INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14441, 30 October 1917, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

' — . — y*. . — i — .j (Per Prass Association.) ■ ■ ' t . v MARTON, this day. * Since, the Mayoral election there hqjs been- a stormy sitting nearly every timte the Council meets, with no business transacted. Last ; night's meeting, reach ed a climax m affairs, when, a previous resolution., ..appointing o*ertain councillor^ as;' JBt4b-cp-ft\mittees,V . -wasy rescinded , and" a _ resblutibP.' uiiahhhbusly cariieM appointing all the > councillors, excepting the Mayor, as a committee of the Council,' and •delegating: allvDpwevs ; and duties tto itheln. .-•' This practically means that: the <Co"Uncil ;Jias power.- -to ignore the •MayorMin'tJutnre.y.^ei'^yor; refused to /accept---.-*- motion -of -...censufe against himself for writing an unauthorised.! letter to the Ch-gop-icle, threatening >to exclude their : representative from the municipal building. A resolution -iw_s carried; ytliat. tne Council disassociates itself from tl)c Mayor's letter^to^lhe.Ghi-oniclo. . j , GREY'MOU"nH, this day. i A young, man named G. Faff- was convicted and fined £5 under the Wai' Regidajions : ioa.\ issuiug -letters . tepdii 'g to in terf ero'/Avitli, proper trading \of ove)•---.s<^a .Vessels. ' Letters Were "found 'm .tlfe possession of imio aeaoneh. who had bedh arrested andi-',-. convicted for . desertion. The ...botes were given, recommending .tHe .seamen, to .persons m .'Reefton distn'et for employiment. The notes, stated the seamen "w^e* leaving, a "runnirtg'N'snm) iPufeliclv stated ta l>e"black!'i iii ionnef tion* with * the Australian strike. Tlie .defence waaithat therje, waa'iip intfett--Mohal. -\vrohgful acti, abut 'itluvt. the letters were vgiTOh un ; ;good vfaith, tlfe seamen had "been The case of I^aCner, sentenced to ]_, month's imprisohniLaut byi -justices f 6r. boarding aaV-OVers^a^ The Magistrate reserved' 'nis decision- on the pon;t- -whether 4here ca-.-be- a second coiiv-cpQn*_pr>bb_ "sameioffencse.. , -?• I '• ■;■ '■■"■* CH^JSTCO_urR<H, this day. '<" " A4 the Magistralte?s . Court, H^hry Thpmsen andi ;Gust Thorn ,; two alien «sea> ta^ers, ; for.:; lah^ing^ without passpQi'ts^ X^ferpv.OTasred "t^vbe kopt dv custody, -till #c Vessel sailed.' ."" ' ■^'■' . .'yyy^y\-% ! Ait the Courit <Jrimiinil *sfcssions, Char|ea ; "ffenry Burrow, on nine charges -of |- indecent assaiiit, Was sentenced to nine; months' imprisonment on each, the sentences to be cumulativb. James Dwyor, -for indecent assaollt, was Sentenced to sii' mbnfchs' • im*pE_oiu^ent^