TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3269, 5 November 1892, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC N E WS

(PER PKEBB ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, November 5. The Orangemen of Wellington have p&Bsed a resolution protesting apainßt the grant of £500 to the Magdala Home, on 4he ground tbat Btate aia to religions bodies is wrong in principle. In the B,M. Court, in the case brought by the Irish team in the Opera Hontfe tag- of- war contest against the Hon.- Mr Seddon, stakeholder, a nonsuit was entered, with £11 costs. GBEYMOUTH, November 4. The Greymonth Fire Brigade did good work at the mine fire. Two lines of boße were ran to the burning Bhaf t, It is not known how the fire started, bnt it is thought to have began at the edge of the ■haft where the pomping engines are stationed. iTbeso are fed by steam pipeß, and it ia thought tbat the fire communicated from these to the woodwork* An engine-man had just oiled ttie engines, and everything > ynkjKen safe. Half an hour after, ;<tfie*re bad a firm hold. It is now prao"ticaUy oat/ The damage cannot yet be estimated, bat it will be considerable. The mine belongs to the Grey Valley Coal Company, having been bought by them from Mr. Joseph Taylor some years ago. WOODVILLE, November 5. further hearing' of the information against William Syms has been adjourned again till November 14tb, bail being renewed. AUCKLAND, November 4. The two labour representatives chosen in this city for the roll of Justices of the Peace are Mr. T. Tndehope, Secretary of the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, and Mr. M. Sheeban, Secretary of the Irieh National Federation.