TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7568, 20 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Peess Association.)

Auckland, May 19,

The Ministers' Association have passed a resolution endorsing the action of the Presbyterian Church on the New Hebrides question. Bishop Cowie convenes a meeting of the Anglican clergy for to-morrow with a similar object.

A bushman named James Billing, employed by M'Beth and M'Donald, bush contractors at Kekerangi, left his whare on Sunday, and has not since been heard of. It is supposed he is lost in the bush. A party has started in search of the missing man.

A verdict of £250 and costs was awarded by the jury against the Auckland Tramway Company in the case of Mrs James Brewen, who hurt her knee by tripping right into the trench of a line in course of construction.

At a meeting of Justices of the Peace in Auckland, re compulsory attendance of Justices in rotation, a resolution was passed in favour of appointing Stipendiary Magistrates. The estimated loss to date by the boot strike to contestants is £10,000.

Wellington, May 19. The magistrate to-day heaviiy fined two young men who had created a disturbance at the Salvation Army barracks.

Boisterous weather has again set in, this time from a N.W. direction.

In the Appeal Court the cases of Ell v. Harper and National Bank v. Mcc have been partly argued and adjourned.

A Maori named Paora Matarawhara fell into a fire during a fit at Papawai, and wa? seriously burned; his life is despaired of. In a case against the owners of steamer brought by a seaman, the magistrate allowed the wages due, and disallowed the amount claimed for work done under alleged compulsion.

Hokitika, May 19. At the Land Board meeting to-day three fresh mineral leases for working nickel deposits at Gorge river were granted. There is great confidence in its success expressed in that district.

The rumour of gold finds in Landsborougl: river, branch of the Haast, is not yet confirmed.

Christchuhch, May 19. James Davis, a labourer, who met with an accident on the ocean steamers' wharf on Monday last by being run over by a railway truck, died at the Lyttelton casual ward today, mortification having set in. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned, but the jury added a rider that-it was advisable that someone should be appointed to watch the lines while shunting was being carried on.

INYEHCARGILL, May 19.

The Havelock Hotel, Eiverton, was burnt this morning. No cause is assigned for the fire. The insurance on the house was L 350 ; furniture, L 175, both in the Union office.

A meeting of the Government Insurance policy holders is to be held on Friday night to secure united action re the election of a director, and to discuss the proposals to obtain increased representation on the directorate or hand the affairs of the association back to the Government.

A large number of unemployed workmen met the Mayor to-day; It was stated that fully sixty men were out of work. One of the men urged that work should be provided at once, as several were on one meal a day and had to walk the streets at night unless sheltered by charity. The Seaward line would suit best as a place to work, as it would not necessitate the keeping up two homes by the men employed. It was resolved that the Mayor should urge on the Minister for Public Works the necessity for providing employment for about 60 men near town or on the Seaward Bush railway.