TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1476, 6 March 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Premier left Wellington yesterday to attend the University Senate at Christchurch.'

A Cabinet meeting was held on Thursday,. but.it is understood that nothing of consequence was done, and that the great questions of dissolution and Public Works policy will not be considered till the full Cabinet is assembled at the end of next week. Messrs Larnach and Tole will then be back, K

'The Wellington Hospital staff is to be reorganised and a resident Surgeon appointed for two years with apartments, board, and attendance, and £250 a year. Nothing will now be done with regard to the Government Printing office until Parliament meets. Plans were designed for a wooden building, but it was then proposed to use brick. This will necessitate an increase in the vote, and consequently nothing can be done until Parliament has consented to the increased cost.

The Wellington Harbor Board has increased the salary of Mr Ferguson, the Engineer, from £7OO to £BOO a year, to date from January last. Only ten unemployed applied at Christchurch for work at terms offered 4s a day. Others stand out for ss. They held three meetings in Cathedral Square yesterday ; the first, at ten o’clock, was attended by 150 men. An inquest is to be held at Southbridge to-day (Saturday) on s woman named Macmillan, who died in childbirth on February 25. No doctor was present. Malpractices by the nurse are suspected. The Ashburton County Council has expended £241 6s 7d, in the purchase of small birds and eggs during the past season.