INTERPROVINCIAL.

Star (Christchurch), 23 May 1895, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPiB Pbess Association.] DANEVIRKE, Mat 23:

At the Stipendiary Magistrates' Court yesterday, Broun and Co., sawmillerß, were fined £25 and costs, for having on five occasions made wilful misstatements of the quantity of. timber loaded on railway trucks.

WELLINGTON, Mat 23.

The expenditure during the financial year by the Lands and Survey Department out of the Publio Works Fund under the Lands Improvement and Native Land Purchase Acts, was £193,694, with liabilities of .£193,295. Of the latter £131,378 U on the Lands Improvement Act.

The 10 per cent reduction in salaries by the Bank of New Zealand will include the president, directors, and. Government auditor.

In consequence of Inspector Pender'a visit to England, the North Island will be divided into three, instead of four, police districts. Inspector Hickson will remain in charge at Auckland, and Inspector Emerson at Napier; but Inspector; Thomson will return from New Plymouth to Wellington, retaining charge of part of the Taranaki district.

The Native Office is obtaining a large number of signatures of Maoris along the Central line. It is believed that the Nativea are anxious to bind themselves to sell before they are called on to sign the agreement now being circulated among them not to alienate more land to the Crown until they are conceded the same right of transfer as Europeans.

DUNEDIN, Mat 23,

The Court held that the purely mechanical part of dentistry, taken independently of the part "performed by the operator, was a handicraft, and that dentistry rooms should be registered aB a factory. Mr Armstrong, the defendant, was, consequently, fined in a nominal penalty. Notice of appeal was at once lodged. Mr Abraham Myera was fined 10s and costs in each of two cases for failing to give the employes in his factory a halfholiday.

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