INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12393, 8 June 1904, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. WANGANUI, Juno 7. At a public meeting held at Mangamahu It was stated that the damage by flood amounted to nearly £3OOO. It was resolved that as no rate which the loc.J governing .body had power to levy would ave any ■ appreciable effect in restoring bridges and repairing roads, a deputation lay, the matter before the Minister for Public .Work? and ask the" Government ior assistance. WELLINGTON, June 7. The shipping representatives intend mak ang a protest against tho increase of Id per tou in the charges on caigo inward cr outward iirjposed by the Haibmir • Board.- I ,' It is s'id that the increased 10 venue of tire Board by' the new charges will be ; £10,000.- - A conference of sawmill owners, in Wellington, decided, in view of ibe present excess of the c*tput, to lesttict work to five 'days a week both in mill and busb. - This will be tried for a the demand does net improve the .question of working only loui days will be consideied. "DUNEDIN, June 7. Captain Carey, the popular commodore of the Upion Company's fleet, is about to tttin. „,, „ j Mr Donald Reid, junr., M.H.R., addressed 'a. fairly attended meeting of his constituents at Mosgiel this evening. He adversely criticised the Government administration, but supported several of their measures. He declared himself a strong advocate of freehold tenure. Negotiations for a settlement of the oisj pute in" connection with the Flour Millers Association are still proceeding. It is expected that the matter will be brought to a definite'head by noon to-morrow. At a meeting of the Patient's and Pris- • oners' Ait}iSoeiety tbe agent brought under notice the question'of sending stowaways to gaol,:-having reference to two young men who arrived a few days ago from London and were sent to prison. He doubts -whether the sentences will have any deterrent, effect on people in the Home Country, and suggests that if the law must be vindicated, as, stowaways cannot be iient back, that they should be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on or admitted to probation. They may have in them the making of good colonists, and it is undesirable that their fiixt colonial acquaintances should be criminal*. It was.resolved to communicate with the Miriister of Justice on the subject. INVERCARGILL, June 7. The Presbytery of Southland to-day unanimously resolved to cordially concur in the proposal of the General Assembly to continue negotiations to ascertain if a sufficient agreement in doctrine and pouty gives reasonable'grounds for- union with the Methodist and .Congregational Churches. . „ , A.fire'm.-*vV'nton at 3 a.m.. destroyed tbV*boti''6'f'tar J. '■' l- Wilson, grocer, and damaged that of Mrs Whyte, fruiterer. The latter was owned by Mr Jas, Gilmour, and' wai iniujed for £l5O with the North British,': and sfbok and furniture for £IOO in the Mrs Whyte's stock was removed, also a little of Mr Wilson's. Three .persons were fined to-day. .for repositing and canytog/cartridges in a train, • two being women who were taking the explosives home and loft them in a carriage. •'* '■-:.-