TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10571, 18 January 1896, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(6bk United Pkess Association.)

Aucklakd, January 17.

Tbe Auckland Rescue Society have ap^ 'pointed delegates to invite members of the Society for Opposing State Regulation of Vice to join their body and make a combined effort; to exterminate the social evil.

It is rumoured that a. detachment of the permanent artillery, police, and bailiffs leave for the LiUlo Barrier Island : on Sunday to carry ont iixe recent decision of Mr Norfchcroft, S.SL It is understood lenetalii and some of J«s people-have not yet vacated the island.'7

Wellinston, Jannary 17.

The Crowa-solicitor has issued a writ against the City Corporation at the instance o£ the Government claiming to recover possession of Die" land on which, the shelter sheds stand, near the Queen's wharf. The_ action, which the council intends to defend, will probably ba brought on at the Best: civil sittings of the Supreme Court. ,

Tie Government Have paid theNatives£2ooo for their interests in the Wairarapa lake.

The wife of a local builder and contractor died early in the week, and the'body .was buried yesterday in a bed of concrete at Karori Cemetery.- Thegraye wns dug aboat Bin larger and deeper than usual, and a thick layer of concseta pot down on tie bottom, on to which the coffin was lowered. After the burial servics had been .read the concrete was filled in all toned and on top, thus making one solid block of atone with the coffin resting in the centre. Interments carried out on this plan, it is contended, might take place in any bind of .soil at any depth, and even in the heari of a city, without the slightest , possible danger to the health of the community. " So far as 'is known the burial yestarday -under the conditions stated -wes the first of its kind. Deceased's husband holds strong views on the sanitation question, soA the Tmnsttal interment was in keeping with an, igawmeel made some 10 years ago with another: well-known- citizen to the effect that when a, death occurred in Either family the other ghonld see to the Jmri»tin-» bed of»concrete. ■ ,'...,.' CHEisTCHnECH, Jannary 17. HilE Tajtor, one ot the esndidatesfor (he vacant Beat for Chrietchnrch, addressed a largely-attended' meetingtf electors to-cighfc, making a stroagly Radical-speech. He received X vote of thanks and confidence.