INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14900, 2 May 1919, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, list night. At the Police Court to-day. William Morsley, for bookmaking at the Ellers* lie races, was fined £30. Sydney Day, for making bets at the meeting, was fined £20. ■ Y v • AUCKLAND, this day. The Union YOo.'sYKamo arrived at Onehunga from Greymouth with a mild case of influenza on board, and the steamer was quarantined. The patient' has been isolated. Two Chinese coolies were fined £10 each for evading the poll tax and education test. They stated they paid a Caiinaman in, Sjliva £90 teafeh to arrange for their entry into New Zealand. WELLINGTON, last night. "During ; shunting operations' on the railway wharf to-night, an engine ran over a man, 'seyermg^ one leg and mangling the other. He was* removed to the hospital, where he died soon after admission. At a late; hour the victim was, ..stall unidentified, Vbut it is believed he was' from the s.s.V Tainui. WELLINGTON, t£ss day. Donaftd Rennie, able seaman of the Tainui, injured by the shunuibg of aai engine, at the railway (wharf last night, died two hours later. The driver saw something lying on the track,' but was unable to stop in time. Thei "inan was terribly injured, GHRISTCHURCH, fiis day. ", -,At the Conciliation! Ooun<p, in the taxi-drivers' dispute, h. • settlement waa arrived at, wages to b'e £3 10s, an increase of, 12s 6d on -the present rate. The hours remain as &t preseiit, 60 for a fchprt week' and; 70 .for a*' long week, or ien.hoursiper dayj overtime, at Is 6d per hour, instead of YLs 2d, tjpe present award. „.,., ■ $ •'-:, \ ; DpNEDIN,' last night. It is understood' that some ' forged Bank of New Zealand 10s tfotes have been circulated in . Dunedin. yy , While. a young; man, Arthur! Leo Ashton, sentenced to' 'two years'' reformative treatment, was being . taken to IhvercargilL he leapt from a carriage near Edendale and escaped Yinto the bush. ' He has not been recaptured. DUNEDIN, this day. Asked whether they, had! " anything definite regarding 'the return of the political leaders, Sir James Allen said there was nothing definite, except what might be inferred from the i Vfact that Parliament, would Yhe summoned ' a month later than usual, nainely in July. Thieves entered the bouser of the manager of the Princess Theatre last night; . They took the theatre kajpa from his, clothes, got into the theatre, opened the safe, and extracted JB4B.