TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10478, 29 April 1896, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pbh Unitkd Pbkss Association.)

Mrs Crowe, a resident of Otshnhu, is in a critical condition through bums received through nursing a eiok child almost night and i?ay. She fainted one night and foil over tho fire, capsizing on hertolf a kettle full of boiling water. At & meeting of the Charitable Aid Board, the Chairman (Mr John Bollard) stated that 200 children io Auckland and suburbs were ! being brought up as prostitutes and |.hi«vas. j He urged that these children bu tukeu from I their parents by the State, and put in a special home. The expenditure would be £3000 a year. Gisbokne, April 28. Mr Hill, F.G.S., of Napier, hus reported on the proposed water «i[iply for Uiaburne. He st».tes that except within n limited area the prospects ore not good for an artesian supply, j He favours obtaining water from a creek about 10 miles from the towp, where Ode- facilities are good for building a large reservoir on the hills. The report will be laid before the Borough . Council next week,

The Government to-day purchased 400 acres of.land at Orrnond for oloso settlement from Mr A. B. NeWmnt\, this prioe paid being £20 per acre.

Nafikr, April 88.

1 Two men named Alfred Patersen and j Frederick Power have been arre«ted for highway robbery at Hasting*. It is alleged that ' they attacked a coachman named Prne (in the 1 employ of W. Nelson), felled him to the ' ground, relieved him of valuables and money, ■ and stripped him of hia wearing apparel. The ' victim was found by some Maoris, who attended to him and informed the polica. The arrest • was mede by Sergeant Mitchell and Detective ■ Kirby at Waiputn. Wellington, April 28. i The following gentlemen left to-day to toko part in ths annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand at Durtedin on Thursday :— Messrs M. Niccol (Auckland), Past Grand Master; H. J Williams, Grand Superintendent of Wellington ; W. Bailor, Grand Superintendent of Hawke'e Bay; F. P. Corkill (New Plymouth), Grand Superintendent of Works; and Dr Walker (Auckland), Past Grand Organisi. Chbistchorch. April 28. At a meeting of the Uire Brigades' Demon--1 i stration Committee to-night it was reported that the total receipt* in connection with tho . recent demonstration wmo £876, and the ex- | penditure (including £200 prize money) £595, leaving * credit balance of £281, of which £100 had been voted as a donation to the Brunner relief fund. At the Police d>urfc this meriting James Alexander Rob«rt9on, who was arrested on » charge of inoendiarism ia connection with the Windsor fire, was charged with having a?»anltsd hie wife and threatened to shoot her. He was sentaneed to one mouth's imprisonment, and ordered to fiud two sureties of £25 to keep the peace Tor six months. Accused was also charged with wilfully setting flre to a building, the property of A. Duncan, and was committed i for trial. j The city valuer reported to the council laet ! night tUal; the rateabl* value of the city pro- ' periy for 1895 v«as £189,856. This was less by i £3300 than the amount of the previous year. t In the case of Daniel v. the Union Steam Ship Company, a claim of £200 damages for j injuries sustained while working for the RailI way department at Lyttelton at discharging j cargo fiom the Taluue, Mr Beetham, S.M., j this moruing awarded the plaintiff £150; with | costs (£29 12s). ! The Selwyn County Council have granted j Nelson Bros, a tiliughterhoußo licence for thcic | proposed freezing works »fc Hornby, though tUu j application wan strongly opposed by a number i ' of residents in the district.