GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1894, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

[UNITED PRKBS ASSOCIATION. | Dunedin, 29fcli August. At a meeting to-day of the clergy of the Anglican Church in Dunedin and suburbs Bishop Neville presiding, it was resolved tc petition Parliament against any further ex< tension of the facilities for divorce, on the grounds that such are contrary to the Divine Law, inimical to the true interests of society, and calculated to create more evils than the extension would remove. The Supreme Court was engaged all daj with a case in which Wm. Bain was charged with stealing a ma,re at Hawkesburn Station, The jury, being unable to agree, were looked up for the night. This Dat. The jury in the case of Bain were discharged, being- unable to agree. A fresb trial will take place to-morrow. Gisbobnb, This Day. A native named Raopa was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque for J340 at Waeranga-a-hika. Chmstchuech, This Day. The Canterbury Industrial Association has netted a profit of £14S on the exhibition lately held here. The Exhibition Committee resolved to recommend that sums should he given to several looal charities, and the balanqe be deposited in. a separate account to assist future industrial exhibitions or be devoted towards the erection of an Industrial Hall. Yesterday's earthquake was severe in some parts of the Amuri distriot, where ohimnies were thrown down and orockerj was broken. At a meeting of the Tailors' Union, a motion was. carried protesting againat the report as to the tailoring trade at Christchurch which appeared in the annual report of the Department of Labour, as the average earnings of piece-workers are much below the amount stated. The Union considered the i method of obtaining information on these questions unfair to the workers. Oamaru, This Day. E. S. "VT. Butler, an undischarged bankrupt, was arrested at Christchurch yesterday, on a telegraphic warrant, under section 88 oi the Bankruptcy Act, on the charge of leaving the colony with a view to defeating the operation of the Act, and was admitted tc bail by the Eegistrar— himself in -£150, enc sureties of .£l5O. It ib understood that th« bankrupt was going to China or Japan tc join the navy. Auckland, This Day. A Maori woman named Paka. has beei ; committed for trial for horse - stealing a1 Drury.