Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10012, 10 June 1895, Page 3

Telegraphic.

I.PER UNITBD PEESS ASSOOIATION. Palmebston North, Saturday. The Empire Hotel at A..hursb was burnt down at 3 a.m. It was occupied by Mr W. Sheehy. When the fire was discovered it had too gieat a hold to hs extinguished, Insurances— £9oo in the Phoenix, Palatine, and Standard; loss, £400 above tbat. Wellington, Saturday. . Tbe manager and other officers of the Midland Hallway Company have resigned their positions and taken service under the Government. All the takings are being lodged to the publio account. The ' Government is advised that there is sufficient authority under the Act to , proceed with the works, bnt as the com*. • pany decline to hand over the plans.Treah , surveys will have to be made. , A stockman named John Lawrence , Young, aged 46, employed at Meears j Freeman, Jackson and Co.'s, died sud« , denly this morning from heart disease. Later. In the case Black and another v. the t Government Insurance Commissioner, 1 decided in the Supreme Court to-day tbe , prlnolpal question was whether an appor- ( tionment once made could be revoked, j and a new appointment made. The Chief r Justice held that nnder the Act of ISB4 a ] hnsband conld not revoke any apportion- 1 ment he might have made by an endorse- . ment on a polioy, except in oase of an | appointment by will. In the case in _ question, in November, 1884, by endorse- i ment the hnsband apportioned to his wife j one shilling, and to his children the re- . malnder pf the snm assured with all g bonus additions. An Instrument subsequently revoking this apportionment was ineffective both as to tbe wife's . portion and as to that of the children. Certain costs oi esoh party were ordered •*■ to be paid ont of the funds. 5 Sunday. ' The Premier returned lo Wellington 8 , by the Penguin from Lyttelton this after- ** soon. c Two young men named Andrew and J David Kennedy were arrested last night on a oharge of causing grlevons bodily r harm to one Louie Smith, who was ad- " mitted to the hospital a day or two ago, c suffering from burns. It is alleged that 8 the accused attempted to force their way ? into a Chinaman's, in which Smith was living, and thatin the struggle a kerosene ° lamp hold by Smith upset, resulting in ? her clothes- catching fire. It is not un- , likely that two others now in gaol will be also oharged with the offence. r Chkistchukch, Saturday, l A deputation of representatives from [ the local bodies waited on the Premier to- B day in respect to the unemployed ques- ( tion. After the object had been stated r by the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr Seddon ( Bald lt was for those present to state r what was proposed to be done, and the ] attention of tbe Government would be j, given to the matter. Nearly all the „ members ot the deputation spoke, sng- j gesting what they thought would relieve i tbe distress, after which Mr Seddon made i a long reply, In tbe course of which he v stated the local bodies had a duty to per- - form lo assisting the unemployed, else I why did they accept _üb_ldles on rates . and charitable aid contributions, &c. So t far as tbe law allowed and the finances c permitted, the Government would do its , nest, as it had been doing, he asserted, c in its co-operative works, alternative * system, and the purchase of private and *. native lands. Sunday. ] The Canterbury Typographical Asso- i elation have instructed tbelr secretary to t writo to Sir P. Buckley in .upport ol the j scheme of the Wellington Association for t tbe employment of se.Blonal hands in the | Government Printing Office. * A deputation from the committee of the ■ •proposed industrial exhibition waited on ; tbe Premier on Saturday evening and | asked for a grant frora tbe Government to < the extent of £1000. The deputation laid , stress on tbe crowing interest evinced by ■ the publio in local manufacture, and the good done by exhibitions, and reminl.d { the Premier that though a good many thousands were spent by the Government on exhibitions Iv Wellington and DunediD, so far not one penny had been expended in Q.nterbory. The Premier expressed his personal sympathy with tbe soheme, and requested that formal application with full particulars should be sent to him, when he undertook to bring the question before the Cabinet. A depntatlon alao waited on tbe Premier snd asked him to legislate in the direotion of giving power to have men and women convicted of vagrapcy medically examined, and if found to ba suffering from contagions disease to be committed to the Lock hospital till cored. Mr Seddon undercook to bring the matter nnder the notice of tbe Minister of Justice. Invbecaroill, Saturday. At the Magistrate's Court Mr Poynton committed Minnie Dean for trial for the murder of Dorothy Edith Carter, and discharged Charles Dean. He said there was no evidence at all against) Dean, and that he left the Court without a stain on his character. The police were, however, i"_.Btified iv arresting him, as they did to. ;nOiV what evidence might crop up. He thought where the husband and wife live together, and the bodies were found buried iv their garden, it was quite within reason tbat the police should suspect the husband ot being connected, and bed there been nny evidence against him at all he wonld certainly bave committed him. Mr dan 100, solicitor for the accused, admitted tbe pol.ee acted fairly, and were entitled to credit for the way they had worked up the case. Dean shook hands with his solicitor and left. His wife will be tried at the sitting of the Supreme Court, opening on Tuesday next,