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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 339, 13 December 1879, Page 2

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(PElt PRESS AGENOT.) - WELLINGTON. PARLIAMENTARY. Friday. The accounts committee reported upon payments of £3O to Reus, for services to be rendered re West Coast natives, stating that full powers ought to be given to enable such payments to be made. When the House was in Committee on the Working Men's Club Sites Bill, Wallis asked why those Clubs should receive such consideration, there beii<g many .oilier institutions which were equally deserving. Kelly said that according to the present definition any body could join together, call themselves a working men's club, and claim land unuer the Act. Andrews considered that these clu! s were gambling hells, and means of licensing places which would not olhenvue obtain a license. Hutchison thought that a working man's elub had as much right to a license as a rich man's club, Grey considered that a club was identical with a Mechanics' Institute. Gisborne thought it libel to say thatworking men could not meet together without drinking and gambling. Bill was amended in certain details, and reported. There was a good deal of opposition in the House )a=t night in order to prevent new business being taken after 12.30, but eventually the House went into Comin.t tee on Estimates, which had been left over. All the items were passed as brought down except in the case of the salary of Under-Secretary, on which £IOO increase was struck out, The House sat till 2.30. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report under date London, 9th instWool sales closed at an average improvement of Hd to 2d per lb, The principal advance has been in cross-bred superior greasy, superior combing washed, medium and inferior washed and scoured. Up to date, 125,000 bales have been sold, and 5,000 bales withdrawn during past sales. 45,000 bales have been taken for export, Best sides leather worth Is Id per lb. DUNEDIN. Thursday

Of the 700 immigrants who arrived this week, not many remain in the barracks. Nine were engaged to-day, and applications for 26 domestic servants could not be supplied, A man was fined to-day for carrying his pickaxe over his shoulder on the footpath. The police will make a raid cu perambulators. Sutherland, who was received into the Tuaptrka Hospital on Monday, died there yesterday. Messrs Lean and Coombes, of Christchurch, are to ba associated with two

Dimediu gentlemen as a committee for the Caledonian Society's gathering, The Tokiimaiviro Agricultural Show tod;iy was partly successful, Tho continued wet weal her. leads to tho apprehension that the crops will be dantatred. ■ Kqith Ramsay has been elected Chairman of the Harbor Board to-day. Members are very indignant at Mr Macandrew's remarks in the House on Wednesday. Suburban municipalities send a petition to the Governor, asking the Government to lend money for making roads, etc., at Richmond. A child was run over by a cab last evening, and had its thigh broken. CHRISTOHURCH. Thursday. It has been finally settled to hold the Volunteer Review here at Easter. The Jockey Club have granted the use of the racecourse for the occasion. ' The following horses wore shipped for Auckland by the Arawata to-day :—'The Agent, Laertes, Pinfire, Lara, Sinking Fund, Maritana, Lone Hand, and Templeton. Friday. Yesterday at the Templars mee ing a resolution wa3 passed calling attention to the continued breach of the law forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors to children smit by thtiir parents to public houses, as a large amount of drunkenness is due to this. GRAHAMSTOWN. Thursday. The Kurunui Hill mine has found q lartz at the 3Goft level. Great demand for shares yesterday, . Sales. Vs 6J to 8s; closing sellers, Bs, The Thames Company announces a dividend of 2s 6d. ,t resolution has been passed asking the Liberal Association to convene a special meeting to consider Stephenson's resolution denouncing the constitutions of the Waste Lands Board. AUCKLAND. Thursday.

The Star reviews the public works appropriation in relation to Auckland and calculates the appropriation for Auckland ut £373,100, Southern provinces (North Island) £516,000, Balance for future appropriation : Auckland, £337,8009 ; southern part North Island, £115,000. Total, Auckland £710,900. Other provinces North Island £1,520,000 It also condemns the omission of appropriation f.ir the Cambridge and north of Auckland railways, the settlers having offered to guarantee 7 per cent, on the cost of the' Cambridge line, Those of Dempsey's men having means intend to me him. Many are absolutely destitute, having worked for weeks without pay, Friday. Keivi is said to be so ill as not likely to re:over. Mr James Mackay, lands purchaser, has written to the Waste Lands Board •laiming the right to purchase 170 acres of the Waitoa Block, advertised for sale. His right is based on an alleged promise iiy the Government.

NAPIER. Thursday. At the Supreme Court, Mela, a Maori was convicted of a criminal assault on a Ljirl under twelve years, and sentenced to one year; Tarsia te Raihi, for perjury, and Eluko Moke for aiding and abetting the flame, the former to three months, the latter to six months; Jane Brudie, larceny six mmifhs; Callaghan and John Thompson, larceny, six months; J. W. Jervis, for forgery, was acquitted. Today was wholly ocoupied with the trial of Edward Luervig, on a charge of setting fire to the Working Men's Club at Norsewood, The jury, not being able to agree, were locked up. REEFCON. Thursday. The case of the Queen (on .the prosecution of James Johnston) against E. J. O'Connor, for perjury at the District Court, Reefton, has been abandoned by the Crown Prosecutor, owing to the unreliability rf the testimony of James Johnston.