NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 314, 15 May 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PF.B PBBSs ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 14 The Salvation Army have notified the Charitable Aid Board that their homes are full, and they ask the Board to aid them in relieving the distress among destitute men and women. The Board decided it couldjuot hand its funds over to the Salvation Army, but the \rtnj could send applications on to the Board. This afternoon the new Onohungn Ironworks Company, the members of which are mostly working men who have •farted the ironworks upon • • operative principles, rolled the first sheet of iron The Mayor of Onehunga, with a number of other ladies, was present. Orders are coming in and there is every prospect of the Working Mans' Company making a success of their undertaking. Wellington, May 14. The number of men who applied for shelter had swollen last night to 40, of whom a number had to be refused. Among them was a boy of 16, who had walked from Woodyille, and failed to find work by the way. CHHiSTCinjHcn, May 14. The police are continuing their raid on 11 spielers." At the Police Court to-day, four men were brought up on charges of vagrancy. Charles Curran and Arthur Hinge, alias Thompson, wereeaoh sen 'en ced to six months' imprisonment ; Alfred, alias Walter Miller, to six weeks,, Thomas Harvey, aliaa Austen, discharged with a cautiom, and advised to clear out of the place as fa«t as he could About fifty men haye been given employment in improving the banks of the river, they are paid 4a 6d par day, the money coming from the funds in the bands of the unemployed committee. It has been arranged by the Labour Bureau that next week the wives and families of men who have gone to drainage works in Taranaki district will join their husbands in that district. Already arrangements have been made for fifteen women and sixty children to go.