ARBITRATION COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 50, 1 March 1905, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

♦■ — — -. [l)Y TKr.ECHAPJt — rUE§S ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, '27th Fobruury. 'iho Arbitration Court opened ili is morning, and begun the hearing of the engineers' dispute, in which 65 employers ,iro cited. Tim engineers chum £3 per week mid 47 houiM. The ciiso wits not tin— Miod when Iho Court rose. An sixteen disputes have been referred to the Court for consideration, in addition to the coal miners' dispute, to be heard at Whungarei, the sittings are likely to extend well into April. Several witnesses examined to-day unanimously agiwd that, the cost of living had so increased of late- years that a wage of 10« per day twenty or thirty years ago wua then worth much more to the worker than the same sum at present.

Cabinet bna re-appoiuted Mr. F. de C. Miilot and Sir Jiuiich Prendergnat directorH of tho Bank of New Zealand. Their present terms of office expire on tho 31«t instant. Sir Joseph Ward lias quito lecovcred from his recent attack, of illnctfH, nnd presided at a meeting of tho Cabinet todny. He will remain in AVollington for some days. , A number of bylaw cave/i camo before MeH»r». W. Gill and H. Fielder, Justiuu.s, at tho Magistrate's Court this moining. Win. Bennolt and Charles Cuthie uero lined 5s each for having ridden bicycles in Kellmrnc-road at night without lights. W. L. Thonip«on w;is charged with having left building material ut tbo corner of KiillancuolrcL'l and Stout-«tr«et without n light ul night. Dufetulant was lined ?.s 6d. For diiviug v vehicle alonu RiddifordKtreeL at nighl without a light Kdwiu Burgeiis wus lined 6s with 7» vohlh. Dante (J.iinanosi, for having diiven round tho corner of C'viba-strect and jMiHini-rM-.%ti(Ht al other than v talking pice, wjih lined 2n \iith 7» costs. The followinj; weie fined for having allowed horses and cattlo to wander at Northland nnd K.-irori : — John Jiih. Curtis, 6s nnd costs 7a ; Win. Abornethy, \Vm. Carey, John U WehWy, John E. Ragle, and Roderick M'Leotl, 2a 6d with 7r costs each j Hemy SSntll, 2» 6d without COfltH. At a meeting of the Petone Technical School Hoard ln.it evening, the Ilev. A. Thomson presiding, it wax deckled to start all classes on Monday next except the continuation daws, for which a teacher is to be advertised. Mr. Lyiwkey lmviiiK been uniible to mxede "to tlui Boards request to continue to conduct this wection. Nomination.ii of repre*entatiyes were made by seveial of the contributing boclies an under :— Petone Hor/•ougli Council, Councillors Castle ■uul Nicholson ; (tear Meat Company, Mcwn. Lodder and Duncan ; Woollen Company, Mr. Ramsden. Mr. H. E. Loighton innerli a now lis>t of town properties for valo, and iinnounroß that, he lias nindo arrangements to Ikivo houses built to suit good tenants at Kilfcirnie.