NEW ZEALAND

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6233, 4 June 1890, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND

(Bt Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, June 3. Mr Alexander Morrison, who his been chief engineer of the R.M.S. Coptic since she has been trading to New Zealand, has resigned his position in order to assume charge of the machinery of the freezing works in course of erection at Longburn on the WellingtonManawatu railway. The two judgeships of the Native Land Court have been offered to four gentlemen, but they have all declined to accept the sppointment. One of those asked was Captain Freece, the Resident Magistrate at Napier. CHRISTCHURCH. Juke 3. Charles Stewart Gordon Young, 24 years of ' age, for four years confidential clerk to Mr Victor Harris, a money lender, was arrested to day on a charge of misappropriating his employer’s money. It is said that his dofolcatione, as ascertained so far, amount to £739. Ho received a salary of £2 5a per week. Mr Justice Denniston to-day granted an order to compel Mrs White, wife of Josiah White, sentenced to a term of imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy, to pay to the official assignee £2OO given to her by White before he attempted to abscond. DUNEDIN, Junk 3. There is some probability of the Labourers’ Union purchasing the cabmen’s shelter, and asking permission to place it on one of the stands. At the twelfth monthly meeting of the Tailoresses’ Union, it was reported that the membership now totalled 1048. During the year the union had contributed about £IOO as assistance to other unions where difficulties had occurred. It was resolved to loyally support the early closing movement.