INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11129, 31 July 1907, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. Alfred Muchelly, who had been employed by, Wingate and Company, merchants, of Auckland, was arrested to-day on a charge of omlbezzling £15 5s sd. A number of other charges are pending. It. is. alleged that the total defalcations run into some hundreds of pounds. * * At the Police Court Alfred Muchelly, charged with having stolen and fraudulently converted to his own use £15 5s 6d and £10 4s Bd, the moneys of Wingate .Co., was remanded till Tuesday. Accused came from Australia about thirteen years ago. He left employment with Wingate and Co. three months ago, the reason being entirely unconnected with the charges now preferred against him. NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The programme has been issued for the New Zealand championship tennis tournament, to be held at New Plymouth at the end of December. For the first time there are. no handicap events, but the Taranaki provincial tournament will be held immediately afterwards. Wilding and Parker have promised to attend, and efforts are being made to secure Brooks and Miss Sutton the African lady champion, and. other first-class players. . PALMERSTON N r , this day. A. H. Young, who wad' yesterday fined £7 9s 6dS for aiding and abetting opium smoking, refused to pay the fine, and was taken to Wanganui to serve the six months' sentence. WELLINGTON,, tliis day. At the Agricultural Conference to-day the. committee appointed yesterday to deal with the question of fires, recommended that the Government should be requested to bring in a Bill to prevent the careless use of fire in rural districts. Mr Kirk, Government biologist, gave a technical; talk on diseases of : turnips, cabbages, and potatoes, with progress reports on experiments that are being conducted throughout the colony, It was. decided to ask the Government to initiate a system of-' co-operate experiments in agriculture on similar lines to those carried out by Caha-. dian experimental unions, and in order to secure the proper carrying but of 6Ucli experiments the Government be asked to have a certain number of cadets iri connection with every experimental farm un- : der Government control. ■ '

.In the case of Carruthers v. the Union Steamship Co., claim for compensation for injuries on board tlie the Arbitration Court has decided that the Legislature has power to make a law giving to a servant a right to compensation m respect to an accident happening on the : voyage of a New Zealand, snip between New Zsaland ports. It also held that the businea. of tlie Company was an employment to wliich the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act applied, and that claimant came within the de* finition of a worker. Claimant was awarded compensation at the rale of 225, 6d a week during his total or partial incapacity.* LYTTELTON, this day. At the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court this morning, Arthur Rawson and Robert McCarthy, prisoners .in Lyf telton gaol, were each sentenced to six months' additional imprisonment for attempting to es-. cape by getting over the gaol wall on June 18. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Tlie realisation of the Exhibition buildings arid other property is turning out remarkably well. Mr Muni'o tojd a representative k ; day whereas the estate was at one time expected to realise £15,000, it was now certain that the figure when all was sold would be at least £30,000. It will.pro'bably be -six months even now before the ground is entirely cleared of tlie various erections; andl the fencing and the various debris of the Exhibition. The remaining pieces of -the marble statuary by Mr Summers, of Melbourne, have been sold to the Tourist Department; for. £2000. Tliis must 'be regarded as satisfactory, seeing that the price paid by the Exhibition was about £2600, and one of the pieces lias since been x aold for £80. The statue^ are still lodged at the Christchurch. office of the Department, but it is considered probable that Rotorui* will be their final destination •••' >-

A movement is on foot in Christchurch to establish a crematorium. At a meeting last- night of the Physical Culture Society a motion was carried urging the City Council to move forward quickly in arranging a public meeting to consider the proposal. The charge of manslaughter against W. B. R. Moorhouse, in connection with the New Brighton motor cycle fatality, will be heard; on August 12 at the SuEreme Court. The case was thrown out y the Grand Jury last session, but the police were not satisfied and began afresh. '

The calendar for the next sitting of the Supreme Court on August 12 comprises fifteen charges against 14 persons^ including two cases of manslaughter, one being against Stanton (a specialist), under whose treatment a young man died, one of unnatural offence, one of perjury, one of escaping from prison, one of supplying drugs lor an illegal purpose,, one of forgery; the rest are assault arid commmon theft. Four cases, all of forgery, have been sent up for sentence from the lower Court.

The last four days have been more or less damp, and this will do a lot of good to farms and pastures. To-day there was bright sunshine.

• DUNEDIN, this day. Tlie Rugby Football Union yesterday presented Mr Colin Gilray, the Rhodes scholar, who leaves for. Oxford to-day, with an inscribed sovereign case, in recognition'of his sterling services to Club football in Dunedin. Mr Gilray is the most popular player in Otago this season. The Rhodes scholar was entertained, at a farewell dinner by the University students last evening. James Arthur, a single man, 26 years of age. has* died at North-east Valley as a result of injuries sustained on the railway duplication work's at Caversham. On March 6th while deceased was unloading sand from trucks, the engine bumped the tracks against the sleepers, and Arthur was crushed. He was taken to tlie hosEital, where he remained for two months, eing then removed to his home. An inquest will be held.

The- following resolution was passed by the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and has been forwarded to the Minister of Lands : — That when Crown tenants' leases expire or are surrendered the Government should provide in the Land Act for the tenant having the right to appoint, a valuer to act with the Government valuer'

The Arbitration Court will sit at Dunedin on September 9th to hear an application for enforcement of award®, and on September 11th to deal with compensation cases. The Court will sit at Invercargill on September 17th to lieax an ap : plication for enforcement of award and compensation cases, and returns to.Dunedin on. September 23rd to deal with industrial disputes. The infectious diseases hospital question resulted in another abortive meeting yesterday, the various local authorities not being able to agree. The principal exception taken was with reference to the apportionment of contributions as submitted by the district health officer, and several of tlie more distant of the bodies claimed to be excluded altogether. -A motion by Mr Stevenson, representing the Taieri County Council, approving of the district health officer's recommendations, was carried by a large majority. The chairman, however, pointed out that this to be effective must be unanimous, so the whole question will bo submitted to the Stipendiary Magistrate again.

(Special to Herald.) Another mining venture, the Last Chance Hydraulic Sluicing Coy., at Alexandra, has gone into voluntary liquidation.

On dit that a writ claiming heavy damages _for breach of promise will be shortly served upon a well-known city professional man. Advice received by to-day's mail states that the fine organ which is being built for the First Church by Messrs Norman and Beard, of Woolwich, is nearing completion. Tlie organ will be snipped about August 5, and should reach Dunedin at the end of September Efforts are being made by the Otago Employers'. Association to fix the closing hours for shops throughout the area of Greater Dunedin by requisition. Tlie hours will be fixed to suit the different trades. A meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon to draft the necessary requisition.