TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 10200, 4 July 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, July 3. Judge GiUiea refused an application for a mandamus to compel tho City North Licensing Committee to grant renewals ofliseuses to four hotels they closed at the recent sittings. ( : A rae&ting of the oroditors of T.-Mor-rioj held to day , was adjourned until the 12th iußt, 'The debtor's statement showed that hia liabilities amounted to L1 7,334,0 f which L 13.196 is due to T. find S. Morrio and Co., in whioh company he was a large shareholder, hie shares having, however, been ohurgod with certain sums due to the company. His aeaete amount to Ll7lO and some mortgaged propettiea valued at L2OOO. A young man named Wm.- Taylor poisoned himself with strychnine to-duy at Taupiri. The causa of the aot is said to have been disappointment in love. . SoveraUcases of drapery belonging to a large wholesale Home firm were seized to* day by the Customs. • WELLINGTON, July 3. ; At the meeting of dentists' delegates a Dental Association for New Zealand haa been formed. Thu first annual meeting is to be held at Dunedin during next January. Mr Boot,- of Dunedin, is elected president; Mr Edwin Cox, of Auckland, vice-president, and Mr Frank Armstrong, of Dunedin, secretary and treasurer. NAPIER, July 3. At the meeting of the Borough Council the new Charitable Aid BMjwas diecuesed. All the members who" had seen 'the bill condemned it unreservedly, and great surprise was expressed at the Government nut following the usual course and seading to the local bodies a bill which so vitally concerned tliOui. No -motion was passed but a special meeting was arranged for. GISBORNE, July 3. A Customs officer has made a seizure of three barrels of Dunedin beer insufficiently stamped. CHRISTCHUROH, July 3, The Sydenham poultry show hold today was a great success, there being 610 entries. There was keen competition in Langshans, Plymouth Rocks, and pigeoos especially so. The pigeon race from Timaru was won by H. Smith's Savage in 2 hours 13 initiates against a heal wind. DUNEDIN, July 3. Mr Solomon," chairman of the Buuevo lent Trustees, at tho moetiog to-day, drew attention to the increased cost to the city ot Dunedin of charitable aid under the proponed new Act. Under the old Act the contributions pud by the city to the Oharitablo Aid Board was L 1758 ; under the new Act it would be L 3753, irrespective ot tho cost of administration, being an increase of LI 994 per annum. Adim Fruuk, autamaD, was fined in the mitigated pt»u«ity of LI 17s 6d for taking ashore a box of cigars and a bottlo of Florida water. At a meeting of tho Ota-^o Educational Institute to-day the question oE forming a Teachers' Union cropped up. Due mtmbar put the question direct — Do you want a union '?— but the replies were about equal for and against. It appeared to be the general opinion that the time was approaching when a union wouid be forced npon them. No definite steps were taken, but the conclusion come to was not to lose sight of it.