INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13643, 10 July 1908, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) ;* AUCKLAND, July 9. The steamer Claymore, which arrived safely at Kawhia "last evening, reports thatthe distress signals che was showing arose from the fact, that the vessel was using sails. A deputation of eighty men waiter on the Mayor to-day, saying that they were unable" to-obtain employment. The Mayor promised to communicate with the . Premier on the" subject. The local office of the Labour Department states that there is a slight, congtstion in the labour market, but this is not unusual all this .ime of the year. Since Monday the Department hits sent twenty-four* men to employment. out of town, and forty-five men have since applied. GISBORJfE, July 9. The urgent necessity for more goal accommodation is exemplified by the fact that- the cells are full, and the police are being put to no little inconvenienoe in having to make shakedowns for the lawbreakers. CHRISTCHURCH, July 9. A " Truth "■ representative sought the opinions of theatrical managers on the municipal enactment that in local places of amnsement every seat in the house shall be numbered, and thail every patron paying for admission shall be given a ticket bearing a" number corresponaing with the seat he shall occupy. Four managers were interviewed, and they all stated that the by-law would be unworkable.