NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 94, 14 August 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL ITEMS

Auckland. August 13. The carpenters and builders at Waihi have determined to obtain a higher rate of wages than hitherto. At a meeting held it was resolved that all present bind themselves to work for for not less than 10s per day. As this was only a penny per hour more than carpenters are receiving in Auckland it was resolved that the increase take place forthwith. Charles J. Madigan, formerly a prominent footballer, died to-day of consumption. He was one of the New Zealand team which went to England in 1888. At a meeting of the reorganised Federated Coastal Seamen's Union it was decided to register under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. Gisbornk, August 13. Thomas George Richardson, man- ■ ager of Waipana station, for many years Government Stock Inspector in Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington and Wanganui districts, died of _ dropsy, with other internal complications, after an illness extending over ten weeks. A man named John Potts, laborer, at Toroa. was found dead in bed. His mate says that when he went to bed on the previous evening he was apparently in the best of health and spirits. He was a steady, sober man and had no illness since eight years ago, when he suffered from spasms of the heart. A verdict of death from / natural causes was returned. Brunnerton, August 13. A case has been stated against the Coal Creek Company by a father who lost his two sons in the Brunner mine. Mr Jeilicoe has been retained for the defence. Much interest is being taken by West Coasters in the case, which comes on for hearing at Hokitika on 7feh September. Dcnmm*-, August 13. Richard Walsh, licensee of the Albion hotel, was fined £6 and costs for allowing prostitutes and bad characters to loiter on his premises. IMERCARGIIA, AllgUSt 18. At an inquest touching the death of Susanna Beds, wife of a farmer, the evidence showed that she had been seized apparently with & cold and »t-

tended by Dr. Asehby, a German, v;ho recently arrived in the colony. She had <1 pu: liture birth and died shortly ,tf\i »* . The husband d-pc-ed t< *ii d'tetor told him he int< nd.->d to I t <, .ilout her confinement, us it 10 the other trouble. The evidence of t% ' < 1 doctors was taken, one -r« i 1 4 that the condition of ifccwsvsi's lung-* v. .1 •> sufficient to account for death and might have caused premature birth ; also, that the heart was weak. Dr. Asehby admitted that his diplomas were lost on the voyage to Australia. The jury found that death was caused b> di~ea>i of the lungs and hcart : ami e\pre—td the opinion that inquiries should be made concerning As c h bv's qualifications.