GENERAL TELEGRAM

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 120, 22 May 1895, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAM

Iprihs association.) Auckland, 21st May. A nnniber of oarpentorß, bricklayers, and Jl&sterors waited upon tho Hon. William ennings, M.L.C., and asked him to reprer sent to the Premier the desirability of getting t the Auxiliary Asylum at Auckland, recently t destroyed by fire, re-erectod on the cos operative principle. The deputation reprei, sented about 100 men. The Premier to-day i replied as follows:— "Tho application to have tho work done as suggested will receive the favourable consideration of the Government, and I will bring the matter before my colleagues. Instructions have been given to have tho plans and specifications prepared forthwith." It ia stated that two natives named Here3 maia Hiku and Eremihia have been arrested beyond Kaikohe, charged with ohild-Btealing. c At the Magistrate's Court this morning, in the case brought by the Offioia.l Assignee in . Bankruptcy against James Whitolaw, a . bankrupt, for not having kept such books of , aooouuts as were usual and proper, the 1 defendant was committed for trial. Waimatb, 2Ut May. At a meeting of the Kxeoutive of the New Zealand Workers' Union, a resolution was passed asking the Government to legislate in the direction of preventing stationholdera from calling their Bhenrera" rolls at publiohouses during the shearing time. This custom ib prevalent in the M'Kenzie Country and other places throughout New Zealand. ! Napier, This Dat. r The Hawkes Bay Education Board dei olined the application of the Roman Catholio ' Bishops that the Board's Inspector be " allowed to examine tbe Catholio schools in tho district, on the gionnd that the time at * the disposal of the Inspector is already fully occupied.