NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

PROHIBITIONISTS' CAMPAIGN.

THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY. | Per Press Association.] Wellington, December 4. The Labour Department states the Christchurch unemployed are going via Napier to Nuhaka and not to Gisborne, and that the reports of the Gisborne labor market had been favorable up to yesterday, when an agitation was begun and 60 names were registered, Tbe Benevolent Trustees received a letter from the Private Secretary to the Governor, stating that during Lord Glasgow's visit to Raratonga he was presented with a large quantity of coffee, more than be was ever likely to use and offering tbe trustees the option of takiag one or two sacks (1201bs in sack) in payment of tbe duty of 3d per lb. The coffee is at present on board. Gisborne, This Day. The Prohibitionists have decided on a vigorous campaign in this district. At a meeting of the Borough Council, strong comments were made on the reports of the Labor Journal as to the state of trade and labour here. It was decided to send telegrams to the Hon. Mr Carroll and the Government protesting against men being sent from Christchurch while there is so many unemployed here. Dunedin, December 4 At the Supreme Court yesterday William Edward Hanlon, charged with conn* terfeiting an Imperial stamp was called, but there was no appearance, and the bail of £100 was estreated. It is understood that Hanlon has got away in the Arawa for San Francisco. Judge Williams has issued a warrant for Hanlon 's arrest. Auckland, December 4. A miner named George Cox, blasting with dynamite at Kuaotunu, lighted a fuse, and then put the match to his pipe but before he got out of tbe way the charge exploded, breaking his arm in two places.