INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 7915, 12 June 1902, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

ByTefegwph. Pes Pbxss Association. I WLLINGTON. June 11- " The Arbitration Court expects to close the Wellington session . to-morrow, and. will leave 'immediately for Uunedin. A return of the quantitv and value of frozen meat) and dairy produce -entered for j export from New Zealand last month shows i the following totals:—Butter, 13,136 cwt, £63,428; cheese, 7663 cwt, £16,652; beef 33, ,£3o9cwt, £52,413; carcases of mutton 188,466, £119,348; legs and pieces of mublon 14,351 cwt, £16,148; lamb 91.815 cwt, £142,589. The quantity of butter Bent away was nearly double that exported hi the "corresponding"month of last year, but there was a shrinkage in cheese of about 7000 cwt as compared with May, 1901. A comparison with the latter month also shows about 13,000 cwt cheese, about 94,000 carcases of mutton, nearly 11,000 kgs and pieces of mutton, and 37,000 carcases of lamb in favor of May of the present year. The Chief Justice gave the award of the Compensation Court to-day in the case in which Captain Popham. Brery stable keeper, claimed £IO,OOO from the City Council for loss of property and business occasioned bvthe Council taking land for street widening. The award of the Court gave the claimant £2516.

The Suburbs Licensing Committee unanimously refused to grant a new licence at Newtown. The troopship Manila, which arrived ab Albanv yesterdav with 300 of the Seventh Regiment of New Zealand Mounted Infantry on board, will call at Hobart and Svdney, and then come direct to Wellington -

DUNKDLN. June 10. A petition has been forwarded to the Government requesting the purchase of Mr John M*Neil's property of 160 acres, close to Baicratfba, for workmen's homes. Another case has been added to the long list before the Arbitration Court, which will be asked to decide whether the two illegitimate children of the late Archibald M'Lean, on account of whose death the First Chance Gold Bredging Company had to pay £4OO, are dependants, and, if so, to apportion their share. At a meeting of the members of the Dunedin Athenaeum to-night a morion was carried authorising the committee to borrow £3OOO to extend the accommodation and provide a. smoking room and a room for ladies.

At a meeting of the City Council tonight, after lengthy discussion in commitree with reference to Sunday trading in hotels, it was resolved that the Mayor be requested to interview the Inspector of Police on the subject. The Council also adopted a motion asking the Acting-Pre-mier to have instructions given in the telephone exch'anee so that quick facilities may be given for securing medical assistance.

AUCKLAND. June 11. There is a deadlock on the Conciliation Board over the appointment of a chairman in place of the Rev. Mr Collins, resigned. The Labor members nominated the. Rev. Burgess and tie others insisted that the chairman should be a lawyer or other person with legal or commercial qualifications to adjudicate points submitted for the chairman's ruling. They offered to accept one of the ten names they submitted. The Labor members declined. A similar dead'ock occurred on a previous occasion, when the Government appointed the Rev. Collins, the nominee of the Labor representatives.

Giving evidence before tihe Licensing Camroifctee this morning, as to the increase of drunkenness in Auckland. Sergeant Hendry stated that in 1838 the number of arrests m Auckland Police District was 611. Last year it was 1272. In Auckland Licensing District, the arrests were 664 in 1898. as against 1429 last. year.

PALMERSTOX NORTH. 1 June 11. ? The first distribution of hansomely illustrated cards, commemorating the pro. ' cremation of peace, took place at the CoL 1 lege street school to-day, the cards being presented by Mr Pirani, M.H.R., and thß s Revl C. .C. Harper, Chairman of School '• Committee. The cards which will be distribute in the Palmerston North school district are profusely illustrated, bearing a representation of prominent generals and important features of the war. The boy Dander, who was caught in j the flywheel of a gas engine yesierday, died in the hospital to-day. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 11. The Licensing Committee met- this afternoon, and Mr Brabant, the Auckland S.M.* sitting. The committee granted a license to the Hotel Commonwealth. TTMARU. ' June 11. , The Supreme Court criminal sessions .concluded to-day. In the Tenruka assault, and robbery case the jury, after an hour and a halfs retirement, returned a verdict of not guilty, handing in also a slip deprecating tie amount of drunknenness allowed m the streets as the case had disclosed. Nicolas Gestro, aged 22, of Welb'ngton. was acquitted of the charge of forging and • utfcerine a cheque at Timaru in August. 1900, by which he got a suit of clothes and £4 cbanee. The tailor and his assistant identified him, but counsel for the defence saved him by a simple "-mthropometrical measurement." Accused was measured in Court as for a suit, and was found to be a smaller man than -the person who cot the suit and passed the cheque. Tn the divorce jurisdiction a decree nisi was granted in the case Watts v. Watts (Fairlie), the wife's petition, on the ground of habitual drankennes and ill-us3ge. INVERCARGILL. June 11. By an error in tfb9 compilation of the ; Winter Show list the Wyndham Factory was given first prize for 5 cwt of cheese suitable for export, with the Gore Factory second. The real winners were : Edendale 1. Wyndham 2. The Tutanekai to-day laid the cable to Stewart Island for use as a telephone. Sir J. G. Ward and party were on baord.