TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 9280, 27 July 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Monday. A meeting the unemployed waa held this .morning, when angry remarks wore made about tbe Government being dilatory, and the refusal of the Mayor to start work or address the meeting. It was resolved to send another telegram to the Government that men are waiting for relief. Two men, believed to be Caffrey and Peon, the Barrier murderers, wore seen yesterday at Waitakererei by tho stationmaster, and the settlers and police are scouring tbe buah to-day in hot pursuit. Among the through passengers by tbe Mararoa were the Hon. Mr Baring (of Baring Bros., bankers) and Professor Cnancy, the Spiritualist. The Mararoa is to bo fitted with a new propeller at Sydnoy, tho present one being too small. She made the run in Beven hours uuder contract time. WELLINGTON, Monday. The Southern portion of the San Francisco mail left by the 5.3. Waihora at 3 o'clock. The Government have received telegrams from Hawke's Bay and the Bay of Plenty districts that the natives are col lecting goods for the Tarawera sufferers, and that from the former district it is expected 30 tons will be sent. iThe natives on the West Coast of this island are said to be making efforts to send assistance to those in need. Alexander Christensen, a carpenter, was killed by a fall from a horse on Saturday. He leaves a wife and five children. CHSISTCHURCH, Monday. A case of stabbing occurred here tonight in which the perpetrator waa Geo. Brown, a lodging-housekeeper, and the t-uft'erer a young man named Thomas McMahon. It appears that Brown had been the worse for liquor all day and quarrelling with McMahon. In the evening, as the young man was going into the dining room, Urown rushed at him wilh an open pocket knife. McMahon knocked down his assailant, but ho rose and slabbed him on the loi't hip. Brown was overpowered, and subsequently arrested on a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. DUNEDIN, Monday. The death of the boy Smith at Lawrence last week resulted from natural causes. There was a large attendance at the funeral of the late Mr John Hyde Harris, which, as deceased tiad been Provincial Grand Master, was a Masonic one. Thirty -five of the unemployed are to be given work on the Olajjo Central works.