BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14040, 22 April 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Work will probably be resumed in the i.Vestpoi-t Company's mine at Millerton in a few weeks. Napier master bakers intend tc raise the price of bread. They propose giving the coupon system a trial." Ernest Hancock and Wm. Hutchison committed for trial at Christchurch on charges of i.esault ;md robbery. The Napier trawling dispute is still un settled, some of the employers not vet 1-aving accepted the si:g?estcd terms. Auckland Education ""Board intend -taking into consideration the matter of holding classes during the winter for woolpacking and sorting. Proclamation of' Rarotongan inhabitants of appointment of British Resident to the protectorate of the Cook Islands made by Xcw Zealand on April 22, 1888. Captain H. Se.'.tun. who is walking round the world, navmg taken up the 'Daily Mail's' challenge to walk 45.000 miles iii six years, has p.rnved at Wellington. The recommendations of the Conciliation Commissioner (.Mr Triggs) have been accepted by ihe representatives of the Christchurch Tramway Board and the Txamwav hmployees' Uir.on. The Auckland Railwav League have decided to hold a conference on }lav 26 of the various Eaat Coast, Railwav Leagues and the. Rotorua, League to discuss the route of the East Coast Railway. North Canterbury Executive of the Farmers' Union and the Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association have expressed approval of New Zealand's o-ift of a Dreadnought to the Mother Country. The secretary of the New Plymouth Harbor Board is advised by the chairman and treasurer, who are in London, that the Board's loan of £275,000 has been underwritten at 101 for thirty years at 4i per cent. ' The Court of Appeal are hearing the appeal of the Commissioner of Stamps against Mr Justice Williams's decision in regard to ihe Lite Samuel Wilson's bequest to the Salvation Army. The point at issue is the matter of death duty