New Zealand Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11698, 13 December 1899, Page 3

New Zealand Telegrams.

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. • Arc iLAhE, December 12. John Cullicanr, who attempted to commit Enicide at Hamilton, wai committed for trial. lie bal £40 on Lim when anested. lie receives £140 per annum from Home, and he sijs the meney is a enhance to him. GEAR MEAT COMPANY. Wzllisgton, December 12. The Gear Meat Praerving Company has a balance available for appropriation of £8348 7s, which the directors recommend should be apportioned as follows : — In payment of a dividend on the paid-up capital of the company (of which an interim dividend at the rate of ten per cent, for the half-year has alreadj been paid), £4G 0 ; to be cirmd forward to next yeai'a account, £3748 7?. IHE LATE MR FIELD'S FUNERAL. Thefuneial of Mr H. A. Field, Jate member for Ofak', took place at Otai» barga, near Waikanae, this afternoon, and was largely attended, atnoDget those pre3cnt being the Premier. Before his death, Mr Field expressed a wibb that his brother should contest the &eat, and the Election Committee met to-day and asked him to stand Thi3 be consented to do, and, the Premier having accepted him, Mr W. 11. Field will bo the Goveincntnt candidate. ARRIVALS A3SD DEPARTI'BES. Weujugton. December 13. Last month the a rivals in the colony numbered 2303, and the departures 798. ARBITRATION COURT. CiiBiSTCHURcn, December 12 The Arbitration Court this morning gave judgment on the legal points argued on (he previous day in ihe grocere' dispute. The employers had objected that ihe grocers' assistants, not being persons engaged in an industry within the meanirg pt the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, could not register as an Industrial Union ; that the certificate of registration wap, therefore, null and void; lljat if (lie certificate was not null and void it did uob confer upon a member of the Union tho right to have on award between thtm nrd oroplojerF; and that if (he employers were retail grocers merely, <md not ci.gaged in manufacturirg or lui'ness of an industrial character within tho meaning of the Act, thertforo they were not mlj j et to its provisions The President said ho did not think that, accoroiog to the popular aensa in which the words "industrial matters" were u^ed, they could be understood as including the trades of retail tradfri, and he did not think that tho di-pn o between the grocers and the a9ais'ant-» would, in 'popular language, be referred to ttß an "industrial ' dispute. lie pointed out that shops were not named in section 27 of tha Act, giving power of inspection, and said it was improbable Hint if it had been intended to bring thopkeepc-rs and shops within the Act all reference to (-hops would haw becu omitted from that Ejection. In bin opinion, it had been made out iv tho present ca«o that tho persons sought to bo affected oamo within tha jurisdiction of the Court. It was, bowover, sti I opon to the Union to rnovn thn Supreme Court for a rnandamu3 to ths Arbitration Cout to hear tho diapute. Tho remainder of tho day was occupied in hearing the evidence iv the builders' dispute, tho Court reserving ito decision.