TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3862, 4 October 1899, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

ritESS ASSOCIATION. -CALLIOPE -DOCK, i - AFA ' • AUCKLAND, Tuesday At a meeting of the Harbour Board a letter was received from Messrs’" McArthur and Co., who notified havmg-smp-ped'in the steamer’Hawke’s Bay part ot the machinery for the Calliope dock.More was to bo sent by the’ next iyser steamer, leaving about the middle ot September. A duplicate set. of speciucations and drawings as approved by the Admiralty had been despatched, and Air Metcalfe, engineer for the Calliope dock, also wrote' forwarding drawings of the proposed workshop. The Board decided to approve of the plans, and forwarded them on to the Admiralty for, confirmation. " ■ ■■ y ■ ■■ ■ : ■' t. GENERAL ELECTIONS. AUCKLAND,’ Tuesday. Mr F. E. Baume addressed a meeting of Auckland electors to-night, and received a vote of confidence. He announced himself as a supporter of the present Ministry. He said he would leave the questions of prohibition and federation to be decided by the ncople. NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. ■Mr E. M. Smith, Liberal candidate for the New Plymouth seat, addressed a large liieoting in the Theatre"Royal’ to-night, and had a good reception. He expressed himself as being strongly in favour of the-’ Government policy. A vote of confidence in the Government and in Mr Smith was passed. CUSTOAIS RETURNS. : NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The Customs duties for the September quarter were £5382, as against £4821 for the corresponding period of last year, the imports £17,080 as against £14,774, and the exports £17,549 as against £BBBI. OPENING OF BUTTER SEASON. NEW PLYMOUTH; Tuesday. ■ The steamer Ro’tOiti took away to-day 1993 boxes of butter for transhipment to the lonic for London. The season opens remarkably well. The supplies are largely -in-excess of .those,, of previous years. ' BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE. k ; - DUNEDIN, Tuesday.. 'A dispute has ariseirbotween Hie Dunedin .branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and . Joiners , and, masterbuilders, of "Huiiedm. •. Ninety-five cmnloyers .arcs, cited; under an application tq have:the, dispute,referred to the Concilia,tion Board for settlement. . The •men ask, inter alia, that the rate of pay lidiall bo Is 4UI an hour ; that on, all works the employer shall provide a properlysecured place for the safety of the employees’ tools, and also necessary sanitary conveniences ; and that the number of apprentices and improvers together' shall not exceed one to every three competent journeymen or fraction of the first three employed, all apprentices to be legally indentured for five years. : . “COUNCILLOR YATES.” 'AUCKLAND.-. Tuesday, i Mrs Yates, ox-Mayor of OnehuugaV who was recentlv •. re-olcctad to tile , Borough" Council, made things very lively at last night’s'meeting, : She protested that she could not get her resolutions seconded, and that she had to fight for the, .-ratepayers single-handed. „ Airs Yates. insisted on Joeing addressed as “Councilor > YatesjT and-'s rcspcctlully. The -Mayor (Dr Erson) said he must .ask the members 'to address each other as “Councillor.” The..minutes were read by the Town Clerk in a high-pitched voice," drowning-an .equally vigorous protest by Airs .Yates about an alleged irregularity . The 'Town .Clerk get tlirougub f and the minutes wore confirmed. ' “NO’LICENSE” AIEETING. ■ • ■ " DUNEIJIN, Tuesday. ; A “no license” meeting was held tonight under the auspices of the Council of Christian - Churches. Despite cokßrainy weather,'- about 600 persons attend--ed. The first motion, carried with only one dissentient, was to endorse, jjhc platform of-the Council of Churches in relation to the local option poll. The second resolution was, “ That this meeting pledges itself to vote ‘ no license ’ and ‘ reduction’ at the forthcoming local option poll, ’ and urges the electors to do the same.” This was carried unanimously, r f ~TC"-

INDER DIVORCE SU 1T.,, - DUNEDTb!; Tuesday

■ ; In ■ the Divorce Court td-da'y;; Ji. lice Jane Inder (nco Larnach) obtained a rule nisi in her suit against William Francis Inder. solicitor,, of Gnrfv,, , The parties -were married iii 1802, and iir'Tß9B Mrs Inder found an incriminating letter, which led to her husband’s being watched, with the result that positi-yp evidence was procured 'concerning hhv.i hi proper relations with Kate Gallagher. '-ho respondent did not appear.-■ . Airs Inder was granted the custody of her-.child. COAL MINE SOLD. DUNEDIN. TmisduyiT- - Tiro New Zealand Collieries Oil Syndicate has purchased Blackie’s Castle Hill Coal Mine, for £IB,OOO. , > FINE FOR ASSAULT. , : INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. At Riverton to-day George VV'ebb was sentenced to fourteen-days’ imprisonment for pushing Mildred Callaghan from her bicycle on the! road 'near. Fairfax. It [was stated in evidence >fiat he knelt beside 'her,' caught her hands and made an attempt to interfere with hex dress. She pulled his whiskers, and he let go.‘ When summoned, Webb told the constable that he pushed the woman off because ; she came close to him, and was' riding without a light. In evidence the defendant said ..the affair was accidental. He was I near-sighted, and did not see her coming She ran into him arid fell, -find' he- picked her up. .That was his reason, for .taking hold .of her hands. He alleged that the mother of the proeecutrix, when she came to him to ask an explanation,,, brought two men with her, and that they' assaulted him. The defendant’s father gave evidence that when his son returned home his face was covered with blood.