INTERPROVINCIAI,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7653, 11 June 1896, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAI,

[PerPrkss Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. In the Magistrate's Courb W. H. IVanklyn, of Inglewood, was charged with having exported 213 boxes of butter not stamped, as required by the Dairy Industry Act. Mr Thornton, Government produce ' grader at Wellington, stated that he had learned that the butter was about to be exported from Wellington. It had come from New Plymouth in the Takapuna, and was beiug transhipped at this port for Sydney. There was no brand on the boxes, as required by | the D^iry Industry Act, and no registered number. Witness wired to the defendant, who was the owner, telling him that if he desired it witness would stamp the butter here. The butter, however, was not held back, but was exported without being stamped. Witness thereupon instituted the proceedings. After the evidence of Mr Thornton had been taken the case was adjourned for a fortnight, in order that counsel might be instructed. The close season for seals has been extended until tho end of June next. In order to check the arrival into the colony of Chinese vvilh letters of naturalisation belonging to Chinamen who had departed from the colony, the Government has decided not to issue any more letters pending an amendment of the law by which Chinamen becoming naturalised will have to be photographed. The Wellington Racing Club has been informed by the Colonial Secretary that a totalisator permit is available, and therefore the club will hold its winter meeting about the middle of July. The stewards meet to-morrow to decide whether the meeting shall extend over one or two days. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Ernest Louis, until lately a storekeeper at Featherston, in the Wairarapa. Louis is said to have left there ostensibly on a matrimonial trip, but is now believed to have absconded to Sydney. The majority of his creditors are in Wellington, A reward of ,£SO is offered for his arrest. An action was begun in tho Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice and a common jury of twelve, in which Alfred Orossey, licensee of the Terminus hotel, Courtenay I'lace, sues Richard Crabb, temperance advocate, claiming £401 damages for slander in remarks said to have been made by defendant on May 31st in addressing a street corner mob. The remarks were to the effect that plaintiff's house was not conducted decently and was frequented by disreputable people. These statements, plaintiff says, have injured his credit and reputation as an hotelkeeper. Defendant, in his filed defence, denies in the first place having made use of the words attributed to him, but adds that if he did use any of them they had not the meaning attributed by plaintiff and were not of a defamatory nature, but were spoken honestly and without malice and as a matter of public comment upon the liquor trade iv general, and not upon tho plaintiff and the conduct ot his hotel in particular. Messrs Skerrett and Young appear for plaintiff, and Sir Kobert Stout for the defendant. AUCKLAND, 'To-day. At the election of the graduates' member for the University College Council Sir Maurice O'Rorke, chairman of the Council, was defeated by Mr Major, M.A., by 27 to 16. Mr Robert Hall, a member of the Council, promptly resigned his seat as a protest against the action of the graduates, in order to allow Sir Maurice O'Rorke to be renominated for the vacancy. The Now Zealand and River Plate Co. have declared an interim dividend of five per cent, per annum. Tbos. Hardie and James SteiD, charged with stealing £227 from the Rotorua post office, were sentenced to three yeara' imprisonment. The money found on the prisoners is to be paid over to the Post-master-General. A special meeting of the Presbytery was held last night for the purpoßO of taking evidence in support of the petition lodged by a section of the Church members against the call of the Rev. J. Milne to St. Andrew's Church beiug sustained. Subsequently a meeting of the congregation was held, and a resolution was read regretting that the officebearers of the church should have taken the call round for signatures. Great dissatisfaction was apparent upon the reading of the resolution, and several of those present showed their disapproval in a decidedly emphatic manner. The Rev. Scott West, who moved the resolution, attempted to address the meeting, but met with, such emphatic opposition and clamor that he found it necessary to appeal to the Moderator for order. The Rev. Mr Monro said the course pursued by the Presbytery was the only one left open to them. Of 92 members who had originally signed the call four had now withdrawn their signatures, which left only 88 on the list, and as 90 was tho required number to represent a threefif ths majority it had been declared "no call." These remarks were signalised by another outburst of disapproval, and the Rev. Scott West on rising to reprove the dissatisfied parties said that suoh a display of feeling was unsightly in the House of God. At the close of the meeting the question of the call was freely discussed, and many of those in favor of Mr Milne freely expressed their intention of seceding from the church and taking up the Choral Hall with a view of letting it to the rev. gentleman in question, NAPIER, To-day. As ex-Detective Kirby was an important witness in several cases at the coming sitting j of the Supreme Court, and he cannot arrive iv time, application will be made to have his evidence in the lower Court admitted. A man named George Edwards was working on the side of a blast at the breakwater hill wheu a large stone from above struck him in the back, and he died before reaching the hospital. He was a recent arrival from Wellington, where he is supposed to have a wife and family. INVEECARGILL, To-day. At the annual meeting of the Wallace Licensing Committee, the chairman (Mr Poyntun, 5.M.,) said he was satisfied that uine-lenthß of the Sunday trading could he pub down by a simple amendment of the Act making any person found on licensed premises after hours on Sunday liable to a penalty. The Committee resolved that the Minister of Justice be requested to insert such a clause in the Act, to bring it into conformity with the English law imposing a penalty on persons found on licensed premises during prohibited hours.