LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 892, 17 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

» . . • [fbom our own correspondent.] WELLINGTON. This Day. The New Zealand Steam Company's steamers, Rangatipa, Stormbird, Manawatu, Jane Douglas, and coal hulk, stores, etc., were sold by auction for £15,500 m one Int. They were bought on behalf •of the Hon. John Martin, Joseph Burne, and David Andei'son, | liquidators of the Company and principal shareholders. DUNEDIN; This Day. The inquest on the fire was yesterday a»ain adjourned until to-day, because the gaoler would not allow the prisoner Waters to leave gaol to attend the inquest without a writ of habeus corpus Application is to be made for the necessary order. Waters was yesterday charged at the • Police Court with arson, and was remanded till Monday. He was charged as William Waters, alias Walter Clair, alias William Wooicock. It has transpired th?*t the Colonial, National, Victoria, and Union offices had a.ll refused a risk offered by Waters on his Cafe. Yesterday the members for the city received the following telegram from the Minister of Public Works : — " I have communicated with Mr. Blair with the view of providing immediate employment to those on whose behalf you have wired me. I apprehend that the unemployed m Dnnedin now consist largely of those who would desiderate the possession of smallholdings of their own which could so far place them beyond the vicissitudes of the labor market, by affording them the means of providing for themselves, when not working for others. It is therefore proposed that power be sought from the legislature to lay off at once village settlements adjacent to some of the railway lines, on the construction of which employment will be found. 1 am m hopes that by this meant* we may largely remove the anomaly of the unemployed m a country m which the term should be practically unknown. — J. Maoandrew."

AUCKLAND. This Day. It is stated that the Chinamen m Auckland, m conjunction with other Chinamen m New Zealand, and backed by a powerful combination of their countrymen m Hong Kong, are about to import a completely organised party of Chinamen of various trades to compete with local workmen, to be followed by similar shipments should the tirat experiment succeed. At the declaration of the Waitemata poll, Mr. J. S. Macfarlane denounced the speech made by the Premier m Auckland as ■ containing gross fabrications to which he (Macfarlane) would reply through the Press ; and if he did not prove the statements to be untrue let people discard him for ever, from Auckland. ' The Hinemoa will urriye at the Manuka\i on Sunday, a.nd will take the Auckland members to Wellington on Monday. CHRISTCEURCE. This Bay. At an inquest yesterday on the body of a child found m tho river Avon, the doctor stated he was unable to say whether the child was born alive. A handkerchief with a name on it was found m the bag that contained the child.