LATEST TELEGRAMS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2717, 4 February 1892, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association)

(by telegraph.)

Wellington, This day The arrivals in the colony last month exceeded the departures by 736. The lowest tender received for the Te Aro railway extension is £5,600. Tenders ranged up to £B7OO. Id answer to allegations of undue profit to contractors under the co-operative system, the Public Works Department state that no contract is let to any one man. All are let to gangs, one member of which is elected head man to deal with the Department ; but all are on equal footing. The employment of wages men is not allowed under any circumstances on the Eketahuna section, which iB regarded p 8 typical. The rates for earthwork range from 1 s to Is 4d per cubic yard, and other rates are proportioned. The Chief Justice and Judge Richmond to*day refused a writ of certioriari in the Wanganni Licensing cases. They held that the fact that the teetotal members of the committee had announced before election that they intended to refuse certain licenses did not {invalidate their position. The Picturesque Atlas cases are still going on with varying success. The Company, generally speaking, win those in which delivery of any part is proved ; but where no delivery has been effected they lose, as the defence of misrepresentation is Bucceßafuly set up. Woodville, This day . A boy named Polglaise was drowned ln ,^ e Mangatainoko river yesterday while bathiDg. His body was recovered this morning.