Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2140, 2 April 1897, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[kkom oor own oohkbspohdbkt.J [By Telegraph.] Auckland, April 1. At the Police Court, Captain Robertson, of the steamer Mabiaapua, wag fined £5 with a shilling per btad for ten extra passengers carried, for overcrowding hie steamer on the voyage from New Plymouth to Onehunga recently. He carried eighty-fire cabin passengers, this number being in exceei of the number allowed by the certificate. A deputation of employees at the Chelsea works of the Colonial Sugar Company, wiited on Mr J. C. Firth, one of the founders of the New Zealand Company, and asked him to bring under the notice of Mr Beddon, before his departure ior London, tho fact that owing to German and French bonuses for beet sugar exported, the trade of the colonial company here is beiDg serionslj im paired) A Inige number of workmen have been dismissed, cud unless* some* thing is doae to protect the local md us try more dismissals will follow. Adelaide, April 1. There ia some likelyhood of the Constitutional Committee submitting tbu Bill to a Committee of the whole ot> Monday, but it will not include th« financial clauses which will take sonvtime longer to prepare. The Convention met this morning, received a nnm - ber of petitions, and then adjpurned unt:: i to-morrow. This procedure will b>-. pnrsued until the Bill is brought to a close.