INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10956, 26 April 1907, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, tliis day. A question was raised at the first meeting of the new City Council as to tlie | legalitv of the election of Messrs Court and Casey, who were absent from the colony. It was explained that a mah was a councillor from tlie date of his election, but could not occupy his seat until his declaration. If they made absence from lour consecutive meetings without leave of absence it would disqualify the absent councillors, but no doubt application would be made for leave of absence. it would rest with the Council to decide wliat course should be followed. The right of the public to free admission to the city parks was raised at a City Council meeting on a letter from a « resident, who stated that his son and daughter had been summoned for climbing a fence in Victoria Park when the Bosses I o' th' Barn Band performed. The Mayor •stated that when the Besses' manager ap- ' plied for the use of the Park t!ie:e w.is not time to give legul notice. The manuv,er consented to take the risk and paid iJio for tlie use of the Park. This was a police prosecution. The Council agreed Hr.it Alic. Town- Clerk attend the Court and explain that the Council did not wish any penalty inflicted. Li connection with the Town Hall p'ans a letter was received at the Council meeting from A, H. Byron, of Wellington, applying for expenses for getting out plans and competitive designs according to tho conditions in lhe Council's pamphlet. No plan was to exceed £60,000, and no plan was to be noticed if the contract exceeded the sum mentioned. He got out his plans to suit tliat price, and obtained a tender from the best firm in New Zealand. The Council had taken a plan that would cost £105,868, leaving itself open for expenses for all plans not exceeding j the sum of £60,000. If his expenses) (£65) were not paid he would take legal action. The Mayor moved that the application be declined. There was, ho said, no justification for it. The motion was carried.

One of the principal dealers of oysters, interviewed, stated tliat Parliament would be caked to sanction a scheme under wliich the Marine Department would control the packing and sale of oysters at Auckland. He stated he agreed with the general principle, as something must be done for the preservation of the oysters. He feared, however, when the Government entered into the oyster business it would encounter difficulties as to whether to hire fishermen's boats, or pay them by the suck, and a man would have to be appointed to superintend the _packing. In the Police Court to-day six^persons were charged "with climbing a fence at Victoria Park on the occasion of the Besses o' tire Barn Band performance, They were discharged with a caution on payme'ut of costs. Tin Hon. Mr McGowan arrived in Auckland to-day, and ' proceeded to the Thames. ..■■■".'

;' WANGANUI: this day. Advices received here from England (by the last mail state tliat the Northern Uiv'nn Rugby clubs have ; received a communication suggesting tliat 1 New Zealand should send a team Home next year to play clubs under the Northern Union rules. The leading clubs have been asked what support can be oromised. The London Telegraph commenting, stales that ■ the replies have not yet been sent, but the leading clubs favor the project, and it is regarded as certain that a New Zealand team will visit England next- season. \.,r ■ WELLI-N-rxoiN, this day. The steamer Inveran, which went ashore on Wednesday night, was floated off early this morning. She is believed to have sustained little or no damage. James Nosworthy, charged with selling at Wanganui an instrument which lie believed was to be used for illegal purposes, was sentehced !by Mr Justice Chapman to-day to two years' imprisonment* John Riley, with several aliases,, charged with breaking and entering, was' also sentenced to two years' imprisonment. In the. case of King v. Findlay, who •was convicted | of breaking and entering the house of * Rennie^ the -schoolmaster found murdered at Papakaio, near Oamaru, and sentenced to five years and declared to be an habitual criminal, the Appeal Court held that the accumulation of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner was sufficient to warrant the jury in coming to the conclusion thai he. was guilty. .Tile verdict was a proper one. The Court refused the order for a new. trial, and ordered the sentence to stand. The New Zealand branch of Alcock and Company, billiard-table manufacturers, of Australia, liave caused a writ to be issued against tlie general manager of the Internal ional Exhibition, claiming £1(369 dam. ages for the alleged wrongful detention of the* Company's billiard exhibit. The steamer Liveran was towed off at a quarte.' to six this morning and berth-* cd at tne wharf. She .is not making water, but: the extent of the damage will not be known until ii diver goes down later in the day. : WESTPORT this day. (Obituary : Mr Alfred Sephen, who was the first w'hite man to settle on the West Coast. Peter Gilmour, aged l7, was dommitted for trial for attempted rape on a girl 'aged 16 at Millerton. He pleaded guilty to indecent assau-t on a girl aged 1? ut the sairib place, and was committed ,to sentence. , V Mr,K.nriek» S.M.', fined a/hol,clkecpcr at Karamca £3 for selling liquor on Sunday. Two teams of cricketers (one travelling five miles! had; dinner, 'at the Jwtel, the losers of the match paying Is 6d per head for dinner. Beei"was supplied with the dinner. The Magistrate held there was a sale. The West-port Coal Co.'s new collier steamer Regulus has left Neweastle-on-Tyne for New Zealand. The French steamer Bt'. Louis is loading coal for Noumea, from which- port she came liere. ' ' Members ol the Granity Coal Miners' Union took a second ballot on the question of adopting the agreement come to by their delegates with a representative of the company, and aguin refused the agreement. The matter will now bo referred to the Arbitration Court when, next it sits at Westport, aud iil the meantime operations- will continue under the old award. OHRIUTCHURCH. this day. Edith Malzard, a married woman, who went on a drinking bout for several days and left her- infant m cluirge of a four-teen-year-old daughter, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of manslaughter in having caused tlie infant's death by neglecting, to give it proper food, aire, and attention. It is understood the . charges Io be brought against Mctntyr©' will probably cover the misappropriation of comparatively small amounts of Exhibition moneys, 'lhe investigation of Mclntyre's affairs is incomplete, but it is expected the whole business will be cleared up early next week. The s.s. Turakina is expected to reach Monte Video on April 30th. Arrangements for Mclntyre's detention there will, be completed in ample time. James Shnthers, charged with the attempted murder of Nellie Jackson on April sth, was again remanded to-day, his victim being unable to attend. ■ , . ASHBURTON, tills day. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr V. G. Day, S.M.-, James Burgees pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally selling beer, and was fined £10. TIMARU, this day. Mr James Craigie, Mayor of Timaru, was to-day elected Chairman of the Timaru Harbor Board. GORE, this day. Last night, which was boisterous and wet, Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R. for Waikouaiti; addressed 500 'people at Wyridliam on the Land Bill. The meeting was held under the auspices of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Mr H. J. Middleton, viie-president of the Southland Executive of the.. Union,' was in the' chair. Mr Mackenzie' criticised the Bill . exhaustively. He. traced land tenure of the various nations from ancient times to the present age, and deduced from the teachings this, that those .countries which divided the land into small freeholds luid been, and were, tlie most prosperous, con. tented, and happy. H e denounced "cither State or individual landlordism. Tlie speaker had an attentive hearing, and at the close a motion was carried : tha't Mr Mackenzie be thanked for' his able and instructive address, and the meeting, affirms that any Bill devoted to subdivision of the land, wihch does not contain the option of the freehold, is not in the interests of the State us a whole, Th e motion was carried by acclamation on the . invitation of the Chairman, after he had asked .and waited for an amendment. DUNEDIN. this day. The trouble between the Corporation and the Taieri County Council having been -adjusted, the permanent switching on of the power from Waipori will take place, on Monday. Since. Monday afternoon 5000 people have inspected the English swoatcd'goods at the Town Hall. *

As an outcome of a recent fatal accident in a- city fouftdry, through the breaking, of im 'emery wheel, steps are being taken by the inspecting Machinery De-paY-tmeiit by -wliich these wheels,' aiid also circular saws, will be safely guarded. (Special to Herald.) ; . Speaking last night at Wyndham (which is in the Minister of land's electorate), Mr T. Mackenzie expressed the opinion thafc the substitution of a graduated land tax for the limitation clauses would not have tlie same results if there were large estates, because a graduated land tax, unless terribly high, would not override the sentiment that many of the large proprietors had for their property, especially as they were profitable just now. If members were unhampered in giving full expression to their views, there was a vast majority in Parliament hi favor of the optional principle. He urged those who were fa miliar, with, the country and its requirements, aud who favored the optional tenure, to unite and urge the single-tax-ing, land nationalising, and unearned iucrenienters to form another party, thus showing their whole united strength in the HOU6C. If this were done it Mould be found a minority hud been ruling, which, for years had bested Parliament and the eoutnry on these questions. If this could not be done, then .an 'appeal to the country should be made.