New Zealand Telegrams.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6712, 2 June 1900, Page 3

New Zealand Telegrams.

(Per Press Association.)

Timaru, June 2. I A meeting of ratepayers last night, at which 50 were present, passed a resolution in favour of tlie Borough Council negotiating with the Gas Company for the purchase of the works, and ii-the price asked is not satisfactory the Council to seek legislation to provide for an appeal to arbitration. The same meeting discussed the rating on unimproved values, and in pursuance of a petition being signed by 250 the Mayor will take a poll on the question, Nelson, June 1. As an outcome of the Government trawler Doto's successful experimental trawling in Blind Bay, a syndicate has been formed in Nelson, and arrangements are being made to trawl for the market at an early date. I Auckland, June 1. I At the Arbitration Court a charge against Arthur Cleve of alleged breach j of the Act, by dismissing three members | of a union on account of a dispute re- | ferred to the Court was dismissed, the Court holding that it had no jurisdiction, and there had been no oflence against the law. Auckland, June 2. At the Arbitration Court, Mr Justice Martin delivered judgment in the dispute between the Saddlers' Union and the Auckland master saddlers. The award orders journeymen saddlers to receive a minimum wage of one shilling per hour. The case of those journeymen who are not worth that wage is to be settled and mutually between the Union and employers. Provision is made for female stitchers, also for apprentices. The award is to come into force on June 80th and continue till June Ist, 1902. A meeting attended by two hundred I representative Waikato residents, held 1 at Te Awamutu, carried unanimously a resolution recommending that residents of the King Country be given equal opportunity with other districts in deciding by ballot wliethsr alcoholic liquor be sold in their midst. Dunedin, June 2. Hartley and Riley returns are 207 ounces for the week. Cnp.isTcnuiicn, June 2. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, recognising that it must ' look to public schools for its future athletics, last evening appointed a sub- ' committee to take steps towards forming a public schools' Associatien to encourI age aud control athletics among the boys j j of public schools. • j Mr G, A. Preece, land agent, has foi v^sale or lease a large number of first-class 3 flfflrH-arms, particulars of which will be found intouracrvei-tij'ing columns.