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New Zealand Mail, Issue 869, 26 October 1888, Page 17

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Grkymouth, October 24. A letter from Okarito condemns tha beach dredgers there as not being powerful enough for the work they have to do. Tenders are called here for the construction of a dredge pontoon for a claim on the South Beach. Christcuurch, October 24. Wilson, the Salvationist captain, was released from Addington Gaol to-day. Two hundred Salvationists, with a band, met him outside the gaol, and escorted him to Cathe-dral-square, where they hold an open-air seivice in the presence of a large crowd. Mr E. Mitchelson left for the South this morning. He estimates the cost of repairing the Sunnyside Asylum at £IO,OOO. Harvey and Palmer’s drapery shop at Lyttelton has been broken into. 'I he thief entered through a window, and £3 15s in cash and some small articles were stolen. This afternoon Mr Justice Ward dismissed, with costs, an application to make the Directors of the Waihau Goldmining Company guilty of misfeasance in connection with the Sum of £2OOO, which it was sought to make them repay to the Company. Timaru, October 24. A little girl, aged two years, and named Coulter, strayed from her home at South Rangitata on Tuesday, and was found dead among the tussocks four miles from home at noon to-day. Tuesday night was very cold and wet, and it is conoluded that the poor child died from exposure. She was missed on Tuesday evening, but search parties failed to find her until 12 to-day. The sad occurrence has cast quite a gb>om over the Rangitata and Geraldine districts. Auckland, October 24. The two men, McMahon and Hayter, charged with damaging property at the Onehunga reservoir oontraot early on Sunday morning last, were fined 10s each, and costs at the Police Court. They pleaded that they had gone in the night to ascertain the depth of water in the reservoir, as they would not be permitted by the contractor to see it daring the day, and they were ratepayers having an interest in the man. Mr John Murray, who baa held the position of Inspector df the Bank of New Zealand

for satrib' tArte, has been appointed to the office of general m'aifiager of that institution, A mail named Emartrtei A'mO’s,- foYmefiy residing in Wellington district, arid employed bushfelling in the Waikato, died suddenly on Friday last. He had suffered from in* juries received by a fall of earth at Wellington.

/ No further progress has been made in the negotiations to settle the difficulty between thd Bootmakers’ Union and Messrs Garrett Bros, in respect £0 that firm’s employing boy labour. The firm Ha 3 art far ignored the communications of the TrddeS aud Labour Council, and it is understood have tsiken on some more non-Union hands. As the Union is equally persistent in asserting its claims, the dispute is not likely to he settled for some time to come. Public interest in the bootmakers' strike has lessened, and several £)f the strikers have gone to Sydney. Dunedin, October 24. A preliminary meeting is to be held tomorrow, convened by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to consider whether the project of holding an exhibition in Dunedin in December next year is practicable.