AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8760, 23 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Sydney, April 22. Arrived : Wakatipu, from Wellington.

News has reached here that the Iroquois has arrived safely at Port Townsend, Washington territory. She was only a few days out when her piston broke ; successive gales drove her 2500 miles to the northward, and the crew suffered great hardship from the intense cold. The damaged machinery was temporarily repaired, but the coal was exhausted on February 15th. The crew were put on short rations until her arrival on March 11th.

The maritime officers of the Union arc making overtures to the Seamen's Union to mutually support each other.

There has been an awful scandal in connection with the Auckland City Council. It appears that Messrs Jagger and Parker wanted the right to place a dam on Edgecumbj's Creek within 150 yards of the auxiliary supply pumping station of the waterworks, for the purposes of a woolscouring establishment*- Twice had this application been referred to a committee of the Auckland City Council for inquiry, and twice they had reported against it as inexpedient. The question had also been submitted to the City Solicitor, who pointed out that serious legal complications might arise, and gave an opinion clearly adverse to the concession. "In the face of these reports," says the Star, "in defiance of the earnest protests and warnings of the Mayer, a majority of the Council went to the meeting on Thursday night and deliberately voted in favour of tying the hands of future Councils for a period of sixteen years, with regard to the protection of the largo public interests involved in our water supply. And for what? The munificent sum of £5 per annum !" The Star further remarks: — " We do not hesitate to say that if the proffered consideration were £500 instead of a contemptible £5 per annum, the Council would be totally wrong in limiting their freedom of action or in waiving one jot or tittle of any water right which they now own at the Western Springs and in Edgecumbe's Creek."

Renshaw's Monarch of Pain is one of those rare medicines which for their extraordinary properties and efficacious resultß have gained a very largo reputation. It stands unrivalled for the euro of cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, ulcers, sores, and all skin diseases ; and as burns and scalds happon unexpectedly, should bo in every household. It is a grateful and healing preparation for goneral domestic jmrposes — Advt.

George Suiter & Co., West Bromwich, England, are now engaged perfecting au automatic " penny Hlot" machine whicli promises to create a sensation. It is a machine for taking photographs by the dropping of a penny into the slot. The mechanism is elaborate yet very effective, and the trials which have just been made are stated to have boon completely successful. Upon dropping the penny into the slot an instantaneous photograph is takou of the pc ""*n, and in exactly thirty seconds a little bell rings, and out comes the photograph, waphod, and absolutely durable, upon substantial tinfoil. By the disposal or an additional half-penny a suitable gilt frame can be obtained from another part of the machine. It is said that 2000 of these machines are to be supplied as soon as the invention, whijh haa been patented, is perfected.