TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 243, 10 February 1897, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Asx'triuti'ni.) Auckland, This day. The weather continuing stormy the committee decided to postpone the meeting until 8 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Wellington, This day. A man named John James Bowdeu, aged 45, a miner, died suddenly last night. The family of the man Entwistle, concerned in the recent shooting case, have been living in a shed without lire and food and the Benevolent Trustees have had to give them assistance. The excitement about gold at Karori has so completely died out that the Reserves Committee intend to recommend the City Council to rescind a resolution allowing work to be carried on. T. Wilson, fireman, Palmerston, N. was elected to represent the local branch'at the Railway Employes Conference at Dunedin. Dt sKruN, This day. A conditional license for the Forbury and Tahuna Park race meetings was granted to-d;iy after being refused for three years. Belcher, secretary of the Seamen's Union, and Millar, former secretary and member of the Conciliation Board, leave for Wellington in connection with tlie settlement of the shipping dispute. The Chairman of the Westport Coal Company referring to the attempt to open a market in America, says that the coal is so much appreciated in Honolulu that they have received orders for -1000 tons. The net result of all these shipments has come out without actual loss and quite as favorable as they had been led to expect. Foreign markets for the company's coal has now been established, though high freights stand in the way. He hoped the shareholders would now reap reward for their enterprise and patience.