SECOND EDITION. LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 84, 11 April 1901, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. LATEST TELEGRAMS.

— » [press associations AUCKLAND, This Day. Tho Auckland builders have resolved by a large majority to take the dispute with their employees to the Arbitration Court. They received a deputation from the biicklayers' labourers, and agreed to reduce the hours 'of the men to 44 per week and increase their pay to Is an hour. v « Ethol Stanley, eighteon years of age,, left her parents' residence at Te Aroha un Good Friday eveniU-g, dressed in a light muslin dress and house shoes, and she has not been seen since. Searchpiutiea are out, but have found no clue io her whereabouts. The body of a man unknown has been found ujider the cemetery bridge. It is evidently a case of suicide. In his pocket was found a paper on which was written — • Uoocl-bye to the world. I am bad." Deceased L:J apparently jumped' from thebridge and fallen about 100 ft. -STRATFORD, This Day. At - the instigation of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Symes, M.H.R., has telegraphed to tlie Minister of Mines stating! that it was most necessary that the Cqa-i Commissioners should visit the Whangdmomona coalfields before returning! to Wellington. •' DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. J. A. Law, of the firm of Henderson, Law and Co., is dead. At the conference representing the Tailoring Trades Union of . the South Island, which lias been sitting hejre sineo Saturday, it was 'resolved — "That as the Government requires a large quantity of clothing for tho Post Office and railway ollicials and the Defence De-i partmeui, Ministers should bo urged to establish Government tailoring workshops in one of the chief centres of the colony. " ,[OTJIt OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. U. R. Chapman, who gave £100 to the Free Library fund, has also given a donation of £25 to the Queen's statue fund. Mr. Chapman's candidature for thoMayoralty is announced.