TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10033, 26 April 1894, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Pbess Association.)

Auckland, April 25,

The Rev. Messrs M'Nicoll, Bull, Isitt, Williams, and Mr T. Allan left by the Te Anau to attend the Australasian Methodist Conference at Adelaide.

The Hon. W. P. Beeves, on requisition, will address the citizens of Auckland on Tuesday next. The Liberals of Hamilton desire him also to addreS3 the Waikato settlers there.

Two men, for embezzling cargo from the barqus Lottie Moore, were sentenced to three months'hard labour. ,:

Tha Travellers' Rest Hotel, Southern Wairba, has been burned down. The hotel was insured for £30 and the furniture and stock fpr £230 in the Economic office. The hotel was old, having been buiU during the Waikato war. Aboat £80 worth oE kauri gum stored in the shed was destroyed.

Yesterday the s.s. Richmond arrived from the Rarofconga gronp. Intelligence from the islands is to the effect that Lord Glasgow, during his recent official visit in the s.s. Hinemoa, had made himself very popular with both natives and Europeans. The Richmond brings from Rarotonga a ton of coffee, which the natives have sent to his Excellency as a present in token of their goodwill.

Wellington, April 25.

Amongst the correspondence laid before the Board of Education was a letter from the Otago Board stating that it did not make any distinction between teachers from .different districts in the colony when they were applying for 4 position in its service, and asking whether the Wellington Board was disposed to place all applicants upon the same footing. .The chairman said that the Wellington Board had never made a distinction. A teacher at Te Whiti School had recently come from Dunedin. The board agreed that a rpply should be sent to the Otago board that Ofcago teachers were not boycotted.

A protracted inquiry into the burning of the Union Hotel, at Pahiatua, ended by the jury disagreeing and being discharged by the

Mr Hogg, president of the Wellington Bakers' Union, waited on the Benevolent Trustees regarding the statement made by an applicant for relief at tho previous meeting that her husband had been struck off the rolls of the union because he could not pay his subscription of 6d a week. Mr Hogg said the man had during the past three years paid his entrance fee (£1) aud 3d in subscriptions, and was finally removed solely because of misconduct. They had dozens of men on the books who were unable to pay, and they used their funds almost solely in helping distressed members.

Geeymouth, April 25. Dr C. Morice was appointed resident surgeon and dispensing superintendent to the Grey River Hospital this evening. The salary is £300 a je*r.

Christchuhch, April 25. At a meeting of the Hospital Board to-day notice of motion was given that it is desirable and necessary to have an inebriates' ward established in the hospital.

The question of the appointment of a lady inspector was brought up at the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-day. After a long discussion, notice of motion was given—"That the board advertise, for ladie3 to volunteer to make monthly inspections of all cases in Christchurch and suburban districts, and report to the board apart from the inspector—two for Christchurch, one for St. Albans, and ono for Sydenham." Tha statistics of relief showed that 531 cases, comprising 1413 persons, had received outdoor relief in March. This was an increase of 22 cases on the number during the same month last year.