INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10060, 30 January 1909, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PF,K 1' HESS A SSUCIATIOX -) W'KLLlXtl'l'liN. .January 30. The jmlgment- in the Jlutt- loral option poll favors the Trade. ( 'nnl inuanee is ther<'fore d-eelared earri< v d. During shunting operations at 'I horn don last night a shunter named (leorge Alexander Watkins was accidentally kill<wl. With two others he was engaged in breaking trucks when suddenly his lantern was seen to fall and his companions found him lying across the rails terribly injured and ijmte dead. It is supposed that lie slipped and before he could recover hiinselt the truck passed over him. Deceased, who was a married man, came lin in Australia. lie had been in the railway servile for four or live years, ami was an experienced slniuler. UHUISICiII'KCII. .January 30. The Ituapehu arrived at I'lymo'iith oil January 29. AUCKLAND. January 00. The lion. J. A. Millar informed a depu tation that in the Harbors Hill he would piovide for greater representation of shipowners on tiie Auckland Hoard, lie stated that he would introduce legislation— prob ablv next session—for the regulation o! oil launches plying for hire. Permits for private launches would be given without restriction. PALMKRSTON NORTH. January 30. Herbert Bergstrom. on remand on a charge of stealing 202 sheep, was brought before the Court this morning and lurlher remanded to Monday week, bail being lix ed at £2OO :ind two sureties of £IOO each. The sheep sold by Bergstrom have been traced bv Constable Ta met' and Detective Ouirke io the liall'onr I'.state, I'ahiatua. They were idcntilied by the manager ol the estate, for whom accused worki-d For twelve months. '! he ■ police stated that oUter charges would probably lie laid against accused. X AIM Kit. January 30. In the course of an interview with a llailv Telegraph reporter, Sir Joseph Ward referred to the reported registratii.u in Australia by Auckland shipowners. The lYemier slat'eil thai, hearing the iMmor before it was published, he wire.il to Mr t". lloldsworth. general manager ~r the I'nion Steam Ship Company, the largest shipping organisation south of the r.iic. asking- ii' there was anything .in the iuiitor. ,\s lar u.'i the I nion (_<nu|)auy is . nncerued. Mr Ibjklsworih rejilic.l, there is nothing of the kind eontciuplal wl or anticipateid. Tim Premier thought that when the largest, shipping organisation m the country expressed this view Ihere i n -round for uneasiness. 'I he Xew /called shipping htws were for the protection of life, together with the assistance of .■.hipowners. and any ellort on the part, o| political parties to remove them would he absolutely inclfeelive. Tie- I'rciuicr informed the reporter thai Mr L. Mael;crsey's Tangoio Kstat.e. < oin]irising 8500 acres, had been placed under oll\r to the (lovernnienl through the member for the district, Mr J. \ igo' 1 Hrown. lie had instructed the Chairman of the Land Purchase Hoard to examine and report on the property and, il suitable. it would be acquired for closer settlement. VKITiDINO. January 30. Sixteen hundred and sixty tine rams were entered for the Keilding ram fair lo be held on Thursday next, a record l ilt cy. being 200 more than l;isl year. WAI.M A N<! A KO'A. January 30. A. meeting of coal miners is being held here to-day' to consider the best, means ol stopping the medical examination imposed by the' Weal port Coal Company. lIOKITIIvA. ' January 30. Mr K. A. Wickes, of (ireyinouth, is applying for an important water right up •.hi' Araluira river. The water is proposed -,<> be used for hvdro-clcctric mining purposes. and is to be taken froni the second ■iorgc* of the river, where it is estimated some 5000 horse-power may be generated. This is the fourth right of a similar nature lately applied for in Westland. t'wo rights have already been applied tor at, Torolia, and one at the Taipo. Several Ihousand horse-power are involved ill the applications, which, if brought into requisition, would give a, great incentive to mining - and industrial undertakings. So far, however, the tioyernment have hung the applications up and the extended delay is now- being seriously fell, \aluiiblo time is being lost, and as months have, now elapsed since Parliament gave the (lovernmont the power to deal with the applications, it is diUieull t<. understand Ihe continued delay over the matter.