TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2339, 31 January 1893, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PBBSS AS3OCUTION.) WELLINaTON, Jannaty 81. A special meeting of the Gity Council lias beld last night to appoint a unitary mgtneer to supervise the carrying out of the drainage scheme. Sixty-nine appliea* (ions, including many from Australia, were received. Ultimately, Mr. B. L. Mestayer, formerly of Manchester, and who carried oat the Shone sewerage works of Adelaide, bat is now in the service of the" New South Wales Government, was appointed. Sir. Mestayer has had great experience in drainage works, and was highly recommended by the Advisory Board, cpmprising Messrs. Ferguson, Hjgginion, and Maxwell. The council also decided that it could nct-aooept the offer of Messrs Johnston and Co. as agents of Shone to sarry out the work at the estimate, as the law provided that tenders mast be called. la reply to protests from the Baptist Association ot Canterbury and Westland, and from the Grand Orange Lodge of New Zealand, against the vote passed by the House ot Representatives toward the Mount Magdala Home, the Premier eon. - tends that questions of sectariaoif ts should not interfere with a work of pure philanthropy, such as that of the Magdala Asylum, and he cannot admit that efforts of this kind should not be supplemented by the State. The Doric left Bio on Saturday, for London. The frozen meat is in condition. .#•.■< The Mararoa, which arrived j&m Sydney this morning, brought 10$ mm. eengers for all ports. An old woman of 74, Mm. Merrie, died suddenly at breakfast, and a doc tot 'called in is of opinion that heart disease was the oause of death. -/* DUNEDIN, Jaoaarrll. . At the iDqaest touching the defctfa of Mary Connolly, who wu killed by* dra« accident, the jary returned a verdiei of accidental death, and expressed' the opinion that the aocident occurred owing to an error of judgment in takioc a vehicle with such a load down each » dangerous place.