TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7533, 6 May 1903, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Pres-* Association) FREEMASONS.

Auckland, Last Night The annual communication of tho Grand Lodge of- Freemasons was heid to-day, when the officers for the comin°* year were elected and installed. The reports showed that tho cash balance at Ihe end of April, IS9I, was £72, but at the end of April. 1903, the cash balance totalled £G,38;l Included in this was the fund of benevolence, with a credit of -£2,91-1; the Masonic uidows' and orphans' fund. £1.021; and the aged and indigent Masons' hind, £1243. ' MIKING. Underground work has been slopved at the Wailekauri (Waihi) mine, in consequence of a lire destroying the enginehouse and the winding aiid pumping machinery. Dunedin-, Last Night. The Waikaka United Co. obtained 330z 2dwts from No. 1, and 21oz 9dwts troiu JXo. 2 dredge. The Bsrewood reefs. Strath-Taieri, are being worke again to advantage. Sixty tons were crushed during the past four weeks, and viehled Csoz 15dwts. Gold crashing only could be earned on during the week owing to snortness .-f water. PACIFIC CABLE. Wellington. Last Night. Ihe Pacific Cable Board has requested the Postmaster-General to pl-ice one or two of the departmental officers at its disposal for the purpose nf canvassing for business. Sir Joseph Ward concurs m tnis being done, and the first steps were taken in-3Wellington to-day. COMPENSATION. The Government having taken over certain properties contiguous to the •General Post Office, to permit an extension of that building. Jed to a claim being made on the Crown by the City Council for £'15,000, tho value of the freehold and unexpired value of leases held by dispossessed tenants. The case came before the Compensation Court to-day, and judgment was given for the claimants for £11,*305. A RISE. Chiustcuuucii, Last Night. At a meeting of the Christchurch D'-am^e Bor.rd to-day the chairman, Mr R. I itcaitlily. put a motion increasing the engineer's salary to £050 and' declared it carried. ACCIDRNT. The Wave,-carrying H. Collin-- at the Ohristciiurch Hunt Club inec(iu«* at Lawford to-day. f„ll at a tricky fence and broke lus nock. Collins sustained concussion of the brain, but- recovered consciousness at the hospital.