LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 58, 10 March 1886, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS.

Wellington. Parliament, which at present stands prorogued to March 15th, will be called together early in May provided there is no dissolution, and it is understood that the Government will not ask for a dissolution. It has been stated that the Wellington Exhibition will result in a loss of £10,000. The Government, however, are very reticent on the subject, and will not say more than that there is a losa, but it is not yet known how much, aa the accounts have not yet been made up. It is understood that the steamers Australia and Zealandia were bought by the Oceanic Company to run between Honolulu and Japan. Considerable trade is cropping up with Japan via Hawaii. Ross. There was a good deal of excitement this morning over another extension in the United Company's auriferous wash. Another shaft put down this morning proves the leader to be 98 feet in width and as thick as ever, with out showing any signs of giving out. CIIEISTCHUKCU. A deputation headed; by Mr D. Reese M.H R., waited on the Premier to-day re unemployed question. Mr Stout denied that men on relief works were paid higher in other parts of the Colony. The idea cf the establishment of a Bank of issue to relieve the depression was absurd. The Government would not give more than the wages already offered, but he promised to ascertain if single men could not be employed on the New Plymouth railway, and if the Stella could not take some men to Napier, where a large drainage contract is being carried out. At the University Senate the report of tha examiners for the Bowen prize essay recommended that tbe prize be awarded for the essay distinguished by the motto, " Cavendo Tutus," the writer of which proved to be Edward Hayter Cox, au Undergraduate of St. John's College. It was decided that the University Senate, at its rising, adjourn to meet at Wellington on tho last Wednesday in February, 1887.