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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11792, 4 March 1909, Page 4

A sum of between £3000 aud £4000 was paid out, for wages on -the railway works during tlve past few days. It is expected that £50,000 will go to the Teviot district (Otago) this, year for fruit. There are 250 horses engaged carting the fruifc to BdievaJe. : ' The Hon. J. Carroll, ! Minister for Native Affairs, ha» 'been confined to his room at the Star 1 hotel, Auckland, suffering from an attack of influenza.. Mr Carroll is now" making progress toward* recovery. . i ... ' • The acting : C3hief Pofitmasber (Mr B. B. Morris) has been advised that the rate for press messages lodged at Wakapuaka,(th9 cable station) between 11p.m. and midnight has been , reduced to 8d per 100 wordvS from to-day. A shod, sitting of the Eblice Court \vos held this mdrnihgy be/ote Mr'W. A. ■" Barton, S'.M. Ah elderly- Native, a first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s and! costs 2s, in default 24 hours' hard labor.- ■.•■■•■ .-•■'..■ • What dredging has to contend' with in Bluff haxbor was fevfidenced :by a "haul'' recently made. „ Tlvj buckets bumped against a huge boulder, which", on being brought to the sui^face, \yas. fouiidl to weigh sieven" tons.' '. : ' Tlio Union Company are in receipt of advice from Dmiedin. that the special Sounds' trip at lister is being liberally patronised. Intending, travellers ,are booking freely, and early application is necessary for" berths, as the accommodaticn will Boon be all taken ]ip. i Visiting counsel retained' in connection with,, the i preeeiit eittiiig of the'Supreme Court include Mr. J. ■ R/ Lundon, of Auckland, and the Hon. T. W. Hislbp,. bt. WeHingion. ? The latter is enSfage4' in: a civil case, and arrives on Saturday morning. ' ! The late Mr Cornelius Q'Conilell (mentioned as. having been a widower) left a ;wif^ as. well as family to mourn their loss. Mx O'Connell. had imarried a second ;tim6{ his second wife being the widow "of the late Mr Alexander Brown. : ; The , case againfd the Native named Will iflm Collins, for alleged forgery/ and Mttering, -avos x*osutned at 6 p.mi yester.da.yj: when the ovideiVc^ ?of Mr J. Warren, Clerk ;-,of the Ooofc Coninty Oouiicil, was taken, • after which accused who* pleaded ■not guilty, was committed for trial. , At a., meeting of the- cpngregation of An^dreVs Church last night, ia-> proposal, to.erectt Or^cSv ma^ee pn ihe oh,uaS?h groundl9 \yas' rejected. It was decided to puroluuso a-. gpctio;n.' in Stanley; road, and arrange a-bout the erection of the buiftling as eaily as; possible. ' ■'•■ In consequence of a couplo of cases of enteric fever developing amongst .the large gang of men. employed on thd railway construction works in the Waihuka .Vailey, stringent regulations" on .sanitation matters are being enforced. Several whares have had to ibe shifted to more healthy localities. : The pui-posed) visit of inspection of the proposed route of the Gisborne Rotorua j'ftilwuy h««, . it is underjrtood,. not be*n Abandoned $y the iioyr Minister for Public Workfi,"the. Hon; R.. : McKenzie, but nivs been postponed for a. short time on iiccpunt of iircent .ibusinesw l^uiring his return to Wellington. The resident eitgineer, Mr Arnisti'ong, has be'en' advised that the tour lute beeii.i postponed. 1 Mr F.C. W,iddop,' District Engineer for Railways, who arrived from Soutih on his usual visit of inspection, is also leiiri'ying out mi inspection df the now ' y!most\ cooipletod .extension the Willow Crossing bridge to the Waikolnt station. Thi«, wo are- informed by Mr <O. E. Armstrong, Resident Eiu gineer, will be a\-aila'ble for iopening for traffic oil. Monday, the 15tiu l inst. 1 While the Auckland unemployed Jiave been ' dancing hakaa outside the Star hotel, -the temporary abiding placed of Ij>it< Joseph Ward, and 'heaping anathema upon th« tipverpment (says l,he Clutiha JVee^ "Press),- the fai-mera of South <)tugb ftre complaining sthat they cannot §[et pyen to assist in farm work. ' High wages are. offered for "milkers and other Jiands ; biit without avail, arid generaJly Speaking the position of the man on the Jiwnd vnth.: •oo>wr to^ milk and crops to gather is exigent. f i "We are told, 1 ' said the. Hon. J. A'l .Millait, in a speech at Dunedin, "thai wo are a country, of experiments. Quite so. Aud we are in a position to ex2>eriment, .for we are ne+ tied down by the vested interests wliich exfet in older countries, and can carry -out experiments, which they could. not. The resuft of these, experiments- is tfjiat accredited representatives of Goyernriients from alt; over ' the world come, to New Zealand to study our social' legislation ; and many of these meri who- have come to consult me are so satisfied that they are going back to oxpress their satisfaction and invite their Governments to copy the laws .wjiich tin's country is so successi fully carrying out." , , The physical: department of the local Young Aden's, Christian Association's work promises to bei an important factor in the atheltics of the town. A hockey club is being forniedi and ; it is more than probable a. good football team can be got' together:' . A harriers' club is suggested .Jpr the winter nights, and there is already the "nucleus for a cricket eleven - next season. ■A' small "ch'arge --'will bb made " l f or'; entrance to these clubs' in addition to the ordinary membership fee.- An interesting feature of the association's : work will be the proppsed '^cfeihera clilbi -in connection with which. various 'competitions will be held from tim&to tiine, and talks given by ; ; local experts ■■ -in photography % « The rooms; which ,are situated over Mr Bosie's HovV, shlop> at the corner of Glads|one road arid Bright street are now approaching completion, , arid Mr -Webb, the builder, , states that he' will finish the contract by ' the end of this month. \- ■ ■ -\ '-'. .->•"■: •■..-■■f^.".-:-. ■ ■■■■ .- .i' '; ■ ■' ■. ' ; .. ■ ■ The Inspector of Factories, Mr W. J. Culver, sued 'the Shannon Meat i ,Cony pany^ for breaches . pj^ tha awiird in : not paying proper' wagesi Two employes, Ariristix>ng and Mnftin, were also charged with, accepting less than the statutory wages,, and bpth staged > that they were getting full wages, vexcept that- they were neither of them taking a meat allowance. They were both single men, and:_thdugj|Ti Mr Gul vec* had 'iinpresfied on tnem the faibt tliat tliey :^irei>e,i entitled tovth'&'nj^at, tftey^had noivse fo^ it. -Culver cmv tended that the meat was part of the wagssj ',:, and tliat th,e ; employer, should be competed 'to giye the >"in^at. and the eniployißS to take it. His Worship : s^id apparently the employes 1 had committed a .technical broach,, though it absurd to force them to'tnke the men 1. if .it wn« useless to ' them. ' 'The case ..' against the employer was dismißsotl, and against euth employe a. conviction was entered, but no fine enforced.

The sum of £2000 has lately been spent in strengthening the eastern mole at Timaru. The niole has given great satisfaction, ensuring as it does? smooth water in the harbor, no matter how rough the weather may be outside. '< Upwards of 300 turkeys are to be. seen m Mr M' Lay's form, near Dunbjtck. Mr M'Lay is well known tliroughout Otago us n breeder of bronsse turkeys (says the Palmerston Times), and the whole flock s pure-bred. TMs • season's brood con* dsts of 200 birds. ' l*he revaluation of the Ashburtoii borough shows an increase of about £2000 as compared with the - figures of last year. The total value this year is given as £30,052, and that of last year £28,128. With als 9d rate the increase represents about* £175 additional revenue for the Borougii Council. . "Don't ever try to get into Parliament," said Mr Lethbridge, ex. M.P., speaking at a "social" at Kimbolten in hia honor. For a month before the elections you have to go about speaking the same beastly; rot -night after nijrht. It's fairly sickening. That's one of the reasons "why I'm glad, to be out of politics." At Stratford 1 District Court a "debtor admitted that on his way to file he had paid £4 As for a <msv, r .suit of^ clotliesj which he wore that day. Has Honor t You are unique. I never before met a bankrupt Who purchased and- put oil % new suit the day' he. tiled. [Debtors'; usually were supposed to do thfe^ sott of thingin^ sackcloth, and 1 ashes. ' ' :'_,■ The Timaru Harbor Board is finding it an expensive business to keep, its new dredge going. The boat has just iJeeji overhauled at a cost of between £13OQ and £1400, the repairs including ijijß strengthening of the hull. _ The Board considers, howeveiy thaV it U gottihjg value for its money. , '",, ;-. ; 1 The Wellington Equitable Butilijihg Sctf ciety's recent increase of capital > by ibid issue of 1000 shares of £10, called flpitt £5, has met with a ready acceptance oji the part of" shareholders. The shares were issued at a premium of £2 10s £o them, the premium to be" carried to the reserve fund, which at' the -last balance stood at £50,000. The whofe ol the' new shares have' been tSflcein up.;; ' A novel clause appears in Uke ; wilJ of the late Mr George Badham, a London solicitor and ; director of several cifcy computries. He left estate of th« gross value of £65,745, and after making be? quests to relatives and 1 servants^ inserted a clause taking over to his «sttfte thfc burden of any losses which clienta for whom h* : has made investments may suffer. If the rosidue of estate left for the purpose should prove insufficient, .preference is to be .given to those clients #who, in the opinion' (*£ the trustees, wouldsuffer most by their losseei ■ >'- .•.""'• \ According to the opinion expressed 'ill t well-informed shipping circles, the repairs to Mie Uliittarba will run) to close upon £8000 befon-e, ishe 'is Te'ad^ for sfea again.- It is said tliat there a r»vtft> plates in the Dominion suitable lot' tephtaing those which are damaged, and -it is exceedingly doubtful- if there ar&any irt the Cbmmonvrealth: According to present prospects, it- is just possible, thht an extra straik* will have tp be "put in to utilise the plates >yhioh are available, 'but as the dlanlage is' alt under ( water, difference in width will riot be* ■ ■ ;, Kef erring, to the resolution passed by the Napier Chamber of Commerce asking the co-operation of other, interested bodies irt. calling on the (jroveftttnsnt t° ask Parliament to authorise; the'/, coii- , struetion of a railway connecting Poverty Bay with the WelHngtqn^api^r railway system, and failing thai, to pass an Act similar to^the Railway Construe-, tiori and -Land Act of 18011 and make a grant to the 'proposed company' of Crown lands ; lying between papier and Gisborne, the secretary {' Mr',o l.'^Douglas) has written to the Hastings jkns ough Council inviting it:' torsend delegates to a conference in the Napier ' Chamber of Commerce, to bo held on Friday, March 12. ■_•'> "' . ; . ' In an equity suit in Sydney . concern- „ ing the will of Sia* Peter. Nicoi ,;,Busaetl, formerly of : Sydney, who nJade >}ai:ge bequests to the -Sydney. t|JLi4^f^*tiji.y> an inciic|eri.t was related of bow, »ii % Petpr on one occasion dealt with workers who , threatened to go on strike. He had an iron founday business in. Sydney. . He refused compliance- with .certain, demands, and the men announced their determination to cease work. "If you „go on strike," said Sir Pe(er, "I'll shtili. these works; arid never open them again. '* The hands went "out. the' gates were dosed, '-and never more was; the, clang of steel hcardr inside them. Sir l*eter RwsselV went to England, and: lived there until his death. ' / * ; :'