INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9118, 11 April 1901, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

I (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Auckland builders have resolved by a large majority to take the dispute with their employees to the Arbitration Court. They received a deputation from bricklayers' laborers, andv. agreed to reduce the hours to 44 a week, and to increase the ptty to a shilling an hour. Ethel Stanley, aged 167 left- her parents' residence at Te Aroha on Good Friday evening, m a light muslin dress and Jtouse shoes, and has not .returned. Search parties are out. There is no clue us to ber whereabouts. PALMERSTON N., this day. The draughts tournament concluded last night, Gardiner (Gore) securing the championship with a score of 18£, being half a point ahead of Brodie, the exchampion, and Mulvey. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Draughts Association Mr W. Robinson, of Christchurch, was elected President. Vice-Presidents were appointed m various parts of the colony. The visitors were entertained at a banquet by the local Clud last' evening. WELLINGTON, this day. Two Angora goats purchased by the Agricultural Department from, the late Sir. Samuel Wilson's estate m Victoria are now on Soames Island, Wellington Harbor, and others are being imported from South Australia. The Government intend breeding the goats on a limited scale. The Wellington Opera. House Company declares a dividend oi 7 per cent. The Teachers' Salaries Commission hold their first sitting at Wellington on the 22nd inst. By the Tarawera on Saturday four witnesses m the Conway case will leave fßr Sydney, viz.. Con way's brother from Dunedin. E. Smith, chemist, and Misses Heskett and Lancaster, all of Christchurch. The Midland Railway Commission sat this morning, and took* the evidence of David Wallace, who was traffic manager of the Midland Company, and is now goods agent on the Government line at Dunedin. DUNEDIN, this day. Thomas Couway, a brother of Patrick Conway, proceeds' to Sydney by the. Tarawera to give evidence 'in the case of Mrs Smith. Mr J. A. Law, of the linn of Henderson, Law, and Co., is dead. Cr. Chapman is announced as a candidate for the City Mayoralty. The Christchurch Cathedral Committee has decided to call for fresh tenders for the completion of the building, with -alternative tenders for the .completion of the transepts only. It is believed that the available funds will suffice for the latter. Dr Morley, during the course of his Harvest Thanksgiving sermon at. the Wesley an Church, Sumner, quoted from an authority a statement that New Zealand is now annually exporting as much produce as would feed ten millions of people.

Whilst the number of cattle slaughtered at the Dunedin abattoirs during the past "year was nearly double the number m the first year, the count of condemned cattle did not materially increase. So Mr W. D. Snowball reports to the City Council, and he modestly adds that the improvement is due to greater care on tha part of the buying butchers.

The Pastoralists' Beview considers the effects of the drought will be very severely felfc m Queensland. There will be such a difficulty m the labor market as has never been 'experienced m any Australian colony yet. The pastoral lessee's tenure is running out," and he has but poor security to give for further advances for restocking.