INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

tP.er Press. Association.! AUCKLAND, this, da.y. Harry R,itchi© f Urquhart, a Quaker-, charged with causing, the,. -publication • of a seditious pamphlet, entitled -."Men and Marbles," was sentenced/ to eleven* months' , imprisonment without hard . laboi*. The Magistrate said that it was a case for internment, not punishment, but limprisonment was the bjuly internj.ment m his power. Edwin Sayes, I printer, who admitted publishing the pamphlet, was fined £2s. , J Douglas Surtees, aged four years, died im the hospital as the result, of injuries sustained by a tram car running over his leg, which was practically severed from the foot.

j WANGANUI, this da-y. sj The Borough Council has accepted the tender of Graham .and Son,. Christ* church, . for the erection bf tlie Sargeant * art gallery, fbr £13,800. The designs weire selected by open competition,Tl^ere were 35 competitors, including some from . Australia, Edmund = . Ans--1 combe, of Dunedin, being, successful.. : ! WE^LI^iGTON, Tliis, day. . . Mr R. Wilapn, o% Reef ton*, Managing-. Director of the Keep>-itrdark.y and y othai West Coast. '.mining, companies,. Ls visit* | ing Wellington with,. Mr. . J. . B. ; . Laiuen. 'sou, president of the Canterbury. Industrial Association, the. object, it is* ! understood, being to submit an oifer tc> i tho Cabinet on behalf of New Zealand ' C€^pitalists to purchase the , 'State ooai ' Viine at Runanga. A conferencp ha.been arranged with the Government, ll : is ■understood' that satisfactory* Hnaucia j arrangements can be made if the Government agrees, and there is plenty ul labor available to carry on the industry, | ,GRE\yMiCvUTH, this, day.,. ; I Both yStats : mines .resumed' w'oi'^ toda.y after a. three days' sti-ike aa a p.l<--I test* agaiiist tbe, alteration of? worfimen'j tickets. At 1 ar meeting of miitsrs oi; Saiturd^y; a telegram was received f i*otr; " Sir, Jkmes .-Allen I. said, to be iri the nature of' an. ultimatum.' It* i^ 'generally conceded : that the strike resulted, m a win -fcir the railways.. |. ? DUNEDIN, this day. . I When William Alfred Coleman, ? miner from Rqnanga,; was brbii^ht up for sentence this morning- for iycitihg s seditious strike at Fairfield, ,. Mr Mac Gregor, Clown. solicitor, asked that sentence ■ be adjbiirhed'i having been ;sc instlnioted by* the - Government' m pur suaiice 'of: the settlement of : the* strike terms with the'' miuers. He disclaimec any • interference * with the;-, magiiteria' functions. , Senterioe' wasV adjourned foi four weeks,--adcM«ed' being- rrfeaeed m his . own ' recognisances^-' ..<■■•