AUCKLAND NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6436, 16 March 1899, Page 1

AUCKLAND NEWS.

[Veu Pukss Association-. 1 AUCKLAND, Maich 14. Ihe Waikixto farmers, owing to the unreinunerativo prices offering for grain, are memorialising the Minister of Railways to seduce freights -and terminal charges by 25 percent.. J The Vigilance- Coir mil tee of the Auck-. land- rarannki- Railway League is moving to interview the- Premier regarding railway matters on his appronclring visit. The eight houra system for nurses is to foe adopted in the Auckland Hospital, except in the fever wards. It is stated that it will cost £355 a, year extra. The salary of the medical superintendent has been reduced from £750 to £500. _ March 15. Robert Houson has been committed for trial at Wliangarei on a charge of the murder of Robert Fuller. ■ Accused reserved his defence. -. Mr Of. E. Alderton, on /behalf of an Australian Syndicate, . has purchased .several il voups'oi mineral springs' in tlie.vicmity of Whangarei, with the object of bottling the. water .for export. ■ . . Dr Mncarthur, Messrs W. Leys and 'Iheo. Cooper have been elected members of the Education Board. , A cablegram from Mr Brigham, secretary to the Harbour Board, states' that ihe Admiralty has not yet definitely settled matters in connection with the establishment of works at the Calliope Dock. Mr Chamberlain promised a decision before Easter. Mr A. T. Potter, entomologist, of Whangarei, acting under instructions from the .Agricultural Department, inspected the Remuera district, and found four vineries infected with phylloxera. The vineries were destroyed to-day. Mr Potter states that the whole district, so far as he knows, is now free from the pest.