NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6416, 12 December 1899, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(By Ttltjwh-Piw Aitocklml. Auckumi, Monday. Rospeoting the disappearance n Kaipara of Captain Olesen, his boa "*• was discovored yesterday on Fit! Gerald's Spit, nbont three miles froti the ship, There cannot be any doub he was nccidently drowned. Hi leaves a wife in Porsgrnnd, Norway having married three months bofon his departure on the voyage to New Zoaland. His wife was to havo me him in Liverpool on his arriva thoro, The boat had evidently capsized r through the main sheet having been made fast. When found the boal «|S half buried in the sand, and ore wore no signs'of the captain's | body. | It may be romomberod that Cap> tain Olesen, who was mastor of the barque City of Agra, left the vessel in ono of tho ship's boats on the Ist inst., taking somo fishing-lines with him. He remained fishing near tho barqtio for about twenty minutes, y and then sailod across towards the opposite shore. The ill-fnted skipper had been in command of tho City of Agra for about a yoar. Nedsos, Monday. The Nelson Methodist Synod concluding its session this morning. The Roy J. S. Smalley was elected reprosontative at the coming conference in Auokhnd. A resolution was passed strongly supporting Biblerliding in schools. Auckland, Monday. i It is stated that the Rev DrHosking, who unsuccessfully contested the Waikato seat, has been invited to take charge of the Free Mothodist Church here; also that lie has jiived ft call from a church in CTtistchurcb. He has not decided upon anything at present beyond a trip to Melbourne. CiiHisrcuußCH, Monday. The Court of Arbitration was engaged all this morning hearing < legal argument on tho objootion raised by the employers that tho grocery trade did not come within the scope of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Tomorrow the builders' dispute will bo taken. Tho president stated that he would, if possible, make an announcement with regard to the grocers' case to-morrow morning. Dunedin, Monday. A man iiamed Henry Cowan fell », over a face at Bannookburn on election day, He was not found until mid-day on Friday. He was alive then but died shortly after, A verdict of accidental death was returned. The carpenters' and joiners' dispute was before the Conciliation Board to-day, The. Amalgamated Society of Corpeuters and Joiners asked for a week of forty-four luws; pay at the rate of Is djd per bo%'; overtime, time and a half preference to unionists, etc, Mr Reid , and Mr Gray objected to being made * parties, and qnoted a decision of Justice Edwards in the engineering dispute in Christoburcb, The Board over-ruled the objectionatthat stage; also a request from Thomson, Bridger and Co. to exclude them in accordance with a decision in Auckland. Atfer hearing the statement of each side the Board adjourned to Wednesday to give its decision.