INTERPBOVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3586, 29 March 1886, Page 3

INTERPBOVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, March 27. A brigade parade of the Volunteers was held to-day, over 1000 men being present. Twenty-two corps were represented. At a meeting of the Liberal Association, tie following resolutions were passed : — (1) That eight hours should be fixed by statute as the extreme* limit of a day's work m this colonj m any occupation, and all places of business should be compelled to close at six p.m. (2) That, m. order to prevent industrial depression afld provide abundance of reproductive works at fair wage* for -.the unemployed, Government should annually issue State Bank notes for- a. sum "equal to half the estimated amount of the taxation voted by Parliament, euch notes to' be a legal tender for all debts due and taxes, and convertible at pleasure into Government bonds bearing interest. In tha case in 'which, the police were refused admission to the Shamrock Hotel, the magistrate decided that the police had the right nptonly to enter but to detect breaches of the law; Ihe offender was fined Is and °° The weekly employees m the boot trade gave a week's notice to-day to the- boot factories. ■••*_■ „ , __ - WmissQTOX, March 27. - The Postmaster-General has succeeded m arranging,.with the Union Company on behalf of itself and the Oceanic Company to make the San Brancisco service a through one permanently 1 , without transhipment at Honolulu. Hehas acted with theauthority also of the PostmastenGreneral of Mew South Wales. The original one -was dependent on the ratification of the New 'South WaUp Parliament, and it will probably he submitted to that body on an early date. It has been decided to call Parliament, together for the despatch of business on May 13th. Mr William Best, who for upwards of twenty years has occupied the position of Paymaster of the Treasury, retires at the end of the month on his pension. Mr Seed, the Secretary of Customs, who is one of the Commissioners proceeding to Fiji, leaves for Auckland, en route, to-morrow. The Chief Justice also goes to Auckland tomorrow to relieve Mr Justice Gillies for two or three weeks. At Paikakoriki, yesterday Frank Poff, who had previously been convicted for sly-grog gelling, was fined £50, or three months' imprisonment. He was also charged with assaulting Mrs Burke, who was a witness aoaingt him, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. Mrs Burke, ■who it was said hw been connected with theNenthorne tragedy m Otago, purchased the grog from Poff. A man named Thos. Smith, for playing «' under and over "on the Tenui racecourse, has been fined 50s and eostt. It turns out that*he ostensible reason for withholding the New Zealand Cross from so many deserving men was that the decoration could not be made retrospective, when Mr BaUahce came to enquire into the claims now revived, he discovered that there was no just cause whatever for refusing it on that ground. Captain Mair ' never was recommended at all until [quite lately. It is pretty certain now that at least one other man will get the cross, as his exploits were even more daring than those already recorded. .' ft : John Pollock, who was recently committed for trial at Masterton m connection with cattle stealing, is not the J. H. Pollock formerly a butcher m Wellington and lately stock agent here. The Public Works Department have received information from tbe West Coast re the strike of the unemployed. It appears that the matter was much exaggerated. A few men left, being dissatisfied with the rate of wages. Seventy-five men are still at work, and a few have been had up for drunkenness. Of 100 men originally sent, 25 have preferred staying m Wellington or Gxeymouth, or have left work. The report of the strike was a gross exaggeration. ■ _ ; Ghkibtohvroh, March 28. At a largely attended public meeting last night presided over by the Mayor of Christ'churcb, resolutions were unanimously passed condemning the dismissal of the master and matron of the Orphanage by the Charitable Aid Board; expressing the opinion that the Orphanage should be managed as a separate institution under tho Act, and requesting the Board to resign. . . ' Yesterday a six-roomed cottage ra Gloucester street, belonging to the Rev. J. Zachariah, was burned down. It was insured for £40 m the South British office. As the fire appears to have started m two places, incendiar»m is suspected. Burnspn*! March 27. The Premier having received a requisition to address the citizens of InveroargiU, will probably comply therewith.. The Hon. Mr Larnach, Professor Black and Mr Ussher, resident engineer, leave on Monday for the West Coast. They go by Way of Lake Wanaka through theHaost Pass.