INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13937, 24 June 1909, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 23. At a meeting ol masters ami jourueymeii to-night, resolutions were passed favouring an additional duty of 20 per cent, on imported sudd lory ami also an export duty on hides. It was stated that the -New Zealand being glutted l>_v certain lines of Imported saddlery and also that too many hides were being exported, with the result that then; was sometimes a dilliculty in getting orders in leather fulfilled. WELLINGTON, Juno 23. The manager of tin- ;>la.-K!>all Company denits that ihe tire in _>liil s yrtivl in Duuedin on .-iauirttay ocet.rr. .1 in Blackball coal ;.r through it. Instates that their coal lias only been supplied tor eleven Months, and tiiat the seat of lire was near the oilier coals, and it was v.ifticult to say what caused it. John Hemingway, a young man recently brought back to Wellington from Sydney, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with stealing £lO worth of tweed from C. H. Diek- | erson's warehouse, Wellington. Ac- ; cused was '.emanded for a week. Bail ' was allowed in accused's own bond of £l5O, with two sureties of £75 each. DUNEDTN, June 23. -Knox College, with Professor Hewitsor. as master, was officially opened bv the Moderator .'I the Presbyterian Assembly this morning. The Hon. Mr Fowlds was present. The Rev. Mr Cameron, chairman of the erection committee, stated ill-it the funds in hand were sufficient to meet th' erection expenses of the College throughout. At the Police Court this morning. James Nicliolls, a seaman, was sentenced to six months* imprisonment, with hard labour, on n charge of stealing stout from Ihe hold of the hr.ique Lakemba at Port Chalmers.

Richard H. Jenkins received two months' imprisonments and Charles Yeo nine months, • n a j-V.rgo ci r-m-

bezzling cargo on the Mamnri 011 the high seas. Accused were -e\:>i- 11 on board the steamer.