LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, 13th June.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 137, 14 June 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, 13th June.

Tho Industrial Exhibition opens to-morrow. Tho Committee has received a telegram from tho Premier, stating that tho Government will readily do what is possible to facilitate a visit of members of the Assembly who desire to attend the Exhibition, and will communicate further about appointing a commissioner to report upon it. An aotion is being brought by Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan and Mr. J. C. Williamson against the Lydia Howarde Company, for the alleged unauthorised representation of "H.M.S. Pinafore." The damages claimed are £100. The agitation to obtain the subdivision of tho largo runs continues, and further petitions are being Bent to the Waste Lands Board. A burglary was committed on premises in Great King-street this morning, a small quantity of tools being stolen. An attempt was also made to set fire to the premises, but the police saw the smoke in time to provent any serious damage being done. Hokitika, 13th Jane. Tho Stella transhipped the Maori prison* er3 this morning, thirty-on<» in all, for Patea. Auckland. 13th June. Great dissatisfaction exists among the Auckland railway employes relative to present alterations in pay. Inoreases, it is said, havo been made regardless of length of service or standing. Amongst engineers and firemen the feeling is strongest. The^ complain they are not treated according to a fixed scale as on southern railways. Several employers have been prosecuted undes the Females' Employment Act. Some wore fined, and other casea wero dismissed on technical grounds. Tho Wade Hotel, of which Mr. Kelly is the landlord, has been totally destroyed by fire. There were, it is said, some peculiar circumstances in connection with the affair, but the police had nothing definite to aot upon. Certain facts, however, oame to the knowledge of Constable Moore, which have resulted in the arrest of two men named Imrili Adams and Richard PalkinghOrno Tho chargo against them is, as accessaries after the tact. Thts Day. The enquiry into tho foundering of the schooner Policeman has onded in the return of Captain Champion's certificate. The oaptain was acquitted of all blame, and costs wore awarded against the Marine Board. A whaling company now forming has bought the barque Kepeculador to cruise off the New Zealand coast. The criminal calendar will bo cleared by Justice Gillies, who is expected in the Albion. It consists ot 21 cases, mostly light. Chribtchohch, 13th Jane. A man and woman were arrested to-day on a charge of stealing a number of artiolos from a house at Port Chalmora. The woman was living with tho man from whom the things aro said to have been stolen, and left him for her companion, with whom she walked all the way from Port Chalmers hero. As instancing tho severity of the weather in the northern district, ten head of otttlo wore found dead in a paddock near Amberley. Nine men wore charged to-day with embezzling cargo from the barque Remington, to the extent of four oases milk, four ditto brandy, ono ditto schnapps, and eight bottles stout, of the total value of £21 4s yd. Four of them got nine months' hard labor, four three months', and the other was admitted to give evidence and let off. The costs of the prosecution and damage are to be paid by tho prisoners. . . The West Coast coach had a rough timo coming over tho rangon. At the top of Porter's Pass thero woro several hundred yards of ice and snow two or throe foot deep, and all tho passengers had occasionally to assist iv getting the o mch out of tho slough, while Mrs. Walter Hill, who was a ptißaonger, acted as driver. Napier, This Day. At the Supreme Court to-day, Robert Gallagher, convicted of bisyamy, was sontencod to three years' penal so_rvitud>>. The Jookey Club intend having a ono-day meeting on 11th October. Tho programme includes tho following : — Hawkes' Bay Guineas, 105 boys ; Handicap Hurdles, 60 8ova ; Spring Handicap, 200 soys ; Maiden Plate, 50 soys. New Plymouth. This Day. Bishop Redwood leaves for Hawora tomorrow morning. Oamaru, This Day. Messrs. De Latour and Jonos, M.H.R.'s, left for North to-day.