LATE TELEGRAPHIC

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8967, 18 April 1890, Page 5

LATE TELEGRAPHIC

i I (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , Auckland, April 17The recently formed Auckland Orchestral i Union gave their first concert to-night, at the Choral Hall, with great success. There were f 25 performers. Mr Payne was conductor, i The programme included Schubert’s un. finished symphony in B minor, the No. 2 : entr’acte from “ Rosamnnde,” the “Merry • Wives of Windsor ” overture, by Nicolai j i and other first class items. The Amateur Athletic Club have voted ■ £lO additional, making £2O in all, toward the expenses cf the New Zealand Athletic l team to Sydney. r Several cases of influenza have occurred at Kaitaki, in the Bay ef Plenty. The Justices of the Peace at the Thames have presented a framed address to Dr Kilgour, who is about to take up his abode in Auckland. The members of the Auckland Poultry Association, who have been considering whether the Society should be wound up, have decided that it shall continue iu existence. Certificates are, however, to be given at the annual 'shows instead of prize money. The Earl of Onslow has been appointed Patron of the Auckland Photographic Club. The Auckland branch of the Hibernian Society have presented gold crosses to the past-president and the president of the branch. Brothers D. Flynn and W. Beehan, in acknowledgment of their services to the Order. A suggestion has been made that a public testimonial in the form of an appropriate tombstone be erected at the grave of the late Henry Talbot. The racehorses Tirailleur, Aronoe’, and Volcano were shipped to Napier to-day. The delegates from New Zealand at the Wharf Labourers’ Conference were entertained at dinner last night by the Executive of the Auckland branch of the Union. Messrs Brown and Creagh replied to the toasts of the health of the delegates, and urged that the strength of the Union should , be used only in a peaceful manner. A wrong done to any branch of the Union should be considered as a wrong to the whole organisation, but they hoped that in future, ae in the past, employers and employes would work amicably. The delegates were passengers by the Manapouri for the South. It is reported by a Hamilton correspondent that the Government have ordered that work shall cease in the Taupiri coal mine. It is considered that the mine is dangerous. The property has just been handed over to the owner after having been worked by the Company for ten years. Christchurch, April 17. Mr John Joyce, M. H.R., was elected to the Board of Education in the place of Mr A. H, Cunningham, resigned. At a meeting of the Board to-day, Mr H. W. Peryman was elected chairman. Influenza still prevails. One death occurved from it to-day, that of Mr W, H. Shaw, secretary to the Land Board. He was 43 years old, an active member of the Church of England, and honorary secretary of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals. He was in weak health for several years. Dunedin, April 17. Information has been received that a young man named Alexander has been lost on the ranges near Nenthorne. A party have gone out to search for him. A plan of the proposed improvements of the Lower Harbour, to admit of the port becoming the last port of departure for the Direct steamers, was, at a meeting of the Harbour Board, referred to a committee. Wanganui, April 17. At a meeting of the Tongariro Lodge, No. 705, E.C., to-night it was unanimously decided not to suppert the Grand Lodge movement. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court finished to-day and the civil business commenced. It is expected that all the business will be disposed of by Saturday. Westport, April 17. , Thomas Dolman, late secretary of the Oddfellows’ Lodge »t Pennialon, was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day with embezzling £8 12s, the moneys of the Lodge. The accused, who admitted the charge, was remanded till Wednesday.