Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10011, 8 June 1895, Page 4

Telegraphic.

9 > IPKE UMTED PKESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, Friday. The Thames battery crnshlDgs yielded for the month bullion valued ab £7963, from 2620 tons of qdartz Information has been received that) the New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Company has deolared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent for tae six months from 3 let October to 30th April. Tae residence ot Mr Smdfotd, fruiterer, Epsom, was burned down early this morning. He was insured, the bouse tor £400 in the New Zealand Office, and tbe furniture for £500 in the Norwich Union. Bessy Dißsey, Ponsonby, was charged with having a child for which she received . 7s per week, without having tbe child or Ntpcse registered nnder tbe Infant's Life Protection Act. She was fined £5 and costs 35a, or a mooch's imprisonment, Gisbobnb, Friday. The Walapu Licensing Bench held tbelr annual meeting to-diy, when all applications for renewals were granted, bat one application for a new license for an old house at Waerengaknri was refused, and a similar application for an old house at Kawakawa was adjonrned till the next quarterly meeting. In these coses the licenses lapsed through an informality last year, and the bench bold they had no power to grant fresh license", A laborer named Henry Ex worthy has been missing for a fortnight. He is suppored to have been drowned crossing a river, on the binks of which bfa horse, ■addled, was found. A cottage, owned by the Auckland » Education Board, and occupied by Mr Sdwln White, was destroyed by fire last Bight. ' William Tom Davey was committed for trial to-day on a charge of larceny fls a bailee ot a salt) of clothes, and of forgery. Wanoanui, Friday, A sad and sadden death occurred last evening, when Mr Garland W. A. Wood, a very o'd resident, fell into tho river owing lo failure of tbe heart, Mr Wood waa for 15 years clerk of the B.M. and District Court*) here, but was retrenched Id 1892. He waa the eldest son of the late Rev. William Woon, Wesleyan Methodist missionary to New Zealand and the Friendly Islands. The deceased was tbe founder of the first newspaper In New Plymouth, the Taranaki fferald. Palmkeston Noeth, Filday. At the District Conrt A, F. Lauren&on was admitted to probation for six months on a charge of failing to keep proper boons to show his financial position, and ordered to pay costs (£25). Georg Storey, charged with opeoing a letter, was admitted to probation for 12 months, and ordered to pay costs of prosecution and find one surety for £100, Wellington, Friday. In Banco this morning, before Mr Justice Rlohmond, an appeal against a cODvictiOD under ibe Shop and Shop Assistants Act was heard, Mr Hutchison, g,M,« bad in March fined W. H. Day, of Greytown North, for keeping his shop ' "** opon on Saturday, the day appointed by the Boroagb Connell for the half- holiday, and tbe decision was appealed against. Mr Skerrett, who appeared to enpporb the - appeal, submitted that "January next," where used in section 9 of tbe Act, muat be held to moan January, 1896. He ilao urged that the Borough Council meeting at which the special resolution was passed wob improperly called. Mr Chapman, for the respondent, urged that the Statute ninnt ba taken to speak from the date of the Koyfll assent. Mr Jastlce Efebmond remarked that at present be did nob thiok there was much in the first point raised by Mr Skerrett. Mr Chapman also coptended that the Council meeting was legally called. His Honor said that es tbe matter waa of general irn- • portance, tie would give a written judgment. Tbe business at tho annual meeting ol the City Licensing Committee was transActed ia eighteen minutes. All renewals and transleis were granted without opposition, although In two cases tho licensees were cautioned for permitting Sundaj trading and drinking after hours. A) licenses were fixed at 11 o'clock, and per mission was given to extinguish th< street lights at that hour. The com mittee expressed the opinion that wltt oue or two exceptions the houses ha( been fairly well conducted, and in somi Instances particularly well, and ttie cmn mittee was satisfied that tho police wer doing their duty. Two men were oharged to-uay wifci illegally taking fißh from the Wainrj river by shooting them with a gun. The; were fined £5 eaoh and costs £1 63. A case was heard in tbe Magistrate' Poart this morning (in whlcb a firm ;

;. timber merchants ausd one of their lat , employ 63 lor goods amounting io value ti £29 3i 6d, the claim being reduced to £ I " 14. 9d after allowing a set-off, ohiefi; 8 composed of deductions from wages - unionnting to £22 9j, Counsol for de f-.nid'itit submitted thit plaintiffs mna be nonsuited, as tbe claim was in contra vention of clause 7 of the Track Act 1891. Mr Martin upheld this contention and nonenited the plaintiff?. Later. The Gear Meat Company declare < ! dividnud for the half-ycai ul tbo rato o! 1 10 pit cent par annum, i .Jauiea Uuiibuty, au employe of Mi b Thoniau C'luniDj.', of the Lower Hull, commllteil aniclde to-day by hauglrj; himse'i. Tho I'ost's Havelock corresponded wires that the King Solomon's minn, CnllensvilJe, is again on heavy gold. Over lOOcz were picked np in the lasl i two days, rind the miners are still or metal. Tbe Hon. Mr Ward left England Joi 1 Canada on Satnrday last, and is expected to leave Vancouver for Auckland on the 16th instant. In the case of Walter Ugden, charged wicli attempt to defraud by means of a fictitious telegram, the jury bronght in a verdict of not guilty. John P. Donovan, charged with the theft of £15,. was found guilty and remanded for sentence. The Jast case on the calendar, a charge of murder against NicbolsoD, will be taken on Monday. At the inquest on Banbury no cause could be assigned for his suicide, and tbe ury returned a verdict that the act was committed while he was temporarily /insane. Nelson, Friday, All licenses were renewed yesterday with tbe exception of an application for the transfer of tbe Exchange Hotel to Samuel Hansen, which was deferred till the <lfcb, ot July! to which date the committee afljonmed. The objection was (hat andesuabie characters frequent the house. CHRiSTCHracn, Friday, An Inquiry with reference to the management of the Cbristcburch hospital was commenced to-day, before Dr. Giles, Commissioner. Abont 50 people were present, and several conneel were engaged on behalf of individuals and associations. A lengthy argument took placa as to the scope of the inquiry, and whether the Commissioner was authorised to snbpcena witnesses. The Commissioner said he had that authority. It was urged by counsel that the petitions cent in were not charges, but mere matters for investigation. Dr. Giles said for the purposes of tbe inquiry he looked upon them in' the light of charges against those responsible for the administration of the hospital. After certain preliminaries bad been arranged, the inquiry was adjourned till Monday. Lateb. The Premier arrived from the West Coast this evening. He will receive a deputation regarding the unemployed to-monow, sod will probably leave for Wellington at nigbt. At a meeting of delegates from various political and labor societies it was decided |to iorin an anti-Chinese League. The objects of tbe League were adopted, to the fol lowing tffeet :— To assist in all social movements, and support all legislative efforts In the direction of .restricting Chinese and other undesirable competitors in colonial labor markets by raising the poll tax on Chinese to at I least £100, by enforcing tbe inspection of premises occupied by Chiuese and other Asiatics ; by absolutely prohibiting the naturalisation of any Chinese or other Asiatics ; by urging the Government to refnse mail subsidies to any steamer or other vessel carrying as whole or part of her crew any Asiatic, Lascar, or Kanaka, and by the members pledging themselves, and indnciDg other?, not to deal with any Asiatic grower or vendor of any market able products, or with any European retailer who supplies such products, or with any trader who sells or cause; to be sold any goods, except such as could not be made by oar own workers, manufactured or produced by Chinese and other allied races. Mr A. J. White, one of tbe best-known business men in Chrlstchurcb, died early this morning after a protracted illness. Timabu, Friday. All licenses were granted and an extension granted to 11 p.m. The Key. W. Gillies, ProlilbHionlB 1 ; member of tbe committee, objected to tbe renewal of the licenses to houses having private bars, and argued that only public bars as defined by the Act were legal. He also opposed tbe extension ot hours, but was defeated by 6 to 2 on both point?. Dunedin, Friday. The Knights of Labor object to a diminution of the hours on the cooperative woiks, as accentuating rather than diminishing poverty, tbe principle being thus endorsed of taking from tbe poor to feed the poor, which la nnjnstifi" able at any time, especially in the middle of winter. The Government) were asked to reconsider tbe position. Later. : As the result of the movement to pro* vide work for the unemployed, Messrs J. M. Bltcble and K. Ramsay waited on a few firms this afternoon, when they were promised £563. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company head the list with £100, three firms give £50, and ten firms and individuals £25 each. The Premier has been communicated with, and has promised that a ' soboldy will, aa provided by law, be given on the subscriptions. It la hoped a start will be made next week in connection with tbe winter show. To-day Mr D. J. Nathan, of Welling* ton, explained his scheme for tbe extension of the frozen meat trade, speaking at some length on the general principles, ot the scheme, and was followed by Mr Orbell, who la the author of a somewhat similar consolidation scheme, bat on a less extensive scale, for dealing with the trade at the London end, A resolution was carried requesting the Government to convene a conference of delegates from the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, Farmers' Clubs, &c, to consider the present position of the meat export trade, ; and to enggest any scheme for its ira- | provemenr. i Captain Allman, Nautical Adviser to I the Government, has been engaged in mo king arrangements for holding a nautical examination at Port Chalmers. Captain J. Gray has been appointed examining officer for the ports of Otago. The winter show was brought to a close to-night, when there was a large attendance, and It la understood that the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will have a substantial surplus as the result. The challenge shields for the bestmanaged farms and the M'Nairn and Nimmo and B'alr cups for cheese and butter were presented to the winners. INVERCAKGILL. Friday. Nothing new cime oat to-day in the Police Court inquiry relative to the alleged murders by the Deans. Tbe evidence Is, bowever, a little more direct than that filveo at tbe inquest. The Court is sitting late to«night to endeavor to geb through with the charge, as the Supreme Court sittings commence on Taeiday, end it is desired to bring the accused to trial ab ozme.