TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1928, 2 November 1888, Page 28

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Mr Mitchelson will only stay about a week in Melbourne, and will probably return to New Zealand on the 12th or 19th prox., via the Bluff. Various urgent official duties preclude his ab^ senting himself longer from this colony. Ifc is possible that the Premier may go South to meet Mr Mitchelson on his arrival at the Bluff, and that the two Ministers may then pay their promised visit to the route of the Otago Central railway and to the Southern and Western goldfields. Constable Franklin, of Mahakipawa, effected a very clever arrest at the Waikakaho diggings on the 25th. Three men stuck up a butcher in a dray while he was on his way from Cullensville (Mahakipawa diggings) to the Mahakipawa creek, and robbed him of £4 odd. The matter was reported to the police, and Constable Franklin succeeded in arresting one of the trio at Waikakaho and lodging him safely in Blenheim Gaol. The other two men are still at large. The revelations of the Otago Daily Times as to the "sweating system" in Dunedin have attracted attention all over the colony. The following are given as Auckland prices to women : Men's trousers, well made, 2s 9d per dozen ; boys trousers, Is 6d per dozen ; men's shirts 4s, and boys' 2s per dozen. In one case three women, with two good sewing machines, earned jointly 30s a week. These rates are said to be paid by " shining lights " in the city. It is computed that the Jubilee Steam Ship Company, of Auckland, have sunk nearly £4000 in. their competition with the Northern Company. On Friday three lads— John Fletcher, Herbert Fletcher, and Heury Holmes, ranging from 14 to 17 years— were oommitted for trial for killing a number of youug piga belonging to Hancock Bros, at Middleton. They went to the piggery on two consecutive Sundays and wantonly kicked and stoned the animals to death. They had no grudge against Hancock, their actions being prompted by sheer brutality. . The settlers of Kurow purpose entertaining Mr T. Duncan, M.H.R., at a banquet shortly, when they will present him with a gold watch a,nd chain in recognition of the stand he_ took against the District Railways Act last session. At a meeting of tue Oamaru Harbour Board the chairman gave notice of his intention to move at the next meeting— 4 ' That the question of the reduction of charges on shipments of frozen meat be considered with a view of securing direct shipment Home." Mr John Church, who was au applicant for the position of valuator to the Waiareka district under the Property Tax Act, was passed over at the time the appointments were made, although he was unanimously recommended for the position by the Waitaki County Council. Feeling aggrieved, Mr Church wrote to the Premier requesting an explanation and asking for an inquiry, particularly as he averred that Mr Lewis Fenwick, who received the appointment, did not send in an application within the advertised specified time, but only applied after receiving a telegram from Wellington asking him to~ put in an application, On Friday last Mr Church received a reply from Sir H. Atkinson stating that the Government declined to appoint Mr Church a valuator on the ground that he had been an aspirant for political honours at the last election of members of tho House of Representatives. The Primera sailed from Oamaru for Home on Saturday night with a cargo of wheat shipped by Messrs Cunningham and Stead, Christcburch. Prior to her departure, Detective O'Brien cleverly arrested a man named Patrick- Daly, wanted by the police on a charge of deserting his wife and three children. The detective suspecting that Daly had shipped at the last moment as a sailor on the Priraera, procured a small boat and pulled to the outer anchorage where the barque was unfurling sail to get under weigh. Ho managed to secure his man, and took him ashore. The case of Grant v. Manawatu Road Board at Wanganui was concluded on Mor« day, after lasting nine days. Plaintiff claimed £900 damages in consequence of the alleged flooding of his laud by drains constructed by the road board. A three-fourtbs verdict was taken, tho jury finding for plaintiff with damages at £173 15s 6d, with costs. A certificate for eight days' hearing and extra allowance for cGuusel wod given. Tho co.sts will be euorrnoufi. Mr H. Law (late Bank of New Ze*lard manager at Adelaide), before leaving Auckland for tbo South, lefb decisive instructions with his solicitors (Messrs Hesketh and Richmond) to prosecute the bank's Committee for the language made use of in' their report, and to prosecute the New Zealand Herald for the language ueed by them in tbeir article on the 23rd mat. The damages in the first case are laid at £20,000, and in the second at £10,000. Mr Law has arranged to return to Auckland at any time his solicitors require bis presence thorp. An accident happened to the ship Opawa aS she was slewing round after entering Oamaru m Monday last. The wind changed wbcu tie vessel had entered the harbour and her h.;ci r;f was dropped. In slewing round she passed over her anchor, and a small hole was made in uer bottom. She began to leak, but ib was sonoo time before this was discovered. As soon as « was found out a gang of men .were put go w pump, and in about an hour they had recucea the water in thejvessel Bin.

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