INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1259, 13 October 1911, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association 1. AUCKLAND, this day. On Saturday the steamer Rotorua will leave for ■■ London via. Wellington, and Skill take the third shipment of butter from Auckland province for this season, tfhis will consist of 1250 boxes, equal to $250 cwt. Compared with the shipment fpr the corresponding period last year, jsvhen the Tongariro took 11,279 boxes, line present shipment shows an increase |}f 1221 boxes, equal to about 10 per $Sent. Up to the present, including the ftotorua's sliipnient,' the export of but l ter reaches a total of 22,835 bo*<es, as, Compared with 26,195 boxes for the cor : Responding period of last year. \t Sharemarket business : Sylvia, Is 8d •.' Saxon, Is 7d ; Gulden Cross, lid; Waihi, 68s 6d, 68s 9d ; Waihi Extended, ls IOd; Grand Junction, 34s 9d ; Taupiri Coal, 21s 6d. , , NAPIER, this day. The concluding session of the Baptist Conference was held yesterday. It was mainly devoted to the consideration of the budget for the coining year, aiid the passing of votes of thanks. The Rev. Mr Dawson read a telegram, announcing that the recount of the Maine vote had . resulted in a majority of '748 against altering the constitution. The Conference decided not to express any opinion on theißible-in-Schools question. The Conference sermon M'as preached in the evening by the Rev. Alfred North. The majority of delegates left for their homes by this morning's express. WELLINGTON, this day. The Maitai, which arrived at Wellington last evening from San Francisco, via the Islands, included in her cargo 5732 cases oi apples, 700 cases of pears, 180 sacks of cocoanuts, 3662 cases of bananas, 1300 crates of onions, 180 sacks of cocoantus, 890 sacks copra, 80 tons pearl shells, and a large quantity of sundries. She has 400 tons of cargo for Australian ports. The r/etition of the Taupo Totara Timber Company was again x before a special committee of Parliament to-day. Mr H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary of Public Works, gave evidence that the Company's line was a light one, worked by special rolling stock. Tlie engine took eight hours to run 60 miles. Tlie line was not up to the standard of the Government railways, and considerable -expenditure would be necessary before it could be authorised to carry any passenger traffic. At present it was fit for light traffic at a low speed, if that would suit the requirements of the district. The refusal of the Arbitration Court to #rant an award for regulating the labor conditions of persons, employed in large- private hotels in Auckland has created a considerable amount of dissatisfaction among workers. Messrs Breen and Long, secretaries of the Dunedin and Auckland branches of the ;_;' Hotel Workers' Union respectively, are '' in Wellington arranging with Mr Carey, secretary of the local branch, for representations to be mode to members of Parliament on the subject of the Court's decision . : .-.■■....