HBH 1890 April 26 Districts Wellington General News Page Two Mr Charles T BATKIN, Assistant Controller and Auditor,, who retired from the Civil Service on the 31st March, was today presented with a piece of plate and a gold watch suitably inscribed. Mr J E FITZGERALD, Controller-General occupied the chair, and Judge RICHMOND and the Premier were present. The directors of the WOOLLEN Factory Company have chosen Dr Mc GREGOR as their arbitrator in the dispute with the section of their employees with whom differences exist. That company has now purchased the steamer DINGADEE, which was recently running in the West Coast coal trade, under charter to the Union Steamship Company. NELSON Yesterday William KRUSE, a settler at BRIGHTWATER, was riding on the tope of a load of straw, when, on passing under the telegraph line, the wire caught him and threw him to the ground with such force that he sustained severe internal injuries of which he died today CHRISTCHURCH Police arrested two young men who began to loot Mr STRAAZ, jeweller. Dunedin Dredging operations have entirely removed the shoal just inside the Heads, and there is now twenty feet at dead low water on the spot Delegates from the Wharf Labourers' Union continued their sittings yesterday Representatives were as follows: - AUCKLAND-Messrs BIUES, BOONSTA, PURLEY GISBORNE-Mr GREAME NAPIER-Messrs CREAGH and PENN WELLINGTON-Messrs DP FISHER, SEYMOUR, and SCOONES LYTTELTON-Messrs BROWN, LEWARNE, SERRA OAMARU-Messrs GRAPPELER, and Mc LAUGHLIN TIMARU-Messrs FOGGARTY, and MATTHEWS DUNEDIN-Messrs FORSTER, PERCY, and HAYES BLUFF-Messrs Mc DOUGALL and HAY.