LATE NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9052, 22 January 1901, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

—•» — (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Mr Ward told a deputation, including the Mayor, Colonel Webb, and others, that he thinks the Imperial troops will come to New Zealand. Military etiquette was for them to come m cases of the kind, but under the. circumstances all big functions would be avoided. The present intention was for the troops to stay at Invercargill three hours, leaving there at noon on the 2nd, staying an hour at Gore, and arriving- at Dunedin at 7on Saturday night. The troops are to be entertained by the citizens m the Agricultural Hall, with a big church parade on Sunday on the old Asylum grounds at the Town Belt. The troops leave here by special train at 7.30 on the morning of the 4th, staying an hour at Oamaru and 'Timaru, and probably at Ashburton. At the Conciliation Board to-day the Boilermakers' and Shipbuilders' Union cited all the employers m Otago and Southland. Their claims are 48 hours per week, boilermakers to receive not less than Is od an hour, overtime at one and a half above ordinary', rates, except on statutory holidays, when double time is demanded; apprentices to be indentured for five years, after three months' probation, with one apprentice to every journeyman; country workmen to be paid fares both ways besides living expenses on the job; preference for unionists; boilermakers employed on repairing work to receive a shilling a day extra as dirt money." The case is proceeding. ' TTMARU, this day. The Timaru Presbytery to-day accepted the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Gillies, and will recommend bis appointment by the Assembly as minister emeritus. The Harbor Board to-day resolved to ; determine the contract for the eastern rubble mole, on the ground that the contractors were making insufficient progress.