TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 8090, 19 August 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

tPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, TctlaDAr, The R.M.S. City of Sydney sailed this evening for 'Frisco | having had to wait for the southern mails. She has on board j L 104,000 in specie from Sydney. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The tender of Mr Ransom, Wellington, j has been accepted for the construction of the new opera house. The work will be i completed in eight months. I Dr Cnilton has been dismissed by the Government from the position of resident Burgeon of the Wel'ingtoa Hospital. Ho was offered the alternative of resigning, [ but refused, In connection with the dismissal of Dr Chilton all the nurses in the hospital, with the exception of three, have had their services dispensed with. In the absence of the Colonial Secretary Mr Stout 4) night issued instructions that the nurees dispensed with were to be received back into the hospital for-to«nigbt. OHRISTOHUROH, Tuesday. , The Lyttelton lumpers (who are Union men) went on strike this morning, and declined to work the barque Merope. The alleged cause of thfl strike is that the Shaw Savill and Albion Co.'c agents in $*ort Chalmers had employed non-tjnion men to work their vessels thore. The action applies to the cbove Company only. The vessels will bo worked by their crews and such nou-Unioa men as can be procured . At a meeting; of the Railway L n ague Cointtiittee held to-niglit it wag resolved to telegraph to Messrs Holmes aa I Harpor for information as to what is going to be dona in Parliament as to the West Coast railway, as the committee intend to renew th« agitation shouH it be necessary. DUNEDIN, Tuesday, A High S-jhool boy named Walcoit, in climbing ovor a fence, was caught by a ring on his finger on a spike on {he top, and falling, bad his fioger torn o$ and the sinew dragged out of the arm for some nine inches.