TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 4 May 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; V F.Li critic ••''-■■•''•.f;pir./ >■■■. Pkr United Press -Ax^oiatiox. . Westport, 4. Th« coal export for the. week euded Saturday was 4,586 tons. J^ - The return 1 •froih the Fairmaid G.M.Co., for the week was 81 ouuces of amulgam. ; DUNEDIN, 2. < ap:.'. .»i JJ.'idcs, who was in charge ; oi :ht» Wiii. t.kii when sho stranded, is ! «lisuiihS^t! from Mj<- Union Company's I service. ■ ( ' „. CHRISTckuRCH, 8. This afternoon Bishop Julius addressed Unionists iv the Cathedral which was crowded. Hh professed himself a Socialist, hut said no system of socialism would be successful witb> out righteousness. Wellington, 2. Government considers the report of the Imperial officers' exonerates Cap tain Falconer from hlaujtj for the Shelly Bay explosion, bijt disc'oses laxity in the Defence Department in not seeing that officers h^cj instructions from the War office propfcrly 'fOrw'ardtid to them. The question jof; a responsib'e head as 1 -. -'Suggested is already ono of the reformat- in the De» partment which it h proposed to sub' mit to Parliament. Th.i Public.;, Trust ha vefsenl % . copy of Hie taken so lar to Government. \ JFrbni'*lt}its it appears that officers . are in the habit of attending auction 'sales ordered by trustees and buying up which they have been -allowed to appraise before-hand. Certain articles of value have been found io be missing. This has no.t beeu dons with real property but on the other hand, agents entinsted With . .the sale have been prevented from buying such property themselves. The system of book-keeping is cumbrous, inconvenient and i)niutelligible. No interim report has been sent in and the Commissioners intend to pursue the enquiries till they are in a position to send a full reportto !the Governor. Both Government and Commission ioo)t upon the practices disclosed in the Public Trust Office in a serious light, and it was in order to have them. stopped that the Commissioners forwarded evidence up to Government. Besides Hamerton and Wilson, De Castro, chief clerk, McGinie, accountant, and Roualdson, clerk, were called upon to explain their conduct, both in buying articles at auction belonging to Trust and in regard to the administration bTcei'tain estates, par. ticularly one.in which some two years elapsed before an account was rendered to those interested. The replies v ere received to-day and will be considered by the Cabinet on Monday. .. Census returns* for the Hutt county: —^males, 6,216 ; females, 5,557, total 11,773. "In" this are included the boroughs of Peione", 2,175 ; Onslow, 979; Meirose. 1,204; and Lower Hutt town district, 1,817, "• ■ ■

The Solicitor-General Lag been formal ; y instructed to institute proceedings iv re Judge! Edward's. . 'Buckley will appear in court with Siout and Yogel; junr. ; '