LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 560, 22 October 1897, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. Wkllington, This Day. A deputation consisting of members of the Charitable aid conference waited on the Premier and the Hon. Mr Walker this morning and placed before them the decisions arrived at by the conference. Mr Walker said the establishment of labor farms contained one of the truest solutions of the charitable aid question and the Government weie cordially anxious to co-operate with the charitable aid Boards in that direction. Mr Seddon said the desire of the Government was to perfect the charitable aid system. He thought there should be wider representation of charitable aid boards and was of opinion that the law respecting wife desertion should be made so drastic that cases would become few and far between. The representations made by the deputation would be placed before the Cabinet. The United Farmers’ Co-operative Association pays a dividend of six per cent, a bonus of two per oent, and carries forward £9OO. Auckland, This Day. News from Fiji, per Poherua, states that 49 Natives were sentenced to terms ranging from two years’ imprisonment with twenty lashes to one year, for participating in the recent fight at Nakelo Kewa. The sentences have been appealed against. A man named Mantelli was committed for trial at Fiji on a charge of the murder of a trader at Lanna, New Hebrides. At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Samuel Adams, storekeeper, of Paeroa, who has been arrested on a charge of arson, it was resolved to ask the Official Assignee to take steps to prosecute him under the penal clauses of the Act in connection with the books. The assignee stated that a charge of perjury was also to be laid against Adams in connection with his alleged loss o the ledger, which was recovered on the beach at the Thames last week. Thames, This Day. McLeay, who was terribly injured at the Owharoa dynamite explosion, is dead. CiiKisTCHURt'H, This Day. The heaviest flood in the Waimakiriri river since 1887 came down to-day. The river was bank high, but so far no damage to protective works is reported. The Kaiapoi harbor dredging plant, which was moored m the channel, is missing, and is either swept to sea or sunk. The flood was caused by a nor'wester melting the snow on the ranges and heavy torrents of rain which have been falling in the back country since yesterday. Obituary—William Wilson, first Mayor of Christchurch. He arrived in 1849, and at one time took a prominent part in public political affairs. Wanganui, This Day. Results of second day's races:— Hack Flying.—Sundial 1, First Shot 2, Novelty 3. Dividend, £8 11s. Owen Stakes.—Return 1, Australia 2, The Onyx 3. Dividend £2 17s. Second hurdles. Fireworks 1, Missfire 2, Muscatel 8. Dividend, £2 IBs.