INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12199, 15 July 1910, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. At the Magistrate's Court, John Fleming, builder, of Grey Lynn, was fined £10, with ±Jl Is 8d costs, for a breach of the Auckland carpenters and joiners' awoixl in that he failed to' pay two men in his employ their wages as required by 'the award. WELLINGTON, this day. The doath lias occurred at Wellington of Mrs T. >S. Duncan, June of the euly Canterbury pilgrims,: aged 82. Dce^Wd was the granddaughter of the cgnt-h Lox-d Rollo. Her husband was at** one time & prominent barrister in » nrist church, and the founder of tho firm of Duncan, Cotterill, and Stringor, -ml wa.*for a tim'c in partnership with his Honor Justice Williams and ex-Justice Mnlin. CHRISTOHURUH, this day. The Star's Kaikoura •correspondent telegraphs that the -rainfall for July to date exceeds 12 inches. It is still raining. All the rivers are- in flood, and the roads are for the most part impassable. There is a big slip on «the road to Cheviot. The rain is the heaviest ever experienced in tho district. | GRBYMOUTH,, this day. Donald Twecdie, of Blackball, and Charles Apollo, formerly strong man in McMahon's circus, met at the Town Hall last night in a catch-as-eatch-can wrestling match, best two out of three falls, for £20. Apollo showed most strength, hut Tweedies,! witli science, secured two falls in a short space of time DUNEDIN, this day. At a»4neetinp of the Temperance i.nd Morals Committee of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, a resolution was adopted calling on the Government to introduce legislation providing for the abolition of the totalisator and ho»kmakers, and for the refusal of the lost Office to carry correspondence for JVuoV sail's sweeps. A resolution vn« also adopted protesting against the exhibition of Reno fight pictures in New Zeah id. Mr John Mill, of Duncdin, now in tho Old Country., writing to a friend, s-jy* : "I met Captain Scott and offered "to coal tho Terra Nova free of charge ■if she look her departure from Port Chalmers. This offer he accented." (Rpeoi.il to Herald:) The students' procession v storihy was •idmittedlv tho best of the JUinnal i-rnrjs. the best for length, for get up, ami for points.