TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 April 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I UNITED FRBBB ABBOCIATION. ) Auckland, Bth April. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board at a meeting to-night accepted the tender of E. A. Matthews (i>7297) for the erection of Costley's Home for the Aged and Poor, to be built at Epsom. Twenty tenders wero received. Lord Onslow is to bo asked to lay the foundation stone of the building. Louis Paget, charged with stabbing a woman at Archhill, was brought before the Police Court to-day. The case was remanded for eight days. The Waitete section of the To Kuiti contraot having been completed, a complimentary dinner was given to David .Robertson, manager for J. and A. Anderson, the contractors, at Te Euiti on Friday. A meeting was held to-day, Bishop Cowie presiding, to consider the question of rendering assistance to persons afflicted with blindness. Mr. Tighe, who has himself lost his sight, was present, having recently arrived from Australia to undertake the work of educating blind people in New Zealand. A committee was formed to make arrangements for the scheme. It is proposed to ask Government for assistance in the matter. Cheistchurch, Bth April. The operatives in O'Brien's boot factory are threatening to atriko unless the new foreman clicker, who is not a Society man, is dismissed, or a fee of .£lO paid by him. The City Council to-night passed a resolution against the proposal to make Addington Gaol an asylum for criminal lunatics. A meeting of dentists this evening decided that it is advisable to form a Dental Association in New Zealand, and resolved to communicate with dentists in the principal towns asking their co-operation. JDunedin, Bth April. The Victorian official agent of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in his report states that though he has as yet made no canvass 80 exhibitors have applied for and paid for space. He estimates Victoria will require 60,000 feet of apace, or about double that occupied by the same colony at the Adelaide Exhibition. An appeal is being made for funds to build a Nurses' Home in connection with the Hospital. It is being well responded to, and .£905 has already been subscribed. A publio appeal is to be made to raise the required amount, .£l5OO. This Day. The Exhibition Commissioners, by a majority of two, have confirmed Mr. Towsey's appointment as musical director. Greymouth, Bth April. At a meeting of shareholders of the Blackball Coal Company at Christohuroh to-day, at Warner's Hotel, it was unanimously resolved to oommonoe the work of opening the new mine and oonstruoting a railway. The news of the resumption of work on the Midland Eailway created a joyous feeling in town this afternoon. Gisbokne, Bth April. An enquiry has been held on the stranding of the brigantine Clansman. The evidence will be forwarded to Wellington. The vessel has been abandoned by the underwriters. It was insured for .£7OO in the New Zealand Company. The coal was also insured in the same office. Tiharu, This Day. Fragments of largo bones, one recognisable as part of a tibia, were obtained in a blast in the tunnel of the North Mull quarry underneath Dolegite-street.