TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7543, 16 May 1903, Page 8

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(I\t Pross Association.)

, • ~ Aucicland, This Day. As tne result ot ;he Premier's conference wica ,a u l.ut v , half a milhon acres of Maori i.nd will j, c LanJed over to will come m later on. About 10,000 acres near Momnmlle will be handed to the JNntive (Jouce:l m onc e.

The neanng or the civil action, G. D: Hamilton v. Bank of Kew Zeal-nd i claim to have the conveyance o£ the Mangatoro estate to the defendants *et aside as fraudulent and oppressive against p!aintifl;, was commence in the Supreme Court. Piaintiff'.s case, as outlined by Counsel, is that Hamilton had been entirely in the hands of the bank •■'l' through the trans;ictionp, that he had no independent ltcal advice, but had rebed on advice of rho bunks solicitors, and that the defendant bank took con' trol of the transactions from June, 1331. Chetstchuech, This Lay. Tac carpenters' award affecting the North Canterbury employers was given in the Arbitration Court this morning as follows : —Minimum wage 10s 8d daily, eight hoars and 4i hours .a week's work, overtime time and a quarter the first four hours, tin«e ard a halt afterwards, men sent to country jobs to receive travelling expenses, ten per cent, wa^esand board, nppreniiees indentured, preference to unionists.