LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1801, 6 July 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Par Press Association.)

Groymouth, last night.

The Arbitration Cqurt decision jn .(lie ease of the Union Steam Ship Con'jpany versus the Greymouth ' Wliqrf Laborers’ Union lias been delivered.

■cfcrence to unionists is retained, as also

the old rate of pay and several minoi ;i,lterations (ire made to insure better working. JLt is ij victory for the laborers, who were represented at the hearing by Messrs John Jackson, Guodall, and Carter, WelliogtoD, last night.

Sailed, the Manuka for Napier, Gisborne, Auckland, and Sydney. Passengers for Auckland : Miss George, Mesdamcs Cast, George, Hawthorne, C'raiuond and two children, Young, EenwicK, Dean, Harper. Major Shepherd, Messrs Coom, Gently, Collat'd, Lodder. Stevens, Stewart, McKay, Stead, Davis, Polly, Hawthorne, Young." Invercargill, last night. The Invercargill Borough Council tonight. on the advice of their solicitors, proceeded to appoint a Town Clerk in accordance vyitli the Municipal Corpora, tions Act, their previous method of balloting not being in accordance with the law. On this occasion all the applicants were not balloted. A motion that T. W. Walker, the former selection, be appointed was carried, as against an amendment that another be selected, which found three supporters out of eleven. The gale has subsided, but the weather is still unsettled.