TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1975, 28 November 1889, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

It is stated that one of the banks at Christchurch has arranged to pay the travelling expenses of their clerks to the exhibition, and to provide them with quarters during their visit to Dunedin. Tirailleur has been scratched for the Exhibition Cup. After the procession at Dunedin on Tuesday, the members of the Loyal Orange Institution held a meeting, when the following resolution was passed:—“Having learnt that men have been employed in the Govsrnment workshops and exhibition buildings during last and some previous Sundays, the Loyal Orange Institution express strong disapprobation of the conduct of the Government and Commissioners in requesting men to work on Sunday on pain of dismissal, and consider it an infringement on the social and moral rights and privileges of the working classes;” The resolution is to be sent to the Premier and the President of the Exhibition. A heavy rainfall in Southland has paused floods in the country, and ! crops have beenidamaged in some quarters. A portion of ballast on the Riverton line, is carried away through i the flooding of the Oreti river. Lowlying lands adjacent to the Aparima, Mataura, and Oreti are submerged to some extent. The Invercargill butcher who purchased the bullocks alleged to be diseased with cancer asserts that only one was diseased, and that he had boiled down for tallow. The other was healthy, and worth the price paid , for the two, He ; declares / that the high price he gave, £4 2s 6d each, was due to competition, the price starting at 80s each. The body of Ah Yalk,, a Chinaman, was exhumed at Napier on Sunday on account of .the expressed belief of Dr Menziea, hospital surgeori, that he had been strangled, : It being suggested 'that poison might have' been administered, portions of the stomach were secured for analysis.

At Wellington, the special jury in the case of Maloney v. the Queen returned a verdict for plaintiff for £495. This was an action brought by Daniel Mahoney against the Government for the recovery of £825 as commission at the rate of 2J per cent, on the estimated cost of erecting a new prison and police station at Dunedin. The case is reserved for further argument, as in the second count the jury 'found there . was no special contract—only an implied one.