GENERAL TELEGRAMS UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1894, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Attjkla.ni), 30th August. At the half-yearly meeting of the dolegates of the Hibernian A C. Benefit Society for New Zealand, the balance-sheet showed that .£270 had been paid away in funeral allowances, and a hope was expressed that the next half-year would show a lowered rate of mortality. The credit balance to the general fund was .£2983, and to the oredit of the management fund £G6. At a meeting of the Central Wairoa Gumdiggers' Union the Seoretary reported an interview he had with two members of the Hobson County Council re county contracts being let to British subjects only. The Chairman of the Hobßon County Counoil assnred the Seoretary of his sympathies with his own people, and promised to bring down a resolution at the next meetiog of the County Counoil to the effeot that all county contracts in future be let to British subjects only. This Dat. A petition to the Legislative Council is being signed by the men employed on the small coastal steamers against the portion of the Shipping and Seamen's Bill which relates to the manning of such vessels. Large numbers of natives are gathering, at Kihikihi for the tangi over the remains of Tawhiao. Hokitika, 30th Augnst. The shareholders in the Equitable Insuranoe AsßOoiation on the West Coaßt, to meet the wishes of the late directors, who say they court enquiry, are petitioning Parliament for an exhaustive examination, with power to take evidence on oath and demand the production of all books and documents. The petition has been already signed by shareholders representing 30,000 Bhares. Dunedin, 30th August. ' Andrew Settie, for obtaining goods off the Railway Department by alleged false pretences, was acquitted at the Supreme Court. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but sentence was deferred, in the oase of James Alsford and James Russell, for stealing a platinum trough from the New Zealand Drng Company s works. As a result of the robbery the works are stopped for six months, a number of men have been thrown out of work, and the manufacture of sulphurio acid oannot be resumed until another trough is imported from England. Thib Day. Alsford was to day sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, and Russell to four years'. A mam named James Bart, with several aliatea t was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was about to leave for Sydney under engagement to the Pastoralists' Union. He is charged with robbery at Anderson's Bay, Roslyn, Caversham, and Mosgiel. He was wearing a coat stolen at Mosgiel, and some of the proceeds of other robberies were found in ills Bwra.£T. FEiiiDiNO. "Hris Day. A. Hiokford was reported to have been drowned in the Oroua River last night, but has been found hidden in a haystaok. He bad been in the water. He is now in oustody.