GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 130, 28 November 1901, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 27th November. The Board of Education intends inviting applications in Great Britain and the co^riies for the position of director of the Auckland Technical School at a salary of £450 per annum. This Day. The daily mail service between Auckland and tha South will start on Sunday next. Arrangements have been made by the Government and the Union Company for steamers to leave ~New Plymouth every day of the week except Sunday, and Onehunga every day except Saturday, connecting with express trains between Wellington and New Plymouth every day. DUNEDIN, 27th November. Mr. W. P. Watson, general manager of the New Zealand Coal and Oil Company, has received from the Government a bonus of £5000 for the first hundred thousand gallons of oil produced from shale oil. This is tHe result of operations at Orepuki. In the iron and brassmoulders' dispute, the Conciliation Board recommended a minimum wage of Is 3d per hour. This Day. The Conciliation Board yesterday filed its recommendation in the dredgemen's dispute. Eight hours are recognised as the shift time. The minimum wage in the Molyneux and the gorges above Roxburgh iB fixed at 10s per day ; below Roxburgh and in the rest of the industrial district Ba. Four holidays are 'to be observed, and Sunday and holiday work is to be paid for at double rates. CHRISTOHURCH, This Day. A test meeting to decide the local representatives for the New Zealand Championship Meeting resulted in the selection of the following: — 100 yds, A. 0. Keating; 220 yds, Keating; 440 yds, E. T. Harper; mile, W. F. Simpson. The Grocers' Union has decided to refer the dispute with the employers direct to the Arbitration Court, and the employers in the brickmaking dispute have elected to have the case between them and tho Brickmakers' Union similarly referred WANGANUI, This Day. The Native Land Court, which has been sitting here for some time, has dealt with large areas of native lands. Yesterday orders were made vesting 42,162 acres acquired by purchase from native owners in the Crown on freehold tenure. The Native Minister is expected here on Monday in connection with Maqri Council matters. He will hold meetings at Otaki and'Turakina en mite. Since the Manaroa was taken off the Wanganui- Wellington trade other, steamers have been unable to overtake the work. It is understood that there are "between 700 and 800 tons of cargo lying at Wellington for this port, consisting of transhipments from the Delphic, Tongariro, Heathdene, Knight of St. George, and the intercolonial boats. Complaints among local merchants in consequence of this are rifS.