INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPer Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. . The application of Mr A. D. Willis, on .. behalf of the Wanganui and Wellington account book manufacturers, to ha.ye Auckland firms brought under their award, was dismissed m the Arbitration Count this morning on the ground that the Act stipulated' that, it must be ; sliowri. that a majority both of employers and workers of the Unions were bound. Judge Cooper said it was evident the Act hl this respect was very defective. The petition for upsetting the. Grey Lynn election has been withdrawn!, and/^f it is probable the Parnell petition will also be withdrawn. . . The Tairua, Broken Hills Company has declared a dividend of 6d. ' . FEILDING, this day. A six-roomed house, occupied by John Watson, and owned by L. F. Browne, was totally destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this lnoming. The insurance on the building was £200 m the Oomm&reial Union, and on tlve furniture £100 'in the Roytd Exchange, and £37 m the National;' Nothing was saved. HAWERA, this day. At a meeting of the Executive of the National Dairy Association, Mr C. R.. BeaitUe resigned the position of secretary, which was accepted with great regret, WANGANUI, this day; A well-known farmer at Wanganui, named William Ritchie, and liis wjfe bad a miraculous escape- from death '. this morning. .While driving into town down St. John's Hill, the occupants either didj not see or hear the whistle of an approaching train, and at the crossing it collided with the vehicle. The horse had liis two front legs broken and the trap smashed m two, the occupants escaping with scarcely a scratch. , WELLINGTON, this day The Post understands 'that 'in order to prevent a recurrence of the outbreak of anthrax m Southland the Govenunnet will erect a plant at the Bluff for sterilising imported bones. '; ■;" '.