DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2221, 19 June 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] • AUCKLAND, Juno 18^ The premises of Mr. G. Carter, tailor, of Wellesley Street, wero entered by burglars hist night and goods to the value of £2O stolon. At -the Auckland poultry show today. in the North Island championship Mr. H. A. Coates secured that distinction in the Pekin duck section, and Mr. R. E. Widdows for homing pigeon of any color. A private cable states that a.t the annual meeting of the Talisman Gold Mining Company, Mr. George AA llson was appointed a director It is proposed to appoint Mr Stafford a director at. .the Board meeting next week. The former was recommended by the Wellington oominittco and the latter by the Auckland committee.. A conference of local bodies decided in favor of the Auckland Harbor Board assuming control of Manukau and the adiacent harbors. The Auckland City Council, at its meeting to-night, decided to increase the proposed loan to £130,000, of which £32,000 is to be spent on street improvements, and the balance on building a. town hall, morgue, abattoirs, park improvements, etc. NAPIER, June IS.

At a meeting of the Conciliation Board to-dav it was intimated thatthe masters did not desire to give evidence in the engineers’ dispute, and the statement was accepted. A conference took place in tho matter of the painters’ dispute, it being represented that the recommendations filed were in some respects different from the agreement arrived at by tho parties. The Board will hold its next sitting, at Wellington. The • Wainiarama land recently acquired by the Government from the native owners is now under survey, and will he ready for settlement early in the new year. ■'

HASTINGS. June 18. The Maori prophet Rua, with"*clgliteen followers, interviewed the Hon. James Carroll here this afternoon. The party treks to Wairarapa, and thence to’Wellington to interview the Ministers. PALMERSTON N., June 18. ' Tho Catholic body has purchased a large scventccn-roomed residence hero Christian Brothers’ school. The headquarters of the Christian Brothers are at Dublin, and the Australian headquarters at Sydney. Tho only other institution of the kind in New Zealand under the direction of the Christian Brothers is at Dunedin. Reports from Foxton indicate that the bar is in a particularly bad stato despite the spring tides now prevailing. During the week the Gertie bumped crossing tho bar and damaged her , propel k>r ; necessitating twelve hours’ detention. ' The Kennedy reports to have rolled across the bar oil Wednesday night, but tho Hi'mitangi got over without mishap.

WELLINGTON', June 18. In connection with the election of three members to the Public Service Superannuation Board* the Executive of the New Zealand Civil Service Association resolved to-night to recommend Messrs G. Allport (Wellington), H. W. Bishop, S.M. (Christchurch), and H. R. Spcnco (Auckland) for the support of the Association’s members throughout tlio Dominion. The Minister for Public Works has promised the Paparoa. Coalmining Company to open the Blackball railway very early next year. At a meeting of the Police Provident Board to-day, annual pensions were granted as follows: —Chief-De-tective AV. L. Chrystall (Christchurch) £l4O, retiring medically unfit; Detective Henderson (Auckland) £164, retiring on age limit; Constable C. Cooper (Ara-moho) £lOl, retiring medically unfit. Ruling on the question raised under the cooks’ and waiters’ award, the Arbitration Court decided that the limit fixed for each day’s work cannot be exceeded, even although employers may be willing to pay overtime for work done in excess of that limit. Thus an employer is not ontitled to require a waiter to work more than eleven hours in any one day. The following is Captain Edwin’s weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-mor-row : Stroirn southerly winds at most places northward of Napier, Taupo, and Raglan, moderate to strong easterly winds changing towards north elsewhere; and falling barometer everywhere.-' CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. Dr. Mitchell, surgeon of the Antarctic exploration ship Nimrod, and Air. Harbord, second officer of the vessel, left Christchurch this meriting for Broken River, where they are to start on a walking tour in the’West Coast and the Wellington districts. The application for enforcement against- the Christchurch Tramway Board in respect of the appointment of a ticket inspector from outside the ranks of the conductors and motormen came before the Arbitration Court to-day. The question,, as argued before the Court, turned on the point whether promotions had to be made froln conductors and motormen only or from the office staff. Decision was reserved. TJAIARU, June 18. A tea-room proprietor was fined today £2 and costs, C2 16s, for two breaches of the Shops and Offices Act by employing a waitress over 52 hours hi one week and failing to give her a half-holiday. DUNEDIN, June 18 Mr .Furket. at present resident engineer at Ohakuno, succeeds Air. Usher as district engineer for Otago.