importers' Assoi ciation to refuse to place orders oversea unless the goods were landed ex direct boat at the Bluff. The Inruroargill Chamber of Commerce has requested the Union Company to replace the Bluff -i a port of call. THE JEWEULERS'"DISPUTEI;

Wellington, last Night. The jewellers' dispute was opened to day, but was not concluded. The employers suggested a renewal of the existing award for three years, with an alteration of hours. They desired that the hours should he 48 instead of 44, as desired by the union. The union it asking fcr a weekly wage of £4 as against £3 4s now ruling, and increases are alio demanded in the czisea of female workers and apprentices. ship-owners' federation; MEETING. ' i Wellington, Lest Night'. ' The annual meeting of the New Zealand Ship-owners' Federation was held to-day. t The retiring members of the exeeuUw committee, Messrs Burnetii, Feraie, Fnller, and Captain STcArthur, were rteleeted, and Mr. S- S. Heath was added to the committee. FAILING TO DELIVER 1BTTEB& Invcrcargill, Last Night. Michael Stanley Dawson, 16 yean «f age, was committed for sentema for baring failed to deliver postal paatagta while acting as a postal official at Ed«dale, 300 letters heing found in a in an old wfell at his lodging. - *-•