DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGE OF THEFT. By Telegraph.—Press Assoeiatien. Wellington, April 9. A young married man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at a Vivian street' music shop, when £l2O worth of musical instruments were stolen. Most of the instruments have been recovered by the police. A negro, James H. Pollard, charged in the court this morning with brea-king and entering a music store and stealing musical instruments valued at £125, was remanded till Wednesday nextTHE MOULD INQUIRY. Dunedin, April 0. The military inquiry into the circumstances of the disappearance of Private George Mould was concluded to-da.v. Evidence was read of Captain Cameron, of the Maori, who said he had no direct knowledge of Mould's disappearance. No report of it was made to him during the trip. The evidence of Mr Munn, the Maori's purser, was also read. He also said no report was made to him on the nights of the 3itl and 4th February that Mould hud jumped overboardThe only new -witness was John Campbell McGill, a returned soldier. He said, iip and Mould were in the same cabin. Witness, after turnhif* in, did .rot see Mould again. He reported the disappearance in the morning. The court, after retirement, found that Mould disappeared during the Voyage of the Maori: that at the time he was physically and morally capable of looking after himself, and that no officer, non-com, or soldier was directly or indirectly guilty of neglect of duty. In the evidence of the captain and purser of the Maori the disappearance of Burns on the previous trip was referred to as having been reported, and each of these witnesses spoke of him as a bov named J. Burns. The previous initial mentioned at the enquiry -was B. Burns. THE "KNOWLES WILL CASE. ' Wellington, April 9. The Chief Justice gave judgment today in the case brought by Mrs MacFarlane in connection with the wills of her late father and mother, Mr and Mrs E. W. Knowles, of Najiier. In the first action Sir Robert Stout gave judgment for the trustees, J. Vigor Brown and Francis Logan, with coßts to 'be paid by plaintiff, as plaintiff seemed to have no confidence in the trastees, (but there was no ground for such belief. In the case in which Mrs Macfarlane asked that the trusts under her mother's will be administered by the court, the Judge said theTe was no evidence that the trustee, J. Vigor Brown, acted in anv wily improperly. He would grant her a decree, but she would have to pay all the costs of the litigation. THE RAILWAY SCHEDULE. , Wellington, Last Night. The Marton branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants passed a resolution refusing to accept the schedule offered by the Department, and urging that a special conference of delegates be called to deal with the matter. INCREASING QUARANTINE ACCOMMODATION. Wellington, Last Night. The Minister of Public Health states that there are to be large extensions at the Motuihi and Somes Island quarantine stations, and it is probable that 250 additional beds will be provided at both places in the immediate future. A CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Wellington, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court, Harry Blanford and Kate Winstanley pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. The fdmale accused admitted she had married Norman Charles Winstanley, a member of the 32nd Reinforcements, on .the day before he sailed. Both the accused were , committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. PAYMENT OF BLOCK DOCTORS. Wellington, Last Night. Inquiries made by a reporter to-day elicited the fact that none of the New Zealand doctors who worked on the block system during the epidemic have been paid by the Department yet. The position is that Wellington doctors decided to charge the Government £lO 10s per day for the period of the block system. The matter was hung up a long time, and then an offer came from the Minister to pay £7 7s a day. The local branch of the Medical Association considered and agreed to accept the offer, provided the Government paid for the petrol used, and that any medical men put to the expense of hiring cars should be compensated. It is stated that doctors here have agreed to work on the block system if • there is a recurrence of the epidemic, and they also agreed to standardise the medicines\ required by the sufferers in order to simplify the treatment. REFRIGERATED SPACE PROBLEM. | Christchurch, Last Night. At a meeting of farmers to-day, convened to consider the refrigerated shipping space shortage, the following motion was carried: This meeting of Canterbury farmers desires to bring before the Government the urgent need of prompt action to relieve the present space problem. Canterbury is suffering from serious drought, and unless fat lambs are killed in the next three weeks the loss to Canterbury will be serious. We are advised that butter and cheesy are given preference, but we consider the Government should put meat first, in spite of the Home controller. Wo suggest that the Corinthic, which is coming to Lyttelton on April 22, should load meat entirely from Lyttelton. This would materially relieve the position.