GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 44, 20 August 1895, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Obiss association.] Fjcildinq, 19th August. This morning a, Frenchman named Belin was oharged with burglary at the Cheltenham Hotel on the 16th lnst., and was remanded for a week. Auckland, 19th August. At a meeting of the Auckland Tradoß and Labour Council, the delegates' report on the proposed Labour paper was that the Council did not see ita way at present to entertain the idea. The Cambridge Farmers' Club hits apSointed Mr. John Fisher as its delegate to le Meat Freezing Conference at Welling, ton. Mr. Nioholaa Hunt represents the Agricultural Association. At the annual meeting of the Auokland Co-operative Boot and Shoe Company the report recommended a bonus of 2} per cent, to the employes. It was resolved to increase the capital from .£lOOO to JBOOOO. H.MTS. Goldfinoh; from Noumea, pat into Mongonui on bunday, owing to heavy weather on the coast, fche is bonnd for Auokland. Dunbdin, 19th Angust. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, it was mentioned that the severe winter had been very destructive in the interior to ducks and pukakis, and that the latter had pretty well died out. Mr. 11. M'Lean, of Bawera Flat, wrote that snow had driven the doer down to the flat, and that they were qnite tame. He had never Been such snow in Juno before. One of the stags brought from Melbourne had taken shelter in his woolshed, where it had been fed tor weeks. Bhunnbrton, 19th Angnat. The miners' allowance for ooal hewing has been reduced by 3d to 4d the ton. The notioe reads :— " The present state of trade demands that a reduction be made in all branches of labonr, in order to enable our ooal to better compete with coal now being imported into the colony."