AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 448, 15 June 1899, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(BT TELEGRAPH.— PRKSS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, Last Night. The Amalgamated Society of carpenters and joiners, also the Builders Society, accept the award of the Conciliation Court. The Acclimatisation Society have received orders from the New South Wales Fisheries Board for ]OO,OOO trout ova and the Chamber of Agriculture at Tahiti for 1000 trout for the Society Islands. It has been decided to fulfil both orders. A mutual settlement has been arrived at between the journeymen butchers and master butchers, an industrial agreement for a period is to be signed with a penalty. At the Police Court Thomas Buxton, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was charged with a breach of tha Licensing Act by serving John Leonard, alias "Juicy," an intoxicated person, with beer. Defendant pleade '. Lot guilty. After the evi« dence was heard defendant was convicted and fined 40s and costs. Mr Russell asked that the fine be raised to £5, so that he could appeal, as the consequences were serious. Mr Hutchison, S.M., said there could only be an appeal on a point of law, and there was no suggestion of that. Sub-Inspector Wilson pointed out that under the Act the conviction must be endorsed on the license. His Worship endorsed the license. In the divorce suit, Batger v. Batger, the petitioner concluded her evidence, being under examination for four hours. The case will be resumed tomorrow. The libe' action, Spraggv. Edgecumbe, is the next case on the list. At the irquest on Mr Brown, mate of the Hinemoa, who was drowned off East Island, a verdict of " Accidentally drowned " was found, and the jury recommended the Government to provide a safer landing, to disinter the bodies of the seamen at the island and place them in a cemetery.