WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8020, 6 August 1887, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[BY telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENT.^ Wellington,' Friday. ROADS THROUGH NATIVE LANDS. The Hon. Mb. Ballascb is heard of from Opunoke. He is reported as having informed a number of interviowera that he waa in hopes that £60,000 would be available for unopened roads through native lands, BRAVE DEEDS. The majority of the medals sent by the Royal Humane Society of Australia go to the province of Auckland. The silver medal of the Society goes to a Kanaka named Earangi, a native of tho Cook Islands Group, who was employed on board the Sybil in Rarotonga Harbour, and saved the life of the master. A bronze medal is awarded to each of the following persons, residing at the Thames, for saving life in the Caledonian Mine :—F. Rowe. T. G. Reid. 8. Hancock, J. Humphrey, William Campbell, J. Riok»rd, William Cohen, J. Laws, B. Parker, Joseph Dunn, Charles Manly, J. McGuinness, Casley, Hill. A request has been made that these medals shall be presented to the men to whom they have been awarded in as public a manner as possible. A bronze medal has also been awarded to William Page for an act of gallantry in jumping off tho Qaeenstreet wharf, Auckls- d, and saving the life of a person named Nicholas, having succeeded in carrying the drowning man whilo insensible to the ship. THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING y OFFICE. S Thirty-two printers have been discharge from the Government Printing Office. Dp Newman in his speech last night, said that; this waa done by order of the Colonial Secretary. The Hon. Mr. Buckley has given me a copy of the following letter, from Mr. Didsbury, tho Government Printer i denying the statement. The letter is addressed to Mr. Cooper, Undersecretary • —There is not the slightest foundation for the statement made by Dr. Newman in hie speech, last night, respecting the recent die* onarges in the Government Printing Office. I am alone responsible for these discharges.' supernumerary hands are engaged and discharged by me according to the exigencies of the work in hand, and in erercuing that function I had recently to make large reductions in the supernumerary staff, pending the aieeting cf next Parliament. The Colonial Secretary gave no order in the matter, nor interfered in any way with the reductions I found it necessary to make."