TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2020, 4 March 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Tho first caso under the Habitual Drunkards Act in Christchurch was heard to-day, when a woman was sent to the Sanatorium for two yonrs. She had boon 14 times beforo the Court.

DUNEDIN, Saturday. Tho Acting-Premier suggests Easter Monday for the official opening of the Otago Central railway to Clyde. WELLINGTON, Saturday. Tho demands made in connection with tho terms of employment of domestic servants are attracting considerable attention, owing to proceedings beforo the Arbitration Court being probable. A mooting of women ho occupy domestic servants is a be held noxt weok, with tho object of forming a union of employers, as has been dono by the girls. Tho secretary of the Domestic Workors’ Union has received a lottor from a resident of tho city who employs sovoral servants, in tho courso of which she says tho domestic workors employed by her havo for years had nil tho privileges that are now being demanded, but they do not all leave tho house at the sarno time, and their hours of relaxation aro arranged among themselves. Privnto houses, she points out, aro not like shops or factories, which can be shut up at will.

In tho Divorce Court to-day a docroo nisi was granted in tho caso ol Anderson v. Anderson, wifo’s petition.

Owing to the continued disarrangement 1 of the ’Frisco mail service, the acting Postmastor-General has directed that- no mails for Great Britain be received or sent by that routo. For tho present tho Suez route is to be used until further notice, unless specially good opportunities arise for sending mails by the direct or the Vancouver routo. Subsidised connecting steamers to Sydney leave Wellington on the Bth and fortnightthereafter.

INVERCARGILL, yesterday

At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, it was resolved that in the interests of the travelling public the time has arrived to establish a night train service between Dunedin and Christchurch. It was decided also to seek tho co-operation of southern chambers in the matter.

Tho duty collected on local heir consumed here last month m injunl od to £164 19s 9d, as compared with £152 16s 3d in the same month last year. On imported beer, that is, beer made outside the electorate, the luty last month was £214 14s 6d. The returns relating to othor kinds of liquors aro as follows, the figures for February, 1906, being given in parenthesis: Wine, sparkling £4 10s f£4 10s), Australian £4B 11s 2d £io 4f), other kinds £27 8s 5d (£sl Is 7d), spirits £1683 19s- (£1322 7s 6d). It will thus be seen that the revenue from liquor of various sorts during February last was £2143 13s lOd, as compared with £1556 3s lOd in February, 1906, an increase of £587 10s. DUNEDIN, Saturday.

A fourteen-roomed house and stable at Merton, valued respsjti'Ay at £3OO and £IOO, belonging to .Lin es Mnrison, was totally dest-r; -.1 by fire Tho house was insured for £250, and the stable for £75 in the Alliance office; the furniture for £SO in an office not known. Mr. Justice Williams was occupied yestorday with the action, Bremner and others (volunteer. officers) v. tho Dunedin Corporation and another. The point in dispute is as to whether the drillshed formerly owned by the South District Rifles, and on their disbandment used by the Caversham Rifles, became vested in the Dunedin Corporation as successors to the Caversham ..Corporation., The case for the plaintiffs is that the trust was for volunteer purposes only, and that consequently the defendant Corporation have no right tp the land. Judgo Williams reserved judgment.

CLOTHING TRADE. CONFERENCE OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. An important conference between the N.Z. clothing manufacturers and the employees of the clothing industry takes place on Monday. All the clothing manufacturing firjns ? n the colony except those at Auckland will • be represented. Arrangements have also been made to have the workers’ interests adequately guarded. TJie number of workers concerned is about 1400. It has been found that the awards of the Court are in some respects unsatisfactory and unworkable, and instead of going to the Arbitration Court it has been thought both on the part of the employers and the workers, that a conference of representatives of both parties might be able to come to an amicable agreement with respect to points in question. The clothing manufacturers applied to the Minister for Labor for ‘his permission for Mr. J. Mackay, assistant secretary of tho Labor Department, to act as chairman of the conference, but the Minister -replied that he did not think it would bo right for Mr. Mackay to act, holding as he does a responsible position in the public service, Tho manufacturers, in reply, expressed their regret that Mr. Mackay could not act; as they had the utmost confidence in his fairness to both sides. The particular points in dispute are those bctwcon the Tailoresses’ Union on tho one side and tho clothing manufacturers oil the other sido. The clothing manufacturers hold a preliminary meeting this evening, and will hold the conference with the employees on Monday.

THE ’FRISCO SERVICE. AUCKLAND yesterday. The Sierra arrived at noon yesterday. Tho delay was caused by the boilers working badly after leaving Honolulu. The steamer remained 2 days 7 hours at Pagopago, during which the boilers were blown down and the valves repaired. Everything worked satisfactorily on the run to Auckland, the average rate of speed being 14 knots. The Sierra loft for Sydney this morning, and is timed to leave Auckland for Sail Francisco on March 18. The Ventura follows on March 22. The Sonoma, on arrival at Sydney, will be the last boat of the present service, a result of the Government ultimatum re tho carriage of tho mails. It is rumored that a new service, in which Spreckles is interested, will probably take up the running. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, last night.

The annual Congress of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association will open in Dunedin on Monday, and is expected to extend over several days. The greater portion of the time of the Congress will be occupied with matters of interest only to the medical facility. The President for this year is Dr. Barnett, of Dunedin, and he will deliver the opening address on Monday evening. Oil Tuesday evening there will be a discussion -on the question of medical examination of school children, and to this, anil also to the Presidential address on the previous evening, tho public is Invited. The chief health officer for tho colony (Dr. Mason) will attend tho meeting, but the Minister of Public Health (Hon. G. Fowhls), who was also to have boon present, Has notified that ho will bo uiiablo to be in Dunedin at the time.