NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 September 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(['Eli MESS ASSOCIATION.) Committed for Trial. Wellington, This Dtiy. Wra Doylo was committed for trial to day on a charge of stealing £4, money, and jewellery valued at £39, the property of a woman who keeps a boarding house, ft; appeared that accused and another man, who was not called, had been drinking with the lindlady in her bedroom, and that the case for the prosecution was that accused subsequently abstracted the keys of the u&to in which the valuables wore kept from the woman's pocket while she was asleep. Flax Grading.

Tho Minister of Agriculture has, in accordance'with tho w;sh of a large number of millors and merchants, decided to ntroduce a Bill to make tho grading of flax by a Government expert compulsory. Tha Cooks and Stewards Union.

The Cooks and Union of Now Zealand has filed an Industrial dispute with the Onion Steamship Company !\3 to hours of labour, wages, etc. Arbitration Court. Waiui, September 11, The Arbitration Court concluded its hearing of the Miners' Union evidence to-day. Barry, Superintendent of the Waihi Company, in giving evidence stated that his reaoon for dismissing the men was that tlio Home directors of the Company instructed -him tn curtail expenses and shorten hands. He had dismissed certain men, as they had, aroused unrest and dissatisfaction. No men had been dismissed since the matter had been brought under the notice of the Conciliation Board.

Inspection of Vessels. ■Wellington, This Day. • _ The Governor has appointed Haselden i.M., a Commissioner to enquire into allegations of unnecessary delay in the matter of inspections required by the Public Health] Act of tho steamer Monowai and tho; barque G.M. Tucker, in Wellington last month