NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1495, 18 July 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Br Tcleeraph-Prosi AsioclftttolU —: A CLEAN CITY, Auckland, July 17. "The health of Auckland city has never been better than it is now," declared the City Council's chief inspector to a press representative this morning. "On tho surface it may not appear that tliero has been anything iiniisvlal in the activities of our department, but it is in invisible places that we "have. been concentrating our efforts, and the fact that the plague season is now over and Auckland, for tho ■first time for several'- years, has not had .a single case of bubonic, is, we claim, due to the work which wo havo done in conjunction with the Public Health Department during the past twelve months. We claim that Auckland is now a clean city,' and are confident that with tho co-opera-tion of citizens we will have no difficulty in keeping it so." .

DROP OF 201) FEET. Taihapo, July 17. Yesterday .afternoon,.'.while a. team of six. horses was hauling timber and logs over the Gibbs suspension bridge across the Otailiaps liiyer, at Utiku, on ono side tho cables gave out, tipping the horses and men into the river, a drop of about '200 feet. Up to the present there is no trace of the men'and horses. The men are named Ernest Pink and Richard %Hopwood, and both are single.

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. . Rotonia, July 17. Mr. Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, sat yesterday and to-day in tlio matter of an industrial dispute between the proprietors of boardinghouses and employees who claimed an award giving shorter hours and increased wages. Tlio assessors failed to arrive at an agreement, and the matter will lie reserved for the Arbitration Court.

THE TREATY OF WAITANGI. Rotorua, July 17. The Ngatiwhakaues, at a meeting at Ohinemutu to-day, decided to endeavour to raise the sum of ,£GOO for pursuing in the Appeal Court their claim lor the sovereignty of Rotorua and other lakes in this district, put forth under the Native interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi.

LIGHT BRIDGES: HEAVY TRAFFIC. Napier, July 17.. At the inquest on Ernest Turpiii, who wws killed on May 10, through a traction engine crashing through a. bridge near Havelock, the Coroner returned, a verdict of accidental' death, adding a rider that it should be made unlawful for a local body to build a heavy traffic bridge without, first submitting plnns and specifications to the Public Works Department; and that i such bridge must be passed by an engineer. ■

"LABOURER-POET'S" DEATH. Blenheim, .Tilly 17. John Chalk, aged fevent,v-five, was found drowned in a paddock behind the t'olico Ration this morning. It is not known how he happened, to lie there. Deceased had some reputation as a labourerpoet. He was a stable hand at the Grosvenor Hotel.

NELSON LOAN PROPOSALS, Nelson, July 17. A poll was taken to-day on two loan proposals. The first was ,£3200 for the erection of salt water baths, and the second .£I2OO for the extension of the waterworks reserve. The first was defeated by 459 votes to 391, and the second was carried by 613 to 2G!>.

BRIEF MENTION. Gisborne, July 17. Several burglaries of a minor character have been reported here during the last few days. The 'police arrested, on suspicion, Arthur Turner, a recent arrival from south. He has been remanded till July 24.