TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7540, 15 August 1902, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

iPEB PBHSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, August 14. A deputation from the .Tailors* and Tailordsses' Conference waited upon the Hod. Hall-Joneß, and placed before him resolutions with regard to the establishment of a State clothing factory, and to made binding on Auckland an award Bubscibed 10 in other centres by Unions and masters. A deputation represent* ing small tailors desired the Minister to stop the practice of travellers, who take chart measurements in the country districts and have suits made up in factories. The Minister promised to give the matters consideration. I Oauabu, August 14. I Mr John Buckley, on behalf of his i lately decsaeed nnelp, Mr John Mc- , Lean, of Redeastlc, has made an offer of £250, tbe full amount required to be paid by the Borough Council as its share of the cost of the Post Office clock. Auckland, August 14. At a meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, it was deoided to draw tbe attention of the Minister for Justice to several drastio sentences inflicted in the Supreme Court, and ask him to bring in a bill fixing an age Hmi', i»ot exceeding 65 years, for retiring judges. Masteetok, August 14. The body of Heeney, the missing patient from the Masterton Hospital, was found in tbe Ruamahunga River to-day. His hands were tied together with a shoe lace. This had evidently been done by himself. Dunbdik, August 14. Several bakers were prosecuted by the police for selling short weight bread, and were fined with costs. Oamaru, August 15. Mrs Shields, of Pott Chalmers, who was found unconscious in the train yesterday, died in the hospital She had been in bad health for some time. Dunbdin, August 15. At a meeting of the El Dorado Dredging Company, discussion Was very heated as to the conduct of the directors in permitting Secretary Branigan to leave thb country after knowing he had dftfraudea the Company of £600. Branignn is now in Melbourne, and the directors bave been instructed to bring him b ck