INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10964, 6 May 1907, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

7 (l*er PfJ&.& -Vwochrtlon.)

* 'AUCKLAND, this day. ■__ A*.hous^ m Argyle street, Ponsonbyr owned by Miss W. H. Leys, was partly destroyed I by fire on Saturday" night. The biuldjing was tenanted 'by^-M'artin Poulson, confectioner. and'VHenry Mc ; Donald, hoot; impoort.r. .The latter**,, stock- was! much damaged by wat^r.. It vwi- insured for £300 m tile > Standard. Poulson lost everything, but his loss was oovered', Iby, insurance." Mrs B-Mjey, Poulson's: hc__ekeeper* and three 'jroling children escaped m their night dresses through an upstairs 'window, being assisted from the verandah. TTie;bu|k_ng 'owned: *by Miss' Mabel " Leys was j' tenanted by Martin Ooulson, '.. wm insured for £600 m the Pliceni-. Moodonald was insured for £250 m the Standard. "'.'.,...- --, Arising [put of the tramway trouble in' 'Auckland last November, when the service was j suspended-, for ; several hours, Sydnfey •■• IMiffiael* --'F-ar-elly, tramway mo tor man t - and Edward E. Fl.tcher, "cortductoru* were charged before the Arbitration Couit to-day. with having trfken part m a movement intended to produce a ■*.-.^trike jjr lock-out. . They- pteMed guilty, "fhe representative of the I "_n- ** specter of Awards ij-id * the movement was not -iipported by tKe'Uriid^ Tnei*e were 30 mot<jrmen and 35 conductors, who struck work. Counsel for respondents, m asking for mitigation of the penalty, jJßaid the men had grievances and the Company acted m a reprehensible manner, though trouble might have been avd^ted by the exercise of tact. The Coitrt reserved its decision. .

As the result of their interview with the Minister of Marin., the oyster pickerare now taking out licenses. The Customs Department are exercising special care to ensure that the b6nt- licensed are weir equipped and seaworthy. The Arbitration* Court adopted the agreement between the Bookbinders', Paper Ruliers', and Cutters' Union apd the employers^ It provides for a week of 48 hours, competent journeymen rulers and binders to get £3 a week, first cutters "655, second cutters 50s, third Cutters 37« 6d, other cutters 30s. Any cutter taken off guillotine [work to do journeymen binders* work gets £3 per week for the time so occupied. | Ca&ual labor is to bo paid 1b 4£d per hjbur,* bvertime'time and a quarter, with double tiihe on "Sundays, Christmas Day. Good Friday, arid 'time and a half on fiV. annual holidays. Apprentices to get 7s *6d a week 'the first year, 10s M the second year, lis the third, 20a th. fourth, 2Ss the fifth, 30s the sixth year/ The Presij-ent of JJie. Court, suggested io the partieis to the Auckland --.audit^-.' men's dispute; that m vifw of the publicdition of thi Gisborne 'award, an Bgreeflietit might be pranged. It; was state* tlie employes would consider 1 the Gisborn^ award this evening. Mr Butt, riepresennnig the Butchers' Pnoon, asked for the bUtttheW award* tefminating m June, 1909,, t^b* annulled; with a view to bringito 'it ij. f ine with the southern awards, lite -Pi^l sident rerilied tliat the Court could 'not go into tlje matter. If it had ma_e the, award Avithout jurisdiction tl„ reWd£ was for one of the-parties to apply to t)» Supreme Court for a writ of pronibiti6n. Mr Bust Withdrew liis application. "The Minister- for Marine having reviewed the evidence taken (ih the pteliMnary enquiries into the harbor collißibns between the steamers Kestrel aWd Boforhaliana', and between the steamer Kanieri and the ketch Dawn, hn» deoided tliat magisterial inquiries shall be held. The steamer Victoria experienced stormy weather on her voyage from *«Sy(lney. So.ne slight damage Avas sustained 'on deck.

'""I! WELLINGTON, thi. day;'' Dr McArthur, _.M., to-day delivered "a reserved judgment m a case m wldch Thos. McKinnon, manager of New Zealand Truth newspaper, was charged with having __|d sundry copies of the paper, part of the contents of which was of an. indecent, immoral, and obscene nntur^. The Magistrate held that as McKinnon was absent from Wellington at the time ' of the publication, and had no reasonable opportunity of knowing the contents of • the article, the information should be dismissed.

The New Zealand Timeß states that the railway employes of the colony who voluntarily started a subscription m aid of a memorial to Mr Seddon nave collected v £300 from the employes m the service. *.' ■'

The Appeal Court granted leave to appeal to tlt-p Privy Council m, tho case of the Publio IVustee versus Commissioner of Stamps; In* this case the Court had*-*; decided thiit a bequest for the purpose of building tin Anglican Cathedral was not exempt from duty. The Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Baptist ministers of Feilding* have forwarded -a. united protest to the Minister of Defence against the new system of Government parades on Sunday, which they characterise as a Violation of "the statute law and secularising the. Sabbath, r In the Case of Lever Bros. v. Newton Bros the Appeal Court allowed the appeal with costs on the lower Beale. Respondents were soap makers, and 'had applied' for registration of the trademark ■-Rising Sun" m tonneetiou. With! their article. A Appellants • were also soap makers of Sunlight soap, and objected, but the Registrar had allowed registration and on appeal to the Supreme Court the Chief Justice affirmed the decision. The judgttient of the Appeal Court reversed the latter's decision, Mr Justice, Chapman stating iv his judgment that he concurred with his brother judges af* ter great hesitation, A. L. Eiby, a young man, committed suicide Avith a revolver at Barrett's hotel this morning. He was cashier m the local office of the New Zealand Shipping *_.mbany and was transferred here five or six months ago. His father is manager. oi a flour mill. Deceased left his office on Saturday afternoon and seemed normal then.

■ : ■ GREYMOUTH, this day. Mr J. B. Merritt, editor of the New Zealand Poultry Journal, avlio is leaving for Cliristchurch, at which city the journal will m future be published from, was presented by the congregation of Holy Trinity Church with a memento of the esteem m which h e i is lieldf and m recognition of the services rendered the church.The death occurred to-day of Win. Kilgour, one of the pioneers of the district, m the sixties. He had tho largest drapery establishment on the Coast. He was Avid-ly known and highly esteemed. Police Inspector Wilson left to-day .of***-^ Wanganui. his place being taken here by Inspector Black, qf Dunedin. The duck egg-laying competition m connection Avith the NeAv Zealand Poultry Journal commeuced on May Ist, twenty pens takintr part. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Two fitters at Addington Workshops, who recently refused to work overtime, into whose conduct an. inquiry wiU be held, have been dismissed the service. The case excited a good deal of interest m labor circles and was referred to at a Saciaist meeting held at the Cathedral Square last night. ASHBURTON, this day. A single man named Henry Osborne Glover, aged about 60 yeai'B, wa_ found dead aboutl midday m an empty sample room. He wag a draper by trade, and liad been tliirteen years m the employment of one firm here. His only relation known is a brothel* m Timaru. ' •INVERCARGILL, this day. \ A large and representative meeting of teachers pa&Bed a resolution expressing profound dissatisfaction Avith tne present scale of salaries, m which the average attendance is the sole determining factor. -The leading principles for an improve-d scheme were affirmed, the chief being a f-imall nuniber of grades of schools, periodic increments for length of efficient icrvice, and such adjustment as will raiwl the pay of the rank and file of the pi-I.ss'op.