Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 197, 15 December 1896, Page 3

Interprovincial News.

Bv Tki.koi:wh/ (/'. r J "(o n.) Arthur Alien charged with malicious injury to property, namely breaking two p!ut< u'la-- windows, valued at Jt 1 •"». in the Cnited Service Hotel, Auckland, was committed fur trial. He was refused a drink. lie has been convicted eight times for wilful damau't' to property and JO times altogether. r.eujamin (inives. aged 70. living in a hut at Avondale, Auckland, refused to L'o to the hospital for treatment. A constable went for him. but Oreaves died in a cab on the way to the hospital. At an inquest on Thomas Sutton, killed on the wharf on Saturday at Timarii, a verdict of ••Accidental death " was returned. A number of men were shunting a dozen loaded trucks by pushing. I )••<.-• aM-d. who walked between tin- rails, caught his foot in a check rail at the eroding, was thrown down, and run over. Ikdied within two hours. Experts state that there was no danger if the man had looked where he put his feet, but men continually would go between the rails to push. A special meeting of the Diinedin Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to consider the fiction of the shipping companies in issuing a circular s!atiiv_r that in future they will carry only to Port Chalmers owing to th>' d< creased depth of water ill Victoria channel. This means that importers will have to pay :>s 7d per ton extra. It was resolved that an official notification be sent to the London offices of the companies of the vigorous efforts the Harbor Board are now making to deepen the channel, and that in view of the loss and hardship the companies be asked to reconsider their decision, and at least delay carrying out the n i policy, say for a year, until tL i ill of the Board's operations can ( 1. At a meetm if the creditors of F. H. Laing. prod uce merchant, at Dunedin yesterday, the Otiicial Assignee stated that he had telegraphed to Laing both at Wellington and Wanganui. but had received no reply. As the telegrams had not been returned be presumed they had reached Laing. The Assignee said he would try and see if he could not get a warraut for bankrupt's arrest. At a conference between the Dunedin employers and employes in the furniture trade, a hg was agreed upon, all matters in dispute being amicably arranged. The minimum wage was fixed at 8s per day. and the proportion of apprentices was fixed at one to three journeyman or fraction thereof. It was decided to only recognise two classes —journeymen and apprentices. 1 =