TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4298, 6 March 1901, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

PBESB ASSOCIATION. ' WOODYILLE, March 5. George Rogers, with half a. dozen aliases, another of the gang of spielers that visited Woodville at race time, was sentenced this morning to three months’ imprisonment for obscene language, and to one month’s imprisonment for vagrancy. GISBORNE, March 5. An election under the Maori Councils Act is being held to-day. There is no ballot.. Every adult native has a right to nominate whom he or she pleases, and the twelve receiving the greatest of nominations are elected.

NEW PLYMOUTH, March 5. The Hon A. J. Oadman and Mir E. M. Smith, M.H.R., went to Mokau this morning to inspect the coal mines and other mineral resources. They both intend to leave for England shortly to lay the mineral resources of Taranaki before capitalists.

' AUCKLAND, March 5. _ The _ Conciliation Board gave its decision in the carpenters’ and joiners’ dispute. The. hours of work are placed at 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (one hour for dinner); on Saturdays from 8 o’clock till noon. In the factories ■ the hours are to he from 7.30 till 5, and 7.30 till noon on Saturday. Wages Journeyman carpenter, Is 3d per hour; in factories, £2 11s per week of forty-seven hours. The decision also deals at great length with the question of piecework, preference to non-union-ists (when rides allow anyone of good character now employed in the trade to join on payment of an entrance fee of not more than 5s and not more than 6d per week), apprentices and other matters.

At the hearing of the charge of wife murder against Rawiri Te Ua, the jury was unable to agree. A new trial will take place.

HOKITIKA, March 5. The Supreme Court was occupied all day with the case of Ben Lawson, charged with perjury, the case rising out of the recent “salting” exposure. Mr Justice Denniston, in summing up, said the Crown had a strong ease. He was bound to say that perjury was becoming a common 'offence. The jury has been locked up till midnight. DUNEDN, March 5. Three pastoral leases in Lake County were sold to-day, two at the upset and one at £lO per annum above the upset. TIMARU, March 5. The Timaru Main School Committee has resolved to ask the Board to make its school a district high school, as under the new regulations there are pupils enough (about 40) to pay special teachers of secondary subjects.