LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1215, 14 June 1895, Page 20

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Dunedin, June 11. The Prohibition League has passed a resolution that the attention of the Minister of Defence be directed to the remarks of Messrs J. Turnbull and R. Cuthbertson, J.P.’s at Invercargill, in the Hewitt case, reflecting serioiisly on the conduct of the police in employing a special detective to obtain evidence of sly-grog selling, and that he be asked to take such steps as will support the police iu the action taken by I hem in this case. The action of the Dunedin Licensing Committee in refusing all eleven o’clock licenses was commended. The Unemployed Relief Fund, raised by public subscription, now exceeds .£BOO. About 100 men out of work met the committee this morning, and 30 of the most necessitous were selected to commence work on the Queen’s Drive and the Town Belt to-morrow. The committee hope to start, anothet batch of 30 on Thursday. Auckland, June 11.

At a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council a circular was received from the Dunedin Knights of Labour regarding the issue of a colonial newspaper in the interests of labour. The secretary was instructed to reply informing the Dunedin Knights that the Council cannot entertain the scheme as it Had already (in conjunction with other labour councils in the Colony) a similar scheme under consideraJntelligence has been received from Hamilton, Waikato, that Mr Laurence Cussen, district surveyor, has returned from Galatea and Rotorua after interviewing the Uriwera Natives. Ho goes back to Ufiwera immediately with his party to Carry on the trig survey of the district, to which the Natives have agreed. 1 Messrs Maepherson and Boynton wrote to the Charitable Aid Board stating that they did not intend in a pievious offer regarding a night refuge to convey the impression that they desired to start the refuge by private subscriptions. They asked the Board to reconsider the position. The Board resolved to adhere to their previous resolution that they would be prepared to subsidise private efforts. Thames, June 11.

John darken and his wife, Mary Ann darken, were arrested to-day, charged that they did kill and slay a child named Elizabeth Clarken, aged two years. The accu.sod. havo beeu remanded till the 19fch instant. This is the outcome of the inquest on the child held on 16th May. [At the inquest it was sought to show that the child'died of neglect.] WAiMArii, June 11.

At the usual weekly executive meeting of the New Zealand Workers’ Union it was decided that a branch of the Society should bo established at Inland Pa tea. A letter was received from Blenheim stating that in order to drive men into the towns and swell the number of unemployed there, the Awatero stationholders had put up a notice intimating that after June Ist swaggers would not be fed by them.