GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 38, 13 August 1895, Page 2

G EN ERA L TELEGRAMS

« | PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Chribtohuroit, 12th August. At a pnblio meeting to-night, oonvened by tho Prohibition League to consider the Licensing Bills, the following resolution was carried:— "That the meeting regards the promised features of tho new lioensing Bill as undemooratio and unfair in its refusal to submit to tho people without restriction the fate of the drink trade, and iv its trimming devioes to ensuro tho splitting of the Temperance vote." This Dat. Thoro was another fall of enow on the Port hills last night. The weather to-day is oold but fine. Auckland, 12th August. It is reported that the Auokland Rope, Fibre, and Matting Company's works, the property of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, has been disposed of to a syndicate, whioh has also purchased two Southern rope companies' properties in Dunedin and InveroargiU. Twenty-five men have received notice of dismissal. Thn establishment of a Chamber of Mines is oontemplatod. Dunidin, 12th August. The hills round the oity had a fresh ooating of snow this morning, and rain and hail fell during the day.