INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11146, 9 December 1907, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND^ this day. In the Supreme CoUrt^ Jklr Justice Denniston sentenced Frederick William Joseph Jones, aged 20, guilty of forging a' - s telegraphic . : money order for .£3, to six months', imprisonment. The crime was deliberate and carefully planned. MASTERTON, this day. A coal expert, Mr G. H. Perry, visited the. Mauriceviilo coal deposits, .[ R on Saturday. He considers the prospect highly encouraging. Samples obtained of the best coal m the new -seam, he considers <ec|ual to Coalbrookdale. He is | satisfied, little difficulty vftifbe experienced jn finding the necessary capital todcyelop the resources. The coal hitherto obtained, and generally considered pf indifferent quality apd;*^^ value, the expert considers equal, if. not superior, to Mokau coal. WELLINGTON, this, day; ,,' Mr Amelius: Smith has been 'appointed secretary of the Publio Service Superannuation Board, which is /to 'be set 1 -up', to admiiiister the - superannuation fund. A young .man, Frederick/ Cooper, has been arrested at Aubklarid on a charge of being connected with'!- the, -recent burglaries here.j Information, leading . to his airesfc was sent' frem Wellington. ■' The Gear Company's "balance-sheet shows that it is proposed- to paya dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, and carry forward £9654. So far as. can /be ascertained all the immigrants who arrived by. the s.s. lonic last week, over 600, have obtained employment. There is a good demand for farm hands. "- -. . • . The new legislation affecting hotelkeepers contained m the Shops and Offices Amendment Act last session is being brought into operation. The Labor Department is issuing circulars to all hotelkeepers, drawirig their attention to the fact that each of their. employes must now receive' a half -holiday on one day of the week. : Another; sebtion provides that shop keepers who sell tobacco, cigarettes; etc., must>observe the same closing hours as' ordinary tobacconists, and they are being furnished with a printed notice to that effect, to be hung up m. the shop for general information. CHRISTCHUROH, this day. The heavy thunderstormi' yesterday will have a beneficial effect on the country. Reports are tliat for about an hour and a half rain fell heavily. 'It will greatly help the salvation of crops and feed, and relieve the situation, which was becoming alarming. OAMARU, this day. At the Magistrate's Court this morning Mr Turton, S.M., fined David Boland, exlicensee of the Papakaio,. hotel, closed since no-license. £20 and costs for keeping .liquor for sale within a no-license; area^ ' i ■