NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 70, 16 December 1907, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PMSBS ASSOCIATION.)

f'. ■ DECREASED FLAX EXPORT. ." ■ V BIG "FALLING OFF/ • ■ ■* • Auckland, December 15. As showing the decrease in the export of flax'for the last few' months, the following figures;! supplied by Messrs. John Burns and Co.'j'Ltd., are of interest. During September, October, November, and .December, up to date;'B6ll bales, or 1420 tons have been g'radediat this port, as against 13,589 bales, or 2204 tons, during the same period of Inst year. For tlio whole Dominion, thtv decrease for tho .last three months is about 2300 tons compared with tho corresponding period of

. - AUCKLAND HARBOUR SCHEMES. ; f DOCK AND COLD STORAGE. : ',\ '''■■. 15. ■ ••■ Mr. W. J. Napier has given notice to movo as follows .at the next meeting of the Auckland,, Harbour Board:— . "(I)'.That tho Board in committee considor tho. advisability of using the powers vestod' in it by Section 11' of the Auckland' Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1899. to establish;a depot for tho storage of coal for thoOiso of;His;Majesty's niivy. • ''.t2),-,TKat tlib Board in committee coneider and report 'upon.-the desirability of lengthening tho .Calliope dock with tho view of boiiig'ftble .to afford dock 'accommodation for '.tho; larger typo of naval and mercantile vessels now being' built'. .'.. ' . : "(3). That, the of the Minister for Marino.be : drawn to the Board's communication to him iii reference!-to : the Board as- • surainc the control of the Manukau Harbour, and, that he bo asked for an early, decision on the .question.',' ..,;. . •

COAL DISCOVERY NEAR REEFTON. ■...." ' •'Reef ton, December-14. ' seam of. splendid coal has Wif struck, just outside Reofton.

[Reefton is almost entirely a gold-mining town, jb'ut splondid coal measures nro known to abound. There is a railway from Reef ton to the port of Greymouth.].;

; : 'NO-LICENSE , AND CRIME. ■ irWERCARfJILL'S GOOD RECORD. -.;;;.'■'• ■ invcrcarcM, December 14. Complimenting Invorcargiil through tho Press'-on its splondid record in regard to Supreme Court cases sinco no-license was carri(i<tj' tho secretary of a temperance organisation-., quotes from the addresses of Judges Cooper. Denniston,.Williams, and Chapman, each of .whom has congratulated the district on the remarkable absence of serious crime einco tho beginning of tho "now regime.

'S' THE VANCOUVER SERVICE. STATEMENT BY' SIR J. ffILLS. :; Dunedin, December 14. '. In- tho course of an interview, Sir James Mills said ho doubted 'whether the statement Vancouver subsidy wae to be discontinue!! owing t6 tho Federal tariff was correct. . Ho pointed out that quite recently the'i:Canadian Government' signed an.agreement with, the IJnion Steamship td maintain tho service for another two years. If it-.ivas.decided to discontinue the'subsidy, the probabilities wcro v that' this contract would be''allowed to 'run its' Course.

;-:•;CANTERBURY COLLEGE.- '■' ■"■■■'■' ■■'■: ' Christchurch; Decerabor 15. Mr. L. H. G. Greenwood, M.A. (son of Mr.'-G.•L^'Greenwood, Official Assignee), has bflon;appoint(!d classical lecturer at Cahterjocum tenens to' Prof. HdslarhjViyho, on account of■> ill-health, has been granted twelves off'iabsence. Mr.y&'re6hHf6ad, 'whopis 3 a' King's College,-Cambridge; : and" assistant "lecturer iriolassifcs Leeds, was; educated'• atf" ; Clirist's Collogd Grammar Bhd' : at Canterbury College ITo'was' electcdHb ah : oritrance scholai-sliip at King's College, Cambridge, and in 1901 was elected to scholarship. ... Ho took his ,M.A.;degree, in 1906, being app'oihted (in 1903)'lecfuror in Grebk 'at the;Yorkshiro'Col-logo,,.-.Leeds,-" In .1905 Mr^,,Greenwood- was appointbd asaisfant lecturer'in classics to the -University of, Leeds!, lie is of unusually high scholarship , attainments, and his treatise oil Aristotle, hasobeon published under tho auspices of tho Leeds University Board. Mr. Greenwood : has-cabledjaccopting the tempo-rary-appointmont, . and stakes up..his duties at Canterbury College at -'the, commeiicomont of the first'term "0f.1908. V , .

-MEAT PRESERVERS , AWARD. 'r : " \ /. \Chifistchurdh, Docbmber 15. An award has been filed in the Arbitration Court , in respect" to the dispute between tho Canterbury Meat Preservers' Union and the Christchurch Meat; Company and others. The bburs of work are not. to oxceed eight on any, day,';--'but..-arrangements may bo .mado for working 8J hours on five days, and 4}. hours on the ■ sixth. -The minimum wage rates aro to bo;as follow:—Head curer,. £3; general factory hands:.(includingvslaughtermen, cuf> tdrs-up,'-and' 9s; pdr. day; .scalders, cellarmen.. lardmakere,- arid, store hands, Bs. 6d.-per day; .all other/hands, -7s. 6d. ; per day. ..The .iollowing...weekly rates of paymout are fixed for. boys and youths,' fourteen, to. fifteen, yoars of,age,-.125.; fifteen to sixteen,, 155. ;. sixteen to seventeen, 18s.; seventeen to eighteen/, 255!;. nineteen to twonty, 305.; twenty to twenty-one, 353. Tho award comes into jorco, on January 1, .1908,'. and remains in forco till September 9, 1909.

~ HOSPITAL SATURDAY. punedin, December 15. The annual hospital Saturday collection was taken up yosterday in dolightful weather. Somo 370 ladies devoted thomsolvos to the work in tho city snd suburbs, and collecting extended fr0m,7.30 a.m. till 9 p.m. They met with.a splendid response on tho part of the -public, and about £755 was collected, orabout,£6s loss than last year, when £820 was subscribed, . ,' ~.-'

. 'CHARGE OFHORSE STEALING.' .-! .•.-'.;' - DahnevirJje, Decembor 14. At; the SM. ■ Court, this morning, Luther Murray, ' charged ~-with,,-hprse stealing, was committed for trial at. the next sitting of tho Supreme Court at Napier.