AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 15 June 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

l&ailway Commissioners Melbourne. June 14.— The resignation of the Railway Commissioners has been accepted, and Franci.*, Kibble and Kenwiek have been appointed Acting-Commissioners for three months. Chinese invasion. BeisbjlNE, Tuesday.— The Chinese are deserting the mining centres in the Northern Territory and bordea are making for the Queensland border. Government are taking step 3to prevent the inroad.

The Governor will probably visit Auckland after the Session, but no plans have been formed yet. The Wellington police have discovered a gang of small boys who read blood and thunder literature, lived in an old stable, and committed numerous petty burglaries. Three of them! were sent to the Wellington Industrial School on Saturday. A party pf five ship- wrecked seamen, from the Auckland brigantine Ryno, 1-wt on Flint Island, arrived at Auckland on Saturday night by the s.s. Richmond. The Government are considering a proposal to erect a plant in the north of the South Island to manufacture salt from the ocean. An oM Maori named Jacob, who is reported to be over 120 years old, died at Kaipukapuka, near Bell Block, lately. It ig sfated that he saw Captain Cook's ship. It is understood that the opponents of the • Sydenham Licensing Committee have arranged ; to appeal to the Privy Couucil against the reI cent decision of the Court of Appeal. The Napier School Committee have decided that they have no objection to children going to school barefooted if their feet are deceatly clean.