NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, Oct 27. The new 2£-rater yatch Vira, built by Bailey has been shipped to Melbourne by the Tarawera, her owner G. Palmer being a passenger by the same steamer. The Secretary of the Auckland exhibition ia being inundated with applications for space for exhibits. The promoters find it necessary to prepare for more extensive building operations than was anticipated. Wellington, Oct. 27. Owing to the employment of a couple of non-Union boilermakers from Dunedin by Cable and Company, of the Lion Foundry, the Union boilermakers, five in number have gone out on strike. No question of wages is involved only the principle of Unionism. Mr Cable has explained that he had declined to interfere in the matter and the men had refused to join as the employment was only a temporary character. Christchurch, October 27. A petition in favor of the release of Louis Cheniis and two women in prison for infanticide has been in circulation for some weeks and now bears 6,734 signatures. Dunedin, Oct. 27. Captain Cameron, Marine Superintendent for the Union Company, who leaves for England to-morrow, was entertained by the Company's employees at a smoke concert to-day. The Company's workmen presented him with a gold pin and pencil case and travelling rue.