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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 85, 12 April 1901, Page 5

It i has been decided that, the' enquiry by the Conciliation Board into the dispute filed by tho Napier Painters' and Decorators' Uniou shall bo held in Wellington towards the end of the present month. The union asks that the number of hours shall bo fixed at 45 per week ; that every first-class journeyman shall bo paid not less than Is 4<J per hour ; that no second-class journeyman shall receive less than Is 2d per hour ; that preference shall be given to unionists ; and that ouly one probationer shall be employed to every three journeymen, Mr. Justice Cooper will return tfrom Auckland on Wednesday next. Tlio Education Board's Truant Inspector and Clerk of Works are at present visiting tho Wairarapa on business connected with their departments. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court will bo held before the Chief Justice on Monday next. The only business will be the hearing of applications for the discharge of the following bankrupts: — James H. 'Palmer, A. J. Giddings, Walter Jounnax, and G. W. Smart. The general manager of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company notifies that the Sunday train to Pac _ '_- p*-"^ [ * will not run again this season. Certificates of competency as duly authorised surveyors have been granted to the following : — Wilfred M. Atkinson, Arthur N. Harrop, Walter C. M'AHster, O. Muir, Percy B. Macdonald, "and Andrew M. Roberta. Miss Aldrich, at present assistant at the Upper Hutt School, will take charge at Kereru on the lßt May. Her place at Upper Hutt will be flUed by Miss M. Cooper at present at the Petone School. Mrs. Sexton (lady superintendent) presided over a meeting of the committee of the St. John Ambulance ( Nursing Guild held yesterday afternoon, and there wero also, present Mesdames L. H. B. Wilson and W. B. Fisher, and /Misses Archibald, Jones, and Ronayne (hon. secretary). Correspondence was read from Mr. W. J. C. Brasicr, of St. John's Gate, relative to 'various details connected with the working of the Guild. Votes of thanks were passed to Messrs.) A. Low (New Zealand Drug Company) and l\ Hutson for presents for the use of the sick poor, to Messrs. A. D. Riley and T. Grant, and to St. John's Church for the line of their room. It was decided that a party of members of tho Guild should take part in the demonstration connected with the annual meeting of the St. John Ambulance Association. The Wanganui Herald alleges that ' there is a general complaint that sheep stealing is on the increase on the coast. A settler near Wanganui not long since placed a number of ewes in a paddock for a few days, and on counting them i non afterwards was chagrined to find that nearly one hundred of them had disappeared. Every effort to trace them has, so far, proved abortive, and their owner has come to the natural conclusion that the missing sheep have been stolen and disposed of. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Henry Jef-h-ies, alias Frank Jeffery, pleaded Guilty to a charge of having forged and uttered - on 30th March, at Wellington, a cheque for £4 10s, purporting to be sighed by K. Seager, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Jeffries ;>lso received three months' imprisonment ior being without visible lawful means Ngahina Matu, charged with^ breaking and entering the dwelling of John Thomas, at Waikanae, and stealing £70 !5s in money, aud ono gun valued at .016, the property of Mere Kohurangi, waa further remanded till Monday ; bail, At £100 and two sureties of £50 each. Mary Murphy was bound over, in, two • ureties of £50 each, to keep the peace .'or twelve months, for having used inuUing language in a public place, in default, imprisonment, till sureties are ''<:und. William Malley, who was ar- • ' ted by Detective Cox, was sentenced i) one month's imprisonment for the theft, on 3rd April, at Wellington, of a j.;old watch and metal chain, valued at £8, tho property of Bernard Erickson, iind to ' seven days' imprisonment for theft of a Gladstone bag containing 'wearing apparel, value' £5 10s, the property of Emily Hamilton. An order was made for return of the property to the owners. Leonard M'Kerinn. was sentenced to' one month's imprisonment for an. assault on John Campbell. In reference to ' tho agitation for the retention of the Mapourika in the Greymouth service, a West Coast exchange puya: — We understand the Union Com\yi\y is most anxious to study the con- % nience and comfort of the travelling public, and there is every probability Jut tho Mapourika — after she has been dispensed with in relieving the Takapuna for a few weeks — will be placed permanently in the trade for which she was i riginally intend.d, and for which the ijoat is admirably adapted. The favourite old Haupiri is to resume her running hi a day or two. During the passenger iniffic season the company would do well in run threo boats a week between Wellington and Greymouth via way ports. in the winter months, when traffic is ■j!ack, the Mapourika and Wainui would meet requirements provided 1 the Haupiri were made, say, to run direct to Greymouth from Wellington, returning via Westport or as a third boat every week. The Commercial Trust and Loan Co. reives notice that an interim dividend at iho rate of five per cent, per annum will be payable from the 15th inst. An association is being formed in this port by the officers of coastal and intercolonial vessels, having for its object the mutual benefit of owners and officers alike. This is claimed to be the first association of the kind. A company has been formed at Patea to erect works for the storage mid freezing of butter. Boats fitted with refrigerating machinery are to be built for the purpose of bringing the produce to Wellington for transhipment. It is expected that the trade of the port will ho substantially developed by the venture. The residents of Wainui- o-mata are renewing the agitation to get the railway to the Wairarapa to run through their distriot. They maintain that either of two routes through the Wainui-o-mata would be muoh preferable to the present route over the Rimutaka, and it is probable that the Government will have a flying survey made of both. It is understood that Mr. Hohnes, District Engineer for the Public Works Department, has beep, directed to go over the proposed route along the sea coast past Lowry Bay and iJay's Bay. Mr. Field, M.H.R., leaves to-morrow for Wainui for the purpose of making himself acquainted with the two routes suggested by the local residents. Having bought a lot of handkerchiefs direct from the, manufacturer in Ireland, Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., are going to give their customers the benefit of the purchase.. Ladies' all-linen hemstitched handkerchiefs are now 3s lid, 4s lid, 63 6d, 6s 6d, 8s 6d, and 10s 6d. In the ordinary way these would be half as nvjch again. One special line of all linen hemstitched initial handkerchiefs at 4s lid the half dozen, instead of 7s 6d the half dozen, ia particularly attractive.— Advt.