NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 135, 6 December 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Christchcech, Dee. 5. A public meeting was held last night to consider the surplus labour question, when the following resolution was adopted : — " The Association of Surplus Labour and sympathisers respectfully solicit the co-operation of the general pnblic, together with the local M.H.R.'s, to urge upon the Government the necessity of providing an outlet for the surplus labour of the colony by establishing co-op-erative settlements and providing immediate work for those in need." Messrs Collins, 6. J. Smith, and G. W. Russell, M-H.R.'s, were present. The case against Joseph Prince, late money steward of the Chriatohureh branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineer!, who is charged with the embezzlement of Ll2O of the tends of the Society, was\ taken to-day at the Police Court and adjourned. Duhedin, Dec. 5. Samuel Lißter, proprietor of the Otago Workman, was convicted of criminal libel on Adams, a solicitor, and sentenced to three months' without hard labor. The committee of the Chamber of Commerce has resolved to write to the Go* vernment in support of the Canterbury Chamber's resolution recommending the establishment of a training' Ship for boys, provided such ship is not to be used at a reformatory, and that if a reformatory is established it should be in a separate port. Wellington, December 6. Arrived— Hauroto, from Sydney. She bringf 118 passengers for all ports, 52 landed here. The charge of abortion against Mrs Brown is not likely to finish before to* morrow night. Great interest is being taken in the application for a new licensed house at Newtown. The court is crowded. Auckland, Dec. 5. The Rev. Shirley Baker has received, by the San Francisco mail, the diploma of LL.D. in appreciation of his work in Tonga in framing the constitution of Tonga, codifying the laws, and compiling educational works. A delicate operation has been performed by Dr Girdler on the injured jockey Say at the Hospital. Three of the verbetral bones have been removed in order to take the pressure off die spinal oord, and though somewhat easier the lad remains in a critical ftate.