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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 130, 28 November 1901, Page 5

The affect of last session's Factories Act on working hours was touched upon briefly before the Arbitration Court yesterday. Mr. Winter Hall (for the master ironfounders) stated that the employees of three, iron-working firms at Christchurch had told the employers that they did not want the three-quarters of an hour for dinner provided tor by the Act, and preferred the present half-hour. The President (Mr. Justice Cooper) remarked th^t the Act did not disturb existing awards. The Minister for Mines has approved the issue of a prospecting license to Mr. T. C. Udy over 200 acres of Crown land on the Waiohine River, five miles from Greytown, on -which coal has been found. The Laud Board decided to-day to issue a lease to Mr. Udy for a year at a rental of lg per acre, the royalty to be 6d per ton, and the total expenditure for the year not to be less than £100 . Mfr. Justice Edwards will hold a Chambers sitting to-morrow at 10.30 a.m., and will also settle the list for the ensuing icivil sittings. The sympathies of the Land Board »<*7ere aroused this morning by the nnforjtunate experiences of, a young man who ■'had selected a homestead in the Epuni *^ Hamlet »« the Hutt. The youth had speculated with 'a view to making a home and rearing a family. Unfortunate-" ly his patriarchal proposals had been de-molished-^the intended wife had cruelly broken off the matrimonial engagement, and the disconsolate home-maker had maAe- up his mind to leave the colony. The Board wished to console him, but the Land Act required that he must hold the land 1 for twelve months before he could transfer, and all that could be done was to assure the applicant that when, the 'twelve* months were up an application to transfer wpuli be favourably considered. The Growers' Assistants Union Has decided not to accept the recommendations of -? Kb' Concilia^dn Board in regard to the redent dispute. The case will go to the ArJ»itratiori Court at once. The Native Minister went to Otaki today to cofeter wiin the Maoris there relative to the Mao*i Council)* Act and the Maori Lands Administration Act. He wi}l .riiiirn. .ta-nighV and leave Again for the Wanganui and Taranaki districts to.mqrrbw mfirnibg. During the Hearing of the iron and brasSmoulderfe f depute before the Arbitration Court yesterday, it was mentioned tihatf an .unsuccessful conference haS been held between 7 tbe employers and the „u nion, ' Mr. D. Robertson, of the thdnit Ffflittdry, stated that this 4 cbr.fe*enfee- afforde'd an instance til one ef the injustices that employers suffered. AU, the -union representatives th'tifc Were present at^ the conference save one were from the pfoyemment railway workshops af? Petone'. These men should, riot Come to a conference to make for others conditions'. with ( which they would, nob have "jJJSftwjpiply ) themselves. The reason why *' Mr. M'L-a'fen. (not a mbulderj was before the Court representing thfe union was that "the man who signed all those documents " was working in' ij\e Government' railway workshops. The President Q&v ( Justice Gooper) Btated that the Court COTild only administer tihe Act. Mr.. Robettsdn— " You will help 1 lis directly, your Honour. It is not fair t6 StM*ss fish Of one afld flesh of tiie other. ivwdtire Government of the country ought td be for all the inhabitants, not some of tflM." ' Peter R. RtiSsell sued the Canadian Flat Hydraulic 1 SlutaiSg" Electrical Trans-jnl9Bi«m"Co-."((Tn""Ota^o mining concern) in the Magistrate's Court this morning for £28- 11s, a sum seh{ in order to obtain the transfer of shares, from one Gfttni to the p'lainiift 4 . Mr. $iiidmarsb, whY fippearetf for the plaintiff, said that the cheque had been sent with a request •that it be applied to Russell's account as soon as Grant had made the transfer. In thft-meantime * further call was made, aud^ pltr¥ of the money was used in paying Grant's debit. Plaintiff" considered the_ money had been wrongly used, and desired to revoke the original instructions to the company. His Worship considered, that the company had acted according to its instructions, though it might' have kept plaintiff more in touch with its proceedings. Giving evidence, the plaintiff' said, he had not received any "scrip' fi'6m the company. Shares were at & premium at the time he was seeing" the" transfer, and he could have made ' something out of some tof the shares, which he wanted in order to sell at the time. Now the shares were at a discount Mr. Atkinson (who appeared for" the company) did not reply. His. Worship said! he did not think there was a ease, and Mr. Hifidmarah said he .would take a nonsuit. He afterwards asked to have the case entered as a judgment for defendants, so that the question of appeal might be considered. Costs,- amounting to £5 Is, were given to the defendants. An application of a peculiar nature was considered by the Land Board today. A business resident of Marton ask* ed that an improved farm section' on which certain improvements have been made should be transferred to his son. The latter is 20 years of age, and is now in South Africa, and the applicant wished to invest the lad's savings and , provide him with a means pf livelihood o)i his return to the colony. The Board decided that as these sections were intended foi homes for working men the application could not be entertained. From statements made in a discussion at the Arbitration- Court yesterday, it appears that Southern manufacturers in the iron trade enjoy an advantage over timr- Wellington competitors in the .way of special terms as to freights. Mr. Winter Hall (for the employers) said that freights' were higher from Wellington to the South than from the South to Wellington. ' .. Gteat Britjain^ spends £123,860 a year on the British „ Museum. New Zealand spends more t|ian that on the purchase of Defiance Butter.—Advt. The great fire in Willis-street is the talk of the town, but it is not generally known that Mewn. J. and R. Morley, one of the leading manufacturers of the world, have 'had the whole of their samples .for . the Jtyw Zealand trade damaged, the damage ia 'principally ,by watar and qmoke, so that although useless to the firm, a large proportion are as good as new when washed. — Advt. Mr. C. Smith, the Cash Draper, Cubastreet, has purchased the whole of these samples at a ; very low price, the value amounting to several hundred pounds, and intends ' olearing them at a salvage sale to be held at the Cuba-street premises, whJch will commence on Saturday, 30th NoTe-mber; Thie wall be a greitt chance for buyers, as there are samples in nearly •very department, and some of them are hardly soiled. The objeot ii to rim them out quickly, and they' will be marked Very cheap to clear. — Advt. Messrs'. Harcdurt and Co. wjll sell by auction at their room* to-morrow at 2.30 p.m., two sfiventroomed villas, with frqntages of 35ft x 132 ft and a fire-roomed hoftae wkh latent conveniences, with frontago? of 93ff 7in x 264 ft. Both houses aro in Mein-etroat and close to the tram line A six-roomed; house will also be cffv'ietlr with ffc:.tagros of Wft x 84ft to Brown-street, off Adolaide-road — within 20jrds of the tirarn and cloise to the Basin Reserve On Monday, 2ud December, a salvage sak> of thp etoeic nt llvtft*. D*vis nnd Harris wdj! lx> hoH ct 2 p.m. when ' v 'nr^f' number of mujs'cal iw-trumoiita uxul v l> g 2JLiaitenL.nl -of iava'l s'l'A io Eubni'tte'l :\ ti.oui re ?ihl.