LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 932, 24 October 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ — . [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. This Day. - The steamer Agnes has not yet repaired the Cook Strait Cable.. A deputation of working men waited on the Government yesterday, and were promised that work would be given them on the West Coast Railway, and free passes granted to those wishing to go to other parts where there are .better prospects of work. ># At a meeting of the oreditors of Lewis Lioss, a draper the deficiency was stated to be nearly £7,000, which he said had gone in business losses. AUCKLAND. This Day. Two representatives of Lincolnshire farmers are on the way out from England to report on the land in Auckland for settlement. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. A man named Wills was arrested at Pakaia, charged with criminally assaulting a child five years old. A Trade Protection Society has been established among the shopkeepers at Lyttelton, to compare notes and guard against persons who' go round getting credit without pying anybody. DUNEDIN. This Day. It is said that Mr. Booth, of Hyde, has put together the only perfect Moa skeleton in existence. Justice Williams yesterday granted a rule nisi against a solicitor, lately member of one the leading firms, on a motion to strike him off the rolls. A member of the firm showed that the solicitor in question had largely misappropriated the firm's money.