TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6912, 16 July 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

IPBB UNITED PRBBB ASSOCIATION. 1

Auckland, Tuesday.

I Fourteen hundred persons have signed a petition to the Hospital Committee in favor of an homoeopathic ward. Ooe of the medical staff haa lodged a formal protest. Edward Bidleton was committed for trial, to-day on two charges of passing valueless cheques. Mr Dodson, presidont of the Seamen's

Union, Dunedin, ad dressed'' the Auoklancf branch last night. He. referred to the success of the Union in' the South, and ! counselled the Auckland branch to securetheir objects by peaceable means rather | than by strikes, which were injurious. Wellington, Tuesday. The Government have received a cable-' gram from the Agent-General stating that a further conversion of New Zealand stock has been negotiated at satisfactory prices. Timaetj, Tuesday. A little before 8 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the Education Board's book depot in the Government buildings, and everything was destroyed. The probable loss will be £150 worth of the Board's property, and about the same of the private property of the secretary, which were uninsured. It 18 supposed that the fire originated in the embers of last night's tire. Dunedin, Tuesday. A man named Neil M'Lean had his leg broken and his head injured to-day by the fall of some debris in the Port Chalmers quarry.