Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 157, 28 October 1896, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

l'nlniorston is rapidly fillingup in anticipation of the carnival, and an enormous attendance .is expected to-morrow. The hotel accommodation is taxed to the utmost by the arrival of visitors from all parts. Professor Gordon Saunders. M.D., and Registrar of Trinity College, London, is in Auckland for the purpose of holding the usual examination of the local candidates in practical music and piano and violin playing for certificates awarded by the eoliege. There are 88 candidates in the primary division, 12 in the junior, and 17 in the senior. A petition in favor of the release of Louis Clieniis and two women in prison for infanticide which lias been in circulation in Christchurch for some weeks now bears 67554 signatures. The secretary of the Auckland exhibition being inundated with applications for space for exhibits, the promoters find it necessary to prepare for more extensive building operations than was anticipated. The Court of Appeal was occupied yesterday with a motion by the "Wellington Law [Society to strike the name of a solicitor practising near Wellington off the rolls. The application is made on the complaints of several different clients, alleging that the solicitor obtained advances from them of moneys for Ihe payment of disbursements to be made in connection with proceedings to be taken for them by the solicitor, and thai he applied the money to his own purposes, failing altogether to take the proceedings which he had undertaken to bring. The Court reserved its decision. Mr M. W. liiehmond appeared for the Law Society and Mr Meuteath for the solicitor. This was the liut of the cases, and the Court adjourned until 11 o'clock oil Thursday morning for judgments. The thirty-first Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Show opened yesterday. The weather was variable and stormy, and does not promise well for to-day. The sheep were all judged yesterday. The sheep as a whole were excellent, the best and most numerous seen in the pens for some years. Owing to the employment of a couple of non-union boilermakers from Dunedin by Messrs Cable and Co. of the Lion foundry, Wellington, the union boilermakers. five in number, have gone out on strike. So question of wages is involved, only the principle of unionism. Mr Cable explained that he had declined to interfere in the matter, and the men had refused to join the union, as the employment was only of a temporary character. Advice has been received by business people of a further rise of 10s per ton in the price of Canterbury Hour, the lalest quotation, being £lO per ton, f.o.b. in southern ports.