INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 14003, 11 September 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press "Association. AVAffGANUI, Sept. 10. - - A meeting ot tlio Management Com- , mittec> ot tlio AYaiigamiij. XNaiiicr. laru-. naki, and Manawatu Railway ecs'. . Sick Benclit; Society, the proposal ot tlio executive council ot ,tho Aiualgainatodv tipcicty of oKaUway Servants |on .tlio question of ' tliii . establishment of a,,Douunioir Sick Benefit Society, and rosplvod to. recommend that no changes »bo made, as tlio prosent constitution' and 1 administration aro satisfactory to tlio • majority ;• of . members.' " > ? . AVELLINGTok, Scpt.'lO, During tlio past season tjio iJVJ[arine : ■> Department sold 90,000 Wown-trout ova to the following acclimatisation societies -.—Wellington, 400,000; Greymouth, 200,000; Southland, 100,000; Nelson, 100,000; Hawke's Bay* 60,000; Oaiharu, 60,000 ; Marlborough , 40,000; : Stratford, 10,000. Thto ova ;■ obtained from the Otago and Canterbury rivers were sold to ■ tlio t societies at 5s per thousand. _ As a result of-a polico raid in H.aining street'two young . tChincao i wero charged at tjie Police Court to-day. With ~ selling pakapoo tickets. They woro remanded. till Wednesday. , . The Marino Department states that • the demand for rock oystera, which waft so great at the beginning of thfe season that orders could not bo iilled -qHiidcly enough, lias fallen off to such an extent that some of tlio pickers have had to he discharged. Tlic season will closo at the end of next mojitli. ~ _ -f Alex. McLood and J*obert Wdson . wcrd charged at tlio Police Court .today with selling beer on Sunday without a license. McLeod, against whom there were two former pleaded guilty, and was fined -£o i each of two cases, lbe police istate"that illicit traffic nv drink had been going on for sonic time. Accused vero selling beer in tlio street at the rate of is 6d a bottle. They took it homo in ouantities on Saturday, and sold it r in the street next day. \\ llso ' 1 ', v •" pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to siv weeks' imprisonment.

INVERCARGILL. Sept. 10. • An attempt was mado to enter the 'Farmers': Cooperative Association,s. premises duriug tlie night by lovor>ng a ladder from .tlio roof through lirrht. The .ladder fell on the floor.; Tb" d' c aDp f, ihted burglar on'tho roof evidently dronoed a, li<ilite<l matHi, irhich set f're to some drapery. Tlio bla*« was fortunately seen by a, conand promptly by the brigade. The" damage was sligl\t.