TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4312, 22 March 1901, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

' ... , Jew-/ allT pini;>i»ouT»x. ~ WANGANUI,. Mareh *l. At the championship swimming »P«id* today swimmers were, present from_. fetent parts of the colony. The NSW Zealand rocord Tor. fifty. kon by G. Tyler (Dunedin), who won i» 2min 9 l-S*oL The.high *ve ship was won by (Weuingtoa| and the plunge championship hvW; Mahoney (Wanganui), T. Gray (Welling* ton)i.J»i»W 4. aL'v . GISBORNE, March *l. The Harbour’ Board election. rScsstlp upset by a petition took place to-day. The result —Captain!Tucker,- 370; Mr 343. Mr Pottie, who was #mrt| «• successful ones at the first ©lection, ea tamed ,262 votes,, and Mr. Joyce, petitioned, obtained 240. AUCKLAND, Mhroh.il. The carpenters’ and joiners’ dispats was before the Conciliation Bosro *•* day. The employe** .’refused toSMtft the . Board’s award,.and.'' the esse wi“ probably go before.) the . Arbitrntiee. Court. The ironmoulders 1 ' dispute Wee also before tho Court. The empleyere refused fjo accept- the finding ot »• Court unless it was amended, and the Board adjourned in the hope of the farr ties agreeing .to a settlement. .An., officer of the Auckland Oarties discovered -an illicit .still at near Coromandel,. to-day,' and arteefced three men named Ferguson, McOormiek and McLean! The eristenoo of, this atiu has been suspected fbf two; years, and several unsuccessful searches 'have previously 1 been made. '' - ;

, DUNEDIN'. March.2l. Thera was an insurance ,pf ~£8770 on . the New Zealand, - Express .Company ■ premises dn the New? Zealand - I Company, reinsured as follows r : -United,- National and Guardian,-, £IOOO ’ each;, Viotona, £750;, Northern, £500.' : The-stored furniture destroyed was owned, .by about thirty-five different: persons.:,Sqni)» of it was insured :,by the owner*." ■ At, the Police Court two dairykeepers, Richardr! and’ Thomas - Coughlin, ’were each-fined 5s for carrying pigs food in suring vansusedfor delivering milk. r , ~, ,MANGAWTEEfA, ’March 4 22. Tho’s. Albert; publisher of vthe : "Man. gaweka Set,tier,” was to-day fined £2 and costs for publishing .an advertisement of a “£iooo -for Is” art union at Sydney. The advertisement was sent him from the promoters and in the ordinary course. OBBISTCHUEOH, March 31. Since the" City Council resumed purchasing 'rats' on March 15th about" 120 have -heen-paid foe.