TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

| MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD. A DISPUTE AS TO WAGES. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night. A dispute between the Merchant Service Guild and' the members of the Shipowners' Federation having vessels registered here came before the Conciliation "Council to-day. The Guild asks that masters and officers be paid at the following rates for vessels: — 1000 gross tonnage and under, master £2S per month, chief officer £lB, second officer £l4, third officer £l2, every master and officer to be entitled to leave of absence on full sea pay, the master for a continuous period of twenty-eight days, and the officers for fourteen days. The conditions also provide for overtime. It was urged on behalf of the Federation that the latter body was unable to agree to one award covering officers and masters.

Air Pryor stated that owners could not discuss the claims if those of masters and men were considered! conjointly, Oa the ©fcliei hand Mr Watson (for the Guild) sadd tfef-y could not deal with the officers separately. He added that the Union Company had agreed to meet the Guild as far as possible in its claims. No settlement was arrived at, and both parties agreed to refer the dispute to the Court.

THE 'FRISCO STEAMER.

ARRIVES AT WELLINGTON

[By Telegraph—Press Association.']

WELLINGTON, Last Night

The R.M.S. Aorangi arrived from San Francisco shortly after 6 a.m., this morning. She had a line weather passage, and brought a fair number of passengers, including W. W. Naughton, the American sporting writer and boxing authority, and Picto, the American boxer, both of whom are bound for Sydney. Included in the cargo are nearly 10,000 bags of barley and a large quantity of hardwood and. island fruit.

Three stowaways were handed over to the Wellington police. On the voyage to 'Frisco the Rev. R. C. Hacke Hacke, one of several Mormon missionaries returning to Salt Lake City, died from natural causes.

San Francisco papers, referring to the two breakdowns to the steamers machinery on the voyage from New Zealand, say that the passengers give Captain Evans and Chief Engineer Ward great credit for the manner in which they handled the situation. The vessel rolled helplessly in the tropical seas, but fortunately the weather was line and the passengers were not alarmed.

A WOMAN'S GRATITUDE. [By Telegraph—Press Association.J NAPIER, Last Night. The gratitude of an inmate of the Napier Hospital was illustrated at yesterday's meeting of the Hospital Board. The chairman said that a lady named Mrs Costa/in, a patient at the Hospital, wished to give £3OO ' towards the funds, on condition that she received interest on that sum, to be paid quarterly. He stated that he did not see how the Board could accept the offer, as in the event of the patient ever leaving the Hospital she f would be destitute. The matter was left in the hands of the chairman, and the secretary was instructed to meanwhile send a letter of thanks to the patient.