GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 126, 24 November 1899, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PIiESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 23rd November. At the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Conolly, iv dealing with a prisoner who stole goods from some Queen-street shops, said the exposure of goods for sale outside shops was a temptation to crime. The City Council should pass a bylaw to make it illegal to do so. The All Nations Fair in aid of the fund for building a hall for the Natives' Association realised £400. At the Te Avvamutu Court two young men named Scott and Ryeburn, for having assaulted tlm Rev. Dr. Hoskiug, a candidate lor the Waikato seat, by throwing flour at liim, were eaoh fined 10s and costs. The llnv. L. Fitzgerald, vicar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church, has tendered his resignation to the Primate, Bishop Cowie. He had leave of absence on account of ill-health, but as the time approached for 'lire resumption of duty, the rev. gentleman lelt that he- had not sufliicently improved to lake up work. On consulting a doctor he was informed that his heart was seriously affected, and \xn* told that in his own interest he should not return to his labours in Auckland. Uis resignation has been accepted with regret. J)ITNEDIN, 23rd November. ■ The Rev. A. North ha? decided to accept au invitation from the Ciroular-road Baptist Church, Calcutta. At a meeting of manufacturers and others to-day, after a speech by Mr. IS. Brown, President of the Wellington Industrial Association, it was resolved that those present, with the Industrial Committee of the t Chamber of Commerce, form themselves into .-m Industrial Association on the basts of kindred bodies in other centres. AUCKLAND, This Day. The gold returns for the present month to hand show a total of £55,465. The death is aunounced of Mr. C. F. Mitchell, proprietor of the Hauraki Tribune, published at Paeroa— one of the pioneers of the Ohinerauri goldfields— aged 82. The cutter Ettie White, which was found by the steamer Waimana in the Bay of Plenty — the two men who formed the crew having lost their way ou the voyage to Samoa after the death of the captain at sea — has put into Mercury Bay on account of a westerly gale. The "crew state that the captain died at the wheel. The following are the crew of the trawler Wolverine, which left Whangaroa on 21st October and has not since been reported : — Captain M'Arthur; Captain Williamson, Bluff, acting mate ; Miller and Scollay, A.B.s; 0. Hare, engineer ; J. Hare ; O. S. Derwick, cook. The vessel had on board 9000 feet of timber for Smith, of the Bluff. NAPIER, This Day. Fred Collins, aged 19, was found dead on the breakwater road this morning, having apparently fallen from the top of the Bluff, a distance of about 150 feet.