INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12879, 27 September 1912, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

' .-. (Pair Pnesa Association.) , •/i'^''..':^.'> I AtIGKLANiDi this-a^yi Mr Kettle, S.M., gave his. decision 'in ithe charges against three milkman; -fo>: employing boys under the awar£ ,U?atejHe. said the custom >of employing,, boys to assist milkmen had been a { - customi ;of long standing, and po^dbly'i3e|^.n4iants thought they were within? Jftei? legal rights. Breaches di award 'Were Recorded, no fines being imposed:' -- \ , To-day !s sharemarket business,:;* Sylvia, .Is sd : ;, Waiptah 5 , : ls I'Odj Waitaia, llr^dj WainVP&eroa, ( Ms. 6d ; Union 'Pant**! -Australia, £Sy 10s j rforfcliern l&'e&h, 15s 4a. l ; : _ -.— ■/ ■ NAPIER, this.;da;y,: : t The libel action, Gordon y. NewiZea-. land ;" Times,, was continued m S^3i& SSi- k ;.preme ''Court, yesterday afternoon arid) •Jevening. After/ the dinner, , adjournment •counsel . for plaintiff- "withdrew : frpm the* case. TJ» jplairitifi . is "now con<luc%ig : the case' himself ," The evidence for jilain,tjiff -was . cbhcludecl. Sir John jFindlay submitted grounds for a'lioii. suit,. The J'^ry decided .to hear the evidence for lefence. Tins was not concluded, when the .Court rose at 10.40 last night. • : , , WELLINGTON, this day. • The Parliamentary C^nimittee '"to enquiry L^to the petition presented 'by Mr Joshua JbneS. m Vrefotence to his claims respecting JVl^kauVlatidsmet. to-day. Prjejiminary^busjness only 'was transacted.' Mr Mender was 'appointed chairman. v ._' . ; ... •Mr Justice-' Chapman, to-day granted an. appjiitia^qn ;fbr ya judge's: certificate under the Legislature 4c't, 4908, that the db jects . .0$ the Macartlryv Trust Bill are uhoblalahabie exbepji, , by' legislation. It is proposed. in the Bill; to incorporate the Governor^ Premier, \ 'Rpir\aii . Catholic Archbishop, and Mayor 'of Welli ngton under, the v name of a board of governors. The, Bill 'also -makes provision 'fpr successors of the trustees, and for the aps6iijtrhent bi, one, or more advisory committees. , •CHRISTCHURCH, this day. .Strikers "at. Lake 'Coleridge declare that the official report read by t/he Minister of "Public Works is incorrect ;'in several particulars.. "They ; dehy' that they objected.' to an , ' engine driver,, who jvas a certificate man. , The secretary of the loqal union says that the cause rf the trouble is the engine which. . hoists the cage fin the. shaft, ..arid., whidh' is .not powerful endng'ii for the work. .;.. . 3>TJtfEI)IN, this day. . At a meeting of managers Q^'.the Techmcal School, tenders |or the. erection of a j new school" ; de^lt yffih m committee. The i lowest tender, £30,059, was sent m by W. McLellair, but that, furnished by J. E. .White, .£30,999, ' was accepted. Some feeling ihas/ been aroused over, :the' decision, and a telegram, has beeii sent ".'to [Mi,., ,G. M. Thomson, M.P., suggesting that the .Gpyernment ishould. witKhpld the siibsidy iPjaniling an tayestigafciom ■;... It : is stated , that the Mayor of one suburban . borough* which vqtejd . £25 .to. the land for the, erection of the new fyuilding.^ intends to v raise; objection vto paying the money over. Owing, /to the ; pihnjj of cargoes betw^^^J^doij.^&nrd. Liverpool during the .industrial strife the Jpillagimr. of oversea gpbdsshaß ;. bejjn , ej^eesfilve. -. One Dunedin J|i;m 1^ t other da,y -got a b;6x oonßigned ifyp^,seßj^arty, via.^onddn,;.but.discovered, instead of jfiJO of. ibindc.ijlar.fl, they had . got ,v. fcegJe p% #traw. ?. he side of.^the \hpx >had rbeen tajten, off, h}l the goqds^ stolen, -anoU the oaße neatly repacked. .... >.-.;• (•■ „',.:..' .-