TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 75, 8 May 1903, Page 8

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Associ-.uiorO. ARBITRATION COURT. CHRISTCHURCII, To-day. Tho Arbitration Court sat ro tho alleged breaches of the butchers' award. The Christchuixh Meat Company was charged with not giving a holiday on Good Friday, 1902, Show Bay, 1902, and not employing more men. It was admttcd men had been employed from 6 to S those mornings, preparing meat which had been slaughtered on Thursday for Saturday's trade/ It was urged in defence that the practise was unavoidable. DEATH OF MRS MO WAT. BLENHEIM, To-day. M.i\s Alexandra Mowat, o: c or the earliest settlers in the A: ratcre district) died this morning -it the age of 73. She arrived in Nelson in tho ship Mary Ann in tl'.'c year 1842, , j IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. WELLINGTON, This day. Another judgment was delivered in tho Appeal Court afYecting tho provision of the Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1900, requiring the dedication of the land for street widening purposes on subdivision oi land for sale. In the case of a transfer to Coulter, the Court unanimously was of the opinion that the provisions of the above Act do not apply where the owner of the land cuts one piece. off and sells it and retains the rest, and there is nothing to show any intention on his part of selling the rest or any part of it. The transfer was, therefore, ordered to be registered and the costs of both parties were ordered to be paid out of the assurance fund. BOOKMAKERS FINED, HAWEKA, This Day. At the Police Court four bookmakers, named F. Hanson, J. Lowis, and Leno S toll in were oacii fined £1 and £1 costs for trespassing on the Egmont Racing Club's course. Frederick Spence, who did not appear, was lined •£5 and costsa PRODUCE EXPORTS. GISBORNE, To-day. I lie value of produce exported "by home steamers for the first four months last year was £11S 861 For the first four months this'year it has increased to £235,731, nearly double. During similar periods last year seven ocean-going steamers left. For a similar period this year nineteen have loaded. LICENSING APPEAL. WELLINGTON, This Day. Tn tho Appeal Court the motion lor leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the Port Chalmers Licensing case was adjourned to the next sitting of the Court in June by consent. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. AUCKLAND, This Day At tho Police Court Win. Lockhart, clerk to tho Otahuhu Road Board, was charged with stealiiv ten pounds, the property of the Board. The police stated the auditor was going through the Board's books, which were in a bad way Accused pleaded- guilty and was remanded for a week. APPEAL COURT. WELLINGTON, This Day. Tn the appeal case Duncan v the ITutt Borough, which was an appeal from the decision of the Chief Justice, who held that hi cases where land was cut up for saleeach frontage of an allotment, having more than one frontage, must bo to a street sixty feet wide. The Appeal Court unanimously upheld tho Chief Justice's decision with costs on a low scale.