GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9238, 28 June 1893, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[by TELEGRAPH.—FRKSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Tuesday. In the cases brought by the Tax Department against Morrah proceedings were confined almost entirely to legal argument. Judgment was reserved. The unemployed will hold no more meetings for the present until they Bee what work the Labour Bureau can provide for them on the Eketahuna railway. A number of men will be sent up on Thursday. At the inquest on Brown it was shown that he had recently been in good situations but had lost them through drink. The verdict was " Death by strangulation." At a meeting of the College Governors it was announced that the Government had offered to place the sum of £2040 for the purchase of one of the college endowments, the Rangitamu block, in Wairarapa district, comprising some 5000 aores. The matter is left in abeyance for the present. The Benevolent Institute has discovered that the charge of sweating in connection with the Bhircmaking trade is unfounded. omen who have a contract from the warehouses receive b\* 6d per dozen. Out of this they pay 2s Gd per dozen for sewing articles, is 9d for button-holing, while cotton, buttons, etc., run away with another shilling, making 5s 3d per dozen. This leaves them 1* 3d per dozen, out of which they have to pay a folder, and in many cases find the machines themselves. The average wages earned by shirtmakers is from 25s to 30s. The woman who made the charges is discovered to be a very slow worker, and could nob stitch more than a dozen shirts in a week. Napikb, Tuesday. A youth named Bernard Hansen, fifteen years, was arrested at Wood villa on a charge of rape on a girl of fifteen. Christcuurch, Tuesday. At Rangiora to-day George Gorrie, a farmer, was committed for trial on a charge of a breach of the Chattels Transfer Act. Ddnedin, Tuesday. Six delegates from Dunedin will attend the Direct Veto Convention at Wellington. The Otago Rugby Union decided to-night to write to the Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, and Wellington Unions asking them whether it would be convenient for them to meet an Otago team towards the end of the season.