NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15296, 8 May 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

,- Test. persons, arrested on,;minor charges, t ■■'■ occupied tie city police cells last' night. v Heads of the State - Departments in ' Auckland will visit the* New. Zealand this morning. *. ;;"'. .The recent citizens' ball was a financial " success, : -credit t balance of -■: about £18 being shown. •*.---* ",; The -, adjourned meeting of creditors in (the bankrupt estate "of Robert Henry ; ITroude,; signwriter, of i,Auckland; .is ; set' down for Monday next, at 2.30 p.m. ~; " " Reform" ■ candidates secured both seats ' allotted to Eden County road \ districts at ♦he. final poll yesterday; if in v connection .''•>;'-•,.'■■'. -with the election of the Auckland Hospital Board. ' , Arrangements are being made'by-.the • Tramways ..'-..Company: -for .the* reconstruc- .' lion of Queen Street; the operations' being delayed, until after the visit of the New Zealand. >.■■■■.:>■■ . Some .. of the Auckland •'. boarding-house- . -keepers decided- yesterday to'' raise : their tariff on June Iby Is per day. They also Sledded "on." a further increase of *2s per \ v Jlay, during the Exhibition period. .:>,/f> '- v r The -installation •_"of; Mr,_ D.' Teed as . flayer of-'Newmarket taßes place at 3.15 ,' Ifc'cJc / lhjs,.afternoon. It will be' followed 'by;, an .''At Home" to the ratepayers, given •:by-the Mayoress? (Mrs. Teed), at I *he^Public Hall, ' Newmarket.;V >; ; 7, The question." of •.?. amending the Municipal:; Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, to jjrovide for, the payment of travelling : expenses incurred by the Mayor in at- . tending to, the business of the City Coun-'.-.j :■;.,,;■: cil, -is :■- receiving' the ; consideration of : the , Department :of Internal Affairs. ■£'■■'&'■. * Invitations to. the dinner in connection Vith the .annual conference of the New C■■■■.v. v,(Zealand Farmers' Union ■ (Auckland Pro- .-.,',■*•. rvinca) are now\ being.issued.;•'; The; dinner '■ v &I % e "iitb.t: take '\ place on -, the % evening of May 22. .Those invited include the , Prime sdmister,; a.-number of members of the Cabinet,arid members of Parliament. '■■; i- The nominations for, delegates to represent v ~ the Auckland Electric Tramways :- p ■Union at the big Labour conference to be ; % held in Wellington in July,v eo far consists ■f;V \ -; of Messrs. W. Jones, S. Buckingham, '.P. v - : ; Richardson,,'F. Derill, H. / Clark, ; and -• ; H.'> Carters ** As only three delegates are { "; - -.' required, a. , ballot will be _ taken of . the :■:■: whole union,' probably to-morrow week. / , -■' t' " * ": * ■ ; ■..'.■.■■ •