TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11120, 12 January 1899, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[PEII UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AucFLANn, Wednesday. The Moana tairi has crushed 200 tons for bullion valued at .£3OO, a payable rnturn. Tho reef which was lost at a break was picked up again. About SUO claims for old ago pensions have been received, besides GO which should havo been addressed to other subdistricts. At Ngarnawahia Joseph White was mulcted in £0 '2s tines and costs for driv- „ ing three horses with siro shoulder;;. A protest was martp at the Exhibition f Executive Committee against the ctesecra--1 tion of the Sabbath by the visiting teams i in the military tournament. They were . taken a trip round the harbor on Sunday last. ! ' The, journeymen saddlers are forming a 1 union. The dividend in Goodson's estate in f bankruptcy is 5s Id in the JEI, not fiid in the £\ as telegraphed. Tho crusade against objectionable cah- ! men started by Inspector Cullen,*has been ■ followed up by tlio Harbor Hoard, and all - objectionablo characters now driving ex- . press I'cni-ts on tho wharves are to be< moved. Some of the cabmen in the presented list had succeeded in getting, it i? said, licenses from the Board. An application has been made to the Clerk of Awards that an industrial dispute between the Auckland Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Metal Workers Industrial Union of Workmen and the masters bo referred to the Conciliation Board for for settlement. A meeting of the Board is called for the 18 th January to hear the points in dispute. Fifty masters are cited to appear. Among the demands are 44 hours per week at Is 3d per hour as the minimum, six years apprenticeship and no improvers. Feilding, Wednesday. Thomas and Annie Looney were yesterday committed for trial on the charge of shooting at Ernest Fraser, a lad, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Wellington, Wednesday. The wet weather and wind in various parts of the province is interfering with the grain yield, which in some districts promised to be phenomenal. DuhEDiN, Wednesday. Judge Williams has intimated that he leaves England on February 3rd, reaching Melbourne on March 15th. The finance committee of the Harbor Board recommend a reduction of export dues on frozen mutton and lamb from lid to a ld, and that the Wellington Board's system of collecting dues be adopted.