TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 14 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[UNITED PiXSS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 13th July. Yesterday the Orangemen marched in retfalia to the Choral Hall, where the Very Grand Chaplain, the Eev. A. J. Smith, preached a sermon. Twenty-five lodges were represented. To-day they marched with their banner to the Surrey Hills Presbyterian Church, where the Eev. Sobert Somerville preaohed. A soiree in the evening was largely attended. Judge Gillies has deolined to make an order for restoration to the Colonial Insurance Company of £50 found upon Oswald Hertzog on his return from the South, as it had not been shown it was part of the .£l5O received from the company. Invkbcabgili,, 13th July. The Southland Hospital Committee, after two sittings upon the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Bill, have adopted an exhanstive critical report submitted by a sub-committee. The report condemns the Bill in most of its leading provisions, and suggests the adoption of a uniform system of subsidy such as has prevailed here and worked satisfactorily for past years -namely, pound for pound on voluntary contribution, and management of institutions by looal committees eleoted by subioribera. ! Dunbdin, 13th July. A prisoner named James Eastwood was sentenced to 28 days' bread and water for attempting to escape from gaol with a rope made out of a blanket. The City Council to-night dieousssd the Charitable Aid and Looal Finance Powers Bills and strongly condemned them. It was resolved to oommunicate with the city members, pointing out how the proposals would press unfairly on cities. This Day, An untenanted two story house in Cargillstreet, owned by Mr. M'Keohnie, took fire and was completely gutted last night. It was insured in the Norwich Union for J8350. There is no clue to the origin of the outbreak. The dispute between the lumpers and the master stevedores has oome to an end. Chribtobuboh, This Day. The body of the fisherman, James Derritt, who was drowned at Sumner about a month ago, was discovered washed up on the beach at New Brighton yesterday. The hearing of the charges of conspiring: to defraud the Government preferred against Thomas Hough, timekeeper at the Lyttelton Railway Station, and several workmen employed there, commenced at the Supreme Court yesterday. Hough and a labourer named Bobert Dudley were first indicted. It is alleged that all the oonspirators were mutually benefitted by the false returns of work done, sent in by Hough, and for which the labourers drew wages to which they were not entitled. The case was not finished when the Court adjourned last night.