INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 30 July 1907, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

■:■-.■■'■ 1-".-- »,' - .':-. Ca\ (Per Press Association.) MATAROA. this day. ■ K \ Jas. . Peacock, son of Mr. * Peacock, builder, of Maingaweka, was killed *at Ohakuoie by the capsizing of. a dray. ' WANGANUI. tliis day. A private cable received from Sydney this morning states that Charles Siddells, late licensee of the Federal hotel, Wanganui, died on the s.s. Wimmera, en route, withi other Wanganui excursionists* to witness the Webb-Towns sculling championship. Deceased was a 'brother of Detective Siddells, of this town. He leaves . a wife and family. ■'*'■ FEILDING, tlus day. A complimentary dinner was tendered last night to Mr E. A. Barton, **yho has just resigned has position as manager of _ the Bank of Australasia here, after hold- ' • ing the position for. twenty years, lhe presentation was a roller-top desk and silver salver. Mx E. Goodbehere presided. Customers of the 'bank and leading citizens were present, and complimentary speeches were made by the chairman, ex- .. , ■= ' Mayor Haggitt, and others, referring to •>: '-;;. the happy relations that had always ex?' '„•' '.-■ isted between Mr Barton and the bank -•*'*'< customers. Iri reply Mr Barton said his position hod been pleasant; owing. to the financial stability of. ihe, customers and . the district. He had no intention to leave the district, but was going into business here. Other^ speeches referred to the pro* * gress and prosperity of Feilding district. NAPIER, tliis day. Information is to hand that the Government have abandoned the compulsory acquirement of the Teohu estate, the property of Mr Matthews. • CARTERTON, this day. Mr E. L. Wakelin, one of the oldest pioneens of the Wairarapa, died this morning, aged 77. He had been fifty years a"* settler of the Wairarapa. WELLINGTON, this day. Continuing the argument for respondent m thei appeal case, Keddie v. Miliar, Mr . Raymond contended that though the fine - inflicted was «i its inception a penalty, m its enforcement it w*is by section 101 o£ tho Arbitration Act treated merely as a civil debt, and imprisonment for its non-payment had 'been abolished by the Act of 1874. If the fine was still maintained as a penalty it was a* penalty recoverable only -by action for debt, and therefore the remedy of a. writ of attachment, which was devised really as a remedy for contempt of Court, wa6 not available. Judgment was reserved m the appeal case affecting- the fines inflicted by the 'Arbitration Court' on strikers. - . CHRISTCHURCHj tliis day. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College last night accepted the bequest of Sir John Hall of five hundred volumes, for bhe .library. Sir John also bequeathed liis knighthood star and badge to the Museum; failing acceptance, it is to go to Ids eldest son. The Board,* considering it a matter more for the Hall family than the. public, declined the bequest m favor of the eldest son. Much-needed irain is falling. DUNEDU?, this day. At the inquest on William Brown, buried by a fall of earth, at the site of the Presbyterian College, North-East Valley, on the 2tsh inst., a verdict of accidental death' was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. --■:■■■■■ ■■ yy^<;jyy:.:. . .-....^y. ■„■.... -_' ....'-