GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

' [by tklegraph. —press ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. Two additional cases of typhoid fever in the city were reported to-night). The amount of the city sinking fund in March was £144,232. Captain Whitney interviewed the Premier to-day regarding the contract to supply the whole of the rifle ammunition required by the colony. The contract is nearly completed. A protracted inquiry into the burning of the Union Hotel, Pahiatua, ended by the jury disagreeing and being discharged by the coroner. Mr. Hogg, president of the Wellington Bakers' Union, waited on the Benevolent Trustees regarding the statement made by an applicant for relief at the previous meeting, that her husband had been struck off the roll of the Union, because he could not pay his subscription of 6d per week. Mr. Hogg said the man had during the past three years paid his entrance fee (£1), and 3s in subscriptions, and was finally removed solely on account of misconduct. They had dozens of men on their books who were unable te pay, and they used their funds almost solely in helping distressed family. New Plymouth, Wednesday. Three bakers were fined each 40s and costs 7c l , this morning, in the Magistrate's Court, for making bread short weight and selling it. Grkymooth, Wednesday. Dr. Charles Morice was appointed Resident Surgeon and Dispensing Superintendent of the Grey River Hospital this evening. The salary is £300 a year. Dunedin, Wednesday. At a, meeting of the City Council, a motion to add a clauso to all contracts providing for the payment of a "living wage" was disposed of by moving the previous question, which was carried by a majority of one. The Labour Day Committee passed a resolution approving of the suggestion of the Labour Conference to have Labour Day made a statutory holiday on some day in the second week of October in each year.