NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7862, 18 May 1886, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee Peebs Association.] AUCKLAND, Mat 17. The boot manufacturers have again declined to re-open negotiations with the Operatives’ Union, but offer to receive men at the factories to-morrow on a statement and resolution limiting employment to boys. In the case of Robert Jenkinson, of the Auckland Harbour Board, a phase of the embroglio of the railway reclamation wall, a verdict was given for plaintiff for £584. Costs on the highest scale were allowed. PEILDING, Mat 17. sharp shock of earthquake occurred yesterday morning about 4 o’clock. WELLINGTON, Mat 17- _ The Appeal Court was occupied to-day in hearing argument in re Miles, Archer and Co. v. Hoare, et uxor (Christchurch). It is not yet concluded. At the nomination to-day for a Director of the Government Insurance Association, Messrs G. S. Graham and G. Y. Shannon were the only two nominated. The net amount collected here for the Taiaroa relief fund is .£2OB 7s, which has been divided as follows: —Mrs M'Phee, Margaret Hill, and Annie Morrison, all of Dunedin, .£33 each; and the balance, £lO9 7s, to Mrs Hawkins, of Wellington. BLENHEIM, Mat 17. The census of the Marlborough Provincial district is 11,179 against 9378 in 1881. The Wairau electorate has increased from 4494 to 6036. The Picton electorate has decreased from 8707 to 3529. ' NELSON, Mat 17. A man named Daniel Maloney, who was 1 charged with stealing a pony belonging to Mr Harvey, of Wakapuaka, was to-day j committed for trial. The charge is that' ■ prisoner took the pony on the morning of April 25, and rode it without a saddle through Ilia Valley, Havelock, and Wairan. to the Hanmer Plains, a distance of 200 miles. The pony was utterly done up when Maloney was arrested on May 1 at the Waiau. DUNEDIN, Mat 17. .At a preliminary meeting of policy- • holders of the Anatrali&n Mutual Provident Society, it was decided to hold, another meeting to consider the Directors’ proposal to establish a London agency. In consequence of a representation from Colonel Sargood, from Auckland,_ that' united efforts were almost certain to ensure success against the French designs on the New Hebrides, the following telegram has been sent to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Synod at Auckland:— "The Synod may depend on the hearty and united support of the Dunedin community in protesting against the French annexation of the New Hebrides. —(Signed) John Babnes (Mayor), William S almond (Moderator of the Synod), Robert Scott (Rear-Admiral).”