TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1018, 6 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

1 [pick press association.] The Minister of Justice. WVllingxon, To-day, The Hon Mr Conolly loaves for Picton this afternoon to spend his Christmas holidays at home. He returns early in the new year. At Last 1 Hamilton, To-day. The Waikato Times this morning states that the long-neglected districts of Whatawhata and Raglan are at last about to be connected by telephone. Sporting News. Wanoandi, To-day. The following addaMonal entry has been made for the Wanganui Jockey Club Flying Stakes Mr O. Williams's Danebury. The Unemployed. Christchurch, To-day. A meeting of men recently discharged from the temporary employment provided by the Government was held this morning. Over 100 were present. A deputation subsequently waited on the Mayor requesting him to communicate with the Government with a view to getting employment for them, calling attention at the same time to the fact that work had again been found for the unemployed in Otago at 6s per day. The Mayor promised to do all he could for the men. The Bible in Schools. Dunedin, To-day. At the Dunedin Presbytery the Rev Mr Copeland gave notice of an overture for ; the Synod, asking the latter to take steps to bring about an amendment of the .Education Act, so that daily reading of the Bible during school hours may be aooompliahed. Fatal Accident-, George Townsend, a driver on the Castle street tram car, by soqie nnaccqunt- , able means foil oyer the splashboard an<] - held on" to the reins of the horses. He slewed round, the hind wheel of the car passing over his body. He died two hours afterwards at the hospital.