MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 51, 13 March 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

(United Press Association). Copyright. LONDON, March 12f Oxford University has accepted he late Mr Stephen William Silver's collection of New <_t;aland >irds. «■ I Fifty wonieti, advocating female iufirage, attempted to sec Sir r H. j. Bannerman without an appointnent, and, refusing to disperse, leveral were arrested, but released.. An earthquake has occurred i at ?ashahr (near HimaKaya Mounains), and eight have been killed md 26 injured. I NEW YORK, March 12. , Tho men's demands for a readjustment of wages and better conlitions in the American anthracite ields have been rejected. • 1 BRISBANE, March 12. Heavy rain is 'falling generally. SYDNEY, March 12. Heavy rains havo been experienced in the Riverina and other parts of the .State. The country round White Cliffs has been an unbroken sheet of water for 40. miles. Tho people took refuge on the house-, tops until the flood abatud. A dressmaker working in Kentstreet has been seized with the plague. Tile proposal of the Federal Government to introduce the telephone toll systani has aroused strenuous opposition. A large' meeting of telephone subscribers dtjeided to oppose the system by every constitutional means. Two vessels from the West Coast of America have arrived. They encountered a terrific hurricane in the vicinity of Tahiti, and one vessel was in a tornado for 18 hours. Berth vessels were thrown on their beam, ends, . tho mountainous seas rolling over them. The Homebush markets are very active, owing to short supplies. Best crossbred wethers ranged from 18s 3d to 24s 9d ; best ewes from 18S to 19s ; best bullocks fetched £12 14s, and cows £7 ss. Beef brought 24s per lOOlbs. Tho fire at the Proprietary n.ino is extending southward to McBryde's shatt. AUCKLAND, March 12. At the Police Court to-day dollil SchiShchkia, a local merchant, was committed for trial on a charge ol imitating the registered brand of the Gisborfld Sheep Farmers' Frozen Meat Company, Limited, stamped upon bags containing bone, flesh, and blood manure, manufacture- by that Company. Evidence was given by Robert Smith, of OnchunlJa, that he ordered from, tho defendant a certain number of bags of Gisborno Company's manure, for which Schishcva was agent. When the consignment was delivered, Smith discovered that the manure was different from and inferior to previous consfignffients. When spoken to on the subject, Schischka at first maintained that the manure was the Gisborne Coy.'s, but he afterwards admitted that it was a substitute. Further evidence was to the effect that the manure supplied by the defendant contained 2.4 per cent., and that of tho Gisborne Co., about 10 per cent, of ammonia. CHRISTCHURCH, March 12. A ".pedal meet ng of the Tramway Board was held this afternoon to vconsidcr matters in connection with tho Electrical Construction Company. The secretary was instructed to write to the Board's Engineer to the effect that the Board had been advised by its solicitors that the contract time having expired it should inform him that the Board intended to enforce the penalties provided for in their contract under agreement with the Construction Company. The Board's Engineer is constituted the sole arbitrator on the points in dispute. HOKITIKA, March 12. In the Supreme Court, Leigh Hunt, charged with breaking and entering at Reefton on October 10, 100-l, was found ...illy of larceny only, and was sentenced to twelve months. This concluded thu business. THAMES, March 12. Considerable interest is manifested in the election of a Licensing Committee. Two distinct tickets will ffo to the poll. Attempts at a compromise between the two parties failed. The No-license Party was offered two seats on the Committee, which formerly consisted of the Moderate Party's representatives, but the offer was declined. Mr Pratt, a local .brickleycr, fell into a lime tub. It is believed that he will lose the sight of one eye, and the other is in danger.li The _tm.ber industry remains brisk- The Selwyn Craig, a, barqMentine, has just left with 360,000 feet of tinker for Australian ports. The barquentines lima and Handa Isle are at present loading. A proposal has been made that the Har. bour Board should construct a wharf, costing ten thousand sterling, to cope with the future requirements in the timber export trade. WESTPORT, March 12. At a public meeting held in Westpore to-nSght, called to cansider what steps should bo taken to effect an improvement in tho output of coal from the Seddonville State, the Mayor presiding, a deputation from Seddonville laid its views before the meeting. It was stated that the mine had not worked more than half-time since its inception, and that since the beginning of the present year it lad worked only 30 days 2 hours. Much dissatisfaction was express;d with the Wellington managcnent, and resolutions were carried is follows v-(l). That this public leeting urges upon the Uovern--8— * ""^^

■MWV.WB ■ ———___— ™_—b_.-^__ —————— — ■ ment the necessity of expeditiously | working the Seddonville coal minei the present method of working only a few days a week being a great injustice to the miners at beddonville, and the whole of this, district, and also to tho coal consumers' of the colony. (.2). That the commercial methods of dealing with the sale of the S_ld-onv.llc coal ar« «M fttfatac t 01 ft_,, a £S and" quire complete reorganisation, ana this meeting urges the opemnfi. °f agencies in Wellington and tto other chief centres of the colony under the Mines Department 101 the softs sale of Seddonville coal. (3). That this meeting strongly recommends that the f.o.b. price at Westport, or in the trucks at I Seddonville, be advertised in the chief co.onial papers. (4). That las the Seddonville mine is easily ! worked, and can produce 2000 tons per week of first/-/, ass coal, it seems strange, considering the | largest mine in the district is : | about putting on a double shift, j I that the Seddonvtlle coal cannot be j !sold at a payai-ile price, as the for- | mor Cardiff Company found a ready sale for similar coal. | _, j