INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7696, 13 December 1899, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

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(per united press association.)

WELLINGTON. Dooembor 12. (Eho Gear Moat Prosorving Company has a balance availablo for appropriation oj L 3848 7s, which the directors reoommend should bo apportioned as follows :—ln paymonb of a dividend on tho paid-up capital of the oompany (of which an interim dividend ab tho raoo of 10 por cont. for tho half year has already been paid), L 4600 J to bo carried lorward to tho next year's account, L 3748. OCho Wellington Racing Club stewards havo received an application from F. Holmes, who was disqualified for 12 monthß In connootlon with tho running of Wedlock at tho spring mooting, for a re-hearing of the oaao. 'lho stowards decided not to reoognißo his right to appeal, as their finding was on tho question of fact, but rosolved \ to hoar his ovluonco for mitigation of son- \ tenoo at the nexb mooting of tho stewards on ; tho Bth of January. I (The funeral of Mr H. A. Flold, lato mom- ! bor for Otaki, at Otaihanga, near Waikanao, this afternoon, was largoly attended, amongst those present being the Premier. Beforo his doath Mr Field oxpressed a wish that his brothor should contest tho soat, and tho election committee mot to-day and asked him to stand. This ho consented to do, and tho Premier having accepted him, Mr Field will bo tho Govornment candidate. Decembor 13. At a meeting of looal shareholders in tho N.Z. Talisman Gold Mining Co,, it waß deoidod to doolino tho proposals received from London for amalgamation. The Pakoha loft England on Decembor 4th for Auckland and Wellington.

DUNEDTN. December 12. Arrived—Ship Canterbury, Captain Collingwood, from Glasgow. The roaidenco and store of T. Simpson, at Shag Point, was destroyod by firo this morning. Tho house was insured for Ll5O in tho Standard, and LSO in tho Imperial, while tho stock, and furniture wore* insured la tho Standard for LIOO. Lord Ranfurly arrivod in town from Melbourne thla evoning. During his stay in Australia ho visited his property at Mildura and found things in tho irrigation colony in a thriving and prosperous condition. In South Australia he vißited various industrial Bchools and homes.

At a sitting in chambors bo-day a summono for the discovery of tho free assets in oonnootion with tho liquidation of the Ward Farmers' Association was argued. The matter had boen beforo tho Court previously in anothor form. It was an application to secure tho payment out of the estate of the oostt o! and inoidontal to an inquiry before the Oourt. It was held that the debonture holders oould not bo charged with the inquiry, and as tho debentures wore apparently a charge upon tho wholo ot the assets, no fund was forthcoming for payment. She summons argued to-day was to have certain Bums arising from the profits on the working stores, made available. The decision was resorved.

OHRISTOHUROH. December 12.

A mooting of tho College Board of Governors docidod that Professor Bickerton bo olforod the appointment of Professor of Chemistry at a Balary of L7OO, and that a Professor of Pliyalcs bo appointed at a salary of LBOO.

The Arbitration Court this morning gavo judgmeno on tho legal points argued the previous day in the grocers' dispute. The employees had objeotod that grooers' assistants nob being persons engaged in an industry within the meaning of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, could not rogister as an industrial union, that the certificate of registration was therefore null and void, that if the corrifioate was nob null and void it did nob confor upon members of tho union tho right to havo an award between thom and the employees, and that the employers wore retail grocers morely, and nob ongagod in manufacturing or business of an industrial charaober within tho meaning of the Acb, and that, thorefore, they were nob Bubjeot to itß provisions. The President said ho did nob think that, according to the popular sense in which the words "industrial matters" wera used, they could be understood as including tho trades of retail traders, and ho did nob think that the diapnbo bebween bho grocers and their assistants would, in popular language, be roforred to as an industrial dispute. He pointed out that shopß wero not named in section 27 of tho Aob giving power of inspection, and that ib waa improbable that if it had been intended to bring shopkeepers and shops within tho Acb all referonco to shops would havo beor\ omitted from that section. In his opiniou ib had not been mado out in the present oaso that tho persons sought to be aCfeotod oamo within the juiißdiction of tho Court. Ib was, however, still open to the Union to tnovo the Supreme Court for a mandamus to the Arbitration Court to hear the disputo. Tho romainder of the day was oooupiod in hearing evidenco in the builders' dispute, tho Court reserving its decision. Tho sarutlneoro in tho Riacarton election aab from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. this morning. The result is still unsottled, as several disputed points havo yot to bo docidod. It will probably taka two or throe days before tho issuo is definitely sottlod. For tho second of tho sorles of local wool aalos, whioh opens to-morrow, 12,877 bales havo boon catalogued.

AUCKLAND. Docombor 11

Ronpootlng tho disappearance of Captain Oloaen, of tho barquo Agra, his boat was discovered yestorday on Fitzgerald's Spit, about throe miles from the ship. There cannot bo any doubt that he was accidentally drowned. Ho le&veß a wife in Poragrund, Norway, having married three months before his departure from Norway. HU wife was to have met him in Liverpool on Ilia arrival there. The boat had evidently capsized through the main sheet having bocomo fast. Whon found tho boat was half burled In tho sand, but there were no traces of tho body. Tho sea was too rough for tho soarohora to remain and look for tho missing man. It aeoma only too clear that tho unforaunato oaptain has been drowned through tho capsizing of the boat. December 12.

John Cullinano, who attempted to commit Buioldo at Hamilton, has boon committed for trial. Ho had L4O on him when arrested. Ho reooives Ll4O per annum from Homo, and says tho money ia a nuisance to him. An inquoat was hold to-day at the hospital on Mra Kato Madigan, who died at the hoapital undor circumstances which necessitated an inquiry. Aftor hearing ovidenco tho jury roturnod a verdict to the offectthat tho oauao of daath was aouto blood poisoning through tho absorption into the blood of putrefaotiro matter, caused by tho rupture of tho utorua, and that tho said rupture waa duo to an lllogal aot performed by deceased upon herself for tho purposo of procuring abortion.

NAPIER. December 12,

tCho offiolal ro-oount of the general election votsH givoa Mr Fraser a majority of 38, an Jnoroaao of two. A comparison of the rolls disclosed eight con instances of dual voting.

NEW PLYMOUTH. December 12. Tho Borough Council has decided to tako a poll of tho ratopayors on tho proposal to borrow L6OOO, of which L 29,000 will be devoted to repayment of an existing loan, L 21,000 for electric lighting and additional water supply, LBQOO for streets, L2OOO to paying off tho overdraft. Tho schemo preparod by Mcßars S. H. Motcalfe and E. Ifemi, Auckland, for tho waterworks and electrio lighting was awarded first protnium,

REEFTON. December 12. Mr O'Regan rocolved a groat ovation on his arrival hero from Woatport. Addressing tho crowd, ho said that hia defeat was duo ohieflyto tho fact that the prejudices of an 'Jcnonrat aoatlon of oleotors were atirrod up ibout the 'lranavaal war. Paid emissaries :j wore secretly sunt among tho oleotors with extracts from apenahes of the Irish members , of tho House of Commons, and ho waß , B«oretly accused of holding the Bamo views, Although tho peraona reaponaiblc for thiß triok knew it was false. Ho had also lost a

ot of support through not patronising the hotel. Though his opponents thought they had attended hiß-political funeral, he waß still a very live corpse, and would yet give the enemy plenty of trouble.