Monday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 13, 18 July 1884, Page 11

Monday.

A meeting of the unemployed was held oa Saturday night at the Chnstuhurch Dnllshed, whentthe Mayor and Messrs. Holmes, Joynt and Crewes delivered addresses. A telegram from the Government \va* read, offering employment to 30 men at trenching at Rolieston • the xnea to be takeu by an early tiain siud return at night so as lo' avoid the necessity for living away from their homes ; the wages to be 4s Cd per day. The meeting decided to petitio i by telegraph for A pair of horses bolted with a brake at the Woodville end of the Mauawatu Gorge on Friday night, and the brake, with five occupants, was thrown over the cliff into the river bed. Two of the ladies were injured, and the rest escaped unhurt. Of the iniured one the wife of the Her. J. Worboys, is in a critical state from internal injuries, and Mrs. Lawey had her foot crushed. , A report is current that the German Government intend to start a system of colonisation in the islands of the Pacific. Ministerial and Opposition caucuses Are now actively organising for the purpose of agitating respectively for and against the Reform of the Franchise Bill.

It has transpired that the French Government has decided to grant China eight days in which to agree to the payment of the required indemnity before steps are taken by France to seize a material guarantee for reparation for the Lang-son outrage. The Marquis of Normanby, late Governor of Victoria, has proniis«d to support the views of the colonies, and to advocate the desired protectorate over New Guinea. The London Echo denounces colonial agitation on this subject, and asserts that it is folly on the part of the British Government to oppose the colonisation schemes of France and Germany in the Pacifij. Telegrams from Marseilles repot t that the cholera is still raging there, uo less than 53 deaths having occurred on Wednesday from the disease. Latest news from Toulon states that the epidemic is somewhat abating.