Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 162, 3 November 1896, Page 3

Interprovincial News.

At a meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labor C mn.-ii. Mr-I. Fawcus presiding. a<l i~ >:~-ii>11 took place on the wages paid to City Council workmen, employ.' - in local sawmills. and others. It was stated the C ry Council laborers were paid (is a day and yard-men in the mills ">s. out of which many of them had to support a family. The general opinion of the Council was that the wages of the-e men ought to be increased in consequence of the rise of rents and the increase of pay in other callings. K.I ward John Forrester Clarke, aged J-~<, iii- d suddenly at Whitianga of heart disease. He is said to bnve had wealthy relatives residing in Henley. England. A post mortem on the body of 11. S. Myers, who died suddenly, was made by Dr. MacKell.tr at the Auckland morgue yesterday morning. and as a iv-uit of ttie examination a \vrdict of dent!) from fatty degeneration of the hi art was returiud. A man about l"» years of age. whose name is unknown, dropped dead in Cii-to.u—*r>«t Fast. Auckland. voterday morninc- A letter found on him was addri --1 d to Vv iliium Pender. A painful n-ation was caused in (iisboni" \e-t* niay afternoon by the sudden death of Or John Fraser innes. which occurred at his residence at I)r Cob' 1 was |. u- -; 1, _r l>r Inne-'s h' a few minute s befor» t'. time, and was called in by the latter, who stated he needed attention. Or Innes was sei/ed with convulsions. and died in a -hor; time.