INTER PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1831, 3 May 1888, Page 3

INTER PROVINCIAL NEWS.

jf (PER PBES3 ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 2. At the Polloe Oonrt to-day, bafore Dr Giles, tho o:»ee of Oapt. Oorbett v the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, a claim foe £500 damages for alleged anBkilfal treatment daring the time plalntifi was ft patient at the Hosplul, was heard. A verdict was given for defendants, with coats £9 3s. Two small boys, about ten years of age, Thomas Elliot and A. Maxwell, were brought op at the Police Ooort to-day on a charge of stealing a horse and bridle. The horse wbb the property of a man named Thomas, and was taken by the lads early la the morning, and was sold by them to a man named John Reardon, who paid them 7a 6i for the animal. Mr Baddeley, who waß on the Benoh, santenoed the boys to ten daya imprisonment, and ordered that they be separated from the other prisoners, snd to receive a whipping with a birch rod. The tailors' Btrike continues, and at a maetlng of the Journeymen Tailors' Society yesterday evening it vraa decided to join the Trade Oounoil. Letters expressing sympathy and support were read from societies m the South, and also from the Auckland Trade Oounoil, It was stated by men on picket m the street who are watching the shopß affected, that work is being sent out of first-class shops to slop faotoriea and to slop Bhops In town, to be done by persons that would not be allowed to work for them at other timt a. It was also reported that there are now over twenty men out on strike. About a dozen have left town, and have gone to Australia. Wellington, May 2 t Government are not likely to take any action re the Chinese by the steamer Afghan beyond imposing the poll tax. After the expiry of present licenses to dig and searoh for gum on State lands, the Government will not renew them, as it 1b thought thht In the past a large amount of damage to kauri forests haß been occasioned through the careleaßnesß of gam seekers. The annaal report of the Wellington Pabllo Hall Company, by whloh the Theatre Royal is owned, recommends that owing to the limited receipts last year, no dividend be deolared. Punbdin, May 2. At a meeting of the Dunedln Preebjtery a O°mmittee w»b appointed to take Into consideration the pamphlet "Reign of Grace," published by Professor Salmond, who was former occupant of the theological chair, and report to the next meeting. Inveroargill, May 2. Mr H. Peldwlok, M fI,R. for loveroargill, addressed a small meeting of hla constituents to-night, and received a vote of [ thanks and confidence.