LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2950, 23 November 1900, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

■ «©■’ Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, November 22. A fatal accident is reported to have occurred at Whanaki, the victim being a man named William Montague. He was crushed by a log which roiled over him, and he died from his injuries. A boy named Archibald Lennan, in the employ of Dudcr Bros., racehorse owners of Devonport, was kicked on the head while dressing a horse. His skull was crushed, and the lad died in ten minutes. A married woman named Eliza Jane Codlin, who had been admitted to the hospital on 1 the 14th instant, died yesterday. The circumstances connected with her illness are such that an inquest was considered necessary. After evidence of identification had been given, the inquest was adjourned till next Thursday. On Monday morning next the Hon. HallJones, accompanied by a number of members of Parliament, will pay a visit of inspection to the railway works now in progress beyond the Porootarao tunnel on the Main Trunk Railway. The party will make a trip as far down as Taumaranui on the Upper Wanganui River, and on the ride back a short divergence in order to see the Ohura Valley, in connection with the proposed Stratford-Kawakawa. light railway scheme. On his way south, by way of the West Coast, later on, the Minister intends to go in from Stratford along the East road (Stratford railway routed, and note the country which the light rail way would open up. The Minister and party will spend two or three days up countrv, and will return to Auckland towards‘the end of the week. Messrs F. Lawry, G. Fowlds, and other M.H.R.’s will visit the railway works with the Minister.

WELLINGTON, November 22.

The Premier left to-night for Greymouth. About a dozen weddings were celebrated in Wellington yesterday. Amongst them was the wedding of Miss Molly Richardson, daughter of the Hon. Edward Richardson. C.M.G., formerly Minister of Public Works, to Mr J. A. Tripe, solicitor. The shorthorn bulls which Mr Gilruth is to purchase in England will be kept at centres of the dairying industry (at the State farms where practicable), and placed at the service of a limited number of cows, which are to be carefully selected, after examination as to fitness for breeding purposes. The stallions will be kept at the State farms, anl their services regulated by a similar restriction. ’ The first consignment of Lyddite shells and cordite for the big guns of the colony’s forts arrived by the Rakaia. Reports received by the Labour Department from its various agencies indicate that there have been very few applications for employment during the past month, and that aH Vlio desire work can easily obtain it. The Wellington Drivers’ Union in its case placed before the Conciliation Roard, demands eight hours a day or 44 hours a week; £2 10s minimum wage for drivers of two horse vehicles; £2 5s one horse; Is 3d per hour for casual drivers when the minimum wage is £2 ss, with a. proportionate increase in case of higher paid drivers; £2 10s a week for tram drivers and dust cart drivers; Sunday work to be the only work of necessity, and to be paid for at 2s 6d per hour; preference to unionists.

CHRISTCHURCH. November 22.

Charles Bowden, who was arrested on the charge of having caused (he death of Mary Violet Brown, aged 27, (he wife of a. Lyttelton wharf labourer, was brought up at Lyttelton to-day and remanded for eight days. DUNEDIN, November 22. At the Wesleyan District Synod a petition against the sale of liquor in the King Country was signed by the president and secretary for the Synod. It was resolved to recommend the” conference to urge the -nuas dots o/sdap: mpn qtratntua.vo*) dalons sly-grog sales in the TCing Country.