GENERAL AT TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11951, 28 April 1902, Page 5

GENERAL AT TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[Ny TKI.EGR.mr.— I'RESS ASSOCIATION'.] V/ksti'oht, Sunday. The Westport Coal Company's output last week was 10,026 tons 15cwt. (h'.i;vMon'ii. Sunday. Coal exports for the week were:—Blackball Company, 626 tons 15cwt coal; Bnmner Company, 217 tons 16cwt coal, 116 tons coke. Wkstport, Sunday. Mr. Kiley has retired from the Mayoral contest, leaving the present Mayor, Mr. Scanlon, and .Mr. Marshall, a former Mayor, to fight the election between them.

Nafikr, Saturday. The Arbitration Court sat here to-day to take evidence in the machinists" and typographical dispute. After hearing local "witnesses the Court adjourned to New Plymouth, to Hit on Wednesday next. The awards in these two disputes will be given 10 days later in Wellington. DoNEDIN, .Saturday. At the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Williams granted a decree nisi in the divorce case Craig v. Craig, wife's petition, the wife being given the custody of the children. Walter Goodwin, who was severely handled when found on the premises of Mrs, Blondford, in High-street, and was committed to the Supreme Court on a charge of burglary, received a, sentence of 12 months imprisonment. In bankruptcy, Robert Dynes, farmer, of Glenkenrich, who had previously been dealt with in the lower Court, under the criminal clauses of the Act for failing to deliver up cattle, had his order of discharge suspended for two years. In a special report on the deer herd in the Morven Hills, Lake Hawea, received by the Acclimatisation .Society from Mr. o*. Turnbull, it was stated that the deer are in beautiful Condition, fairly thick everywhere, and in sufficient numbers to assume that in a few years good shooting will bo obtained over' all the vast pass country leading to the West Coast. As regards sport, if, is safe to say that there ne>er have been so many good heads as this year.