GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8964, 23 August 1892, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington*, Monday.. Last night, the opening night of Mr. E. Tennyson Smith's thirteen days' mission, the Opera House was packed, numbers being refused admission. The Commissioner of Taxes has received a remittance of £27 10s 6d forwarded anonymously by an owner who had, in consequence of an oversight, omitted to pay his full contribution to the property tax. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Typographical Society, the report submitted by the Board of Management was of a satisfactory character generally, but regret was expressed that the depression in trade and the almost exclusive use of boy labour in many establishments throughout the district had been the means of flooding the market with compositors seeking employment, who had been temporarily provided for at the Government printing office. The Board also expressed the opinion that the supply of compositors was increasing at a rate not justified by the ordinary requirements of the trade, and they feared that many of the rising generation of printers would at the end of their apprenticeship find their occupation gone. There was a balance of £29 in hand on the half-year's working, Mr. J. Rigg was elected president; H. C Jonas, vice-presi-dent ; Mr. W. McGirr, secretary. . At a conference of the Builders' and Contractors' Associations of Mew Zealand, the conditions in Government contracts were reviewed, and a number of amendments suggested in them as well as in the Bills now before Parliament affecting trade. It was decided to urge the introduction of an arbitration clause both in the Conciliation Bill and in Government contracts, also to insert a clause tHat during a strike the revisions of the contract remain dormant, t was decided to form a " Federated Builders' and Contractors' Association" for New Zealand.

Donkdin, Monday. , Mr. Farnie, of the Labour Bureau, has selected 26 men of the unemployed to go to the Otago Central works, those chosen being married men with large families. He believes that 100 or so who waited on him this morning comprise nearly the whole of the unemployed. News has reached town of the robbery of £400 worth of amalgam from Sew Hoy's claim. ■ -