NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 March 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per PEES 3 ASSOCIATION.]

Miners’ Eispute at Waihi

Auckland, March 2(1. The miners’ dispute with the goldmining companies at Waihi, was opened to-day before the Conciliation .Hoard. The miners claim that the men recently dismissed by the Waihi Company should bo reinstated and compensated for loss of time.

Returning New Zealanders. Wellington, March 26. Twenty-five New Zealand soldiers, who have returned from South Africa, sailed from Sydney by the Waihora on Saturday under Serge,. Wilkinson. Election Expenses. Gisborne. March 20, Charles Dunlop, a candidate at last general elec:ion, was fined £2 for failing to send in a return of his expenses. Suspicious Fire at Wairoa. Watroa, March 20. Whiting’s (tailor) promises were found to be on fire on Friday evening, two hags of charcoal being in a blaze. No one lived on the premises and Whiting was vacating (hem next day. At (he enquiry nothing was elicited to convict anyone with the fire, but (he agent of (he North British Mercantile had CIOO in In's name on a stock of wheat he supplied. There was not, however. C 25 in flic shop, and the jury censured him for not seeing that his stock was kept up to the amount of tiro policy. The Yacht Ariadne. Oamaßu, March 20. The Ariadne lies broadside on to the sea a mile south of Waitaki working. A good deal of copper from her bottom is coming away, and her chance of floating seems remote. The crew were unfamiliar with the coast, and were misled by a big, high bank extending along the neighborhood, and were ashore before their position was realised.

utizan’a Life Insurance. Wellington, March 20. The revenue of the Citizen’s Life office for the year just closed exceeded last year’s by £30,000, being the largest on record for the company. The reserve fund now stands at £O-10,000. The new assm anccs within New Zealand amounted to £IOO,OOO. Calliope Dock. The Enginccr-in-Chicf has been instructed to advise the Auckland Harbor Board in the matter of the erection of huge sheer legs required at lire Calliope Dock. Railway Construction.

The Minister for Public Works is confident that the Makohinc viaduct will be completed and trains running to Mangawcka in twelve months. Another Trooper 111. The Premier is advised that Trooper •T. Lammont, of Oamaru, is dangerously ill of enteric fever at Potchcfstroom. Teachers’ Salaries

Nelson, March 2(5. The Education Board meeting to-day decided to point out to the Minister that Nelson and the West Coast is not represented upon (he Royal Commission of Education, and to ask that a representative of the Nelson Educational District be appointed. Government has in llic main agreed with the Board’s proposals re allocation of special grant to salaries. Enormous Surplus. Dux mux, March 2(5. The Hon. Mr. Ward states that if credit is given for the taxation remitted, the surplus this year would have been £700,000. Party Government. Wellington, March 20. At the Women’s Christian Temperance Union resolutions were presented expressing the opinion that Party Government is unsuited to the colony, and that the time has arrived when all disabilities which hinder women from being elected to any public office or position should be removed, and that more severe sentences bo passed on persons guilty of criminal assaults on children. Chess Tournament. Wellington, This Day.

Mason and Barnaul represent the Wellington Chess Club at the championship tournament at Christchurch at Easter.

Yolunteeriog. Wellington. March 27. It is understood that' the Government proposes to create a new Y ilunteor office of Quarter-master General to rank next to below Commandant, and that Colonel Nowell will bo installed in the position when relieved of the command of the Wellington district by Colonel Porter’s return from Africa. Government Nursery. Government has instructed Mathews, Chief Forester, to start a nursery of thirty acres, between Trentham and Upper Hutt, from which to supply young trees to forest reserve on the Rimutaki Range. A Waterspout. Dunedin, This Day. A waterspout at Strath Taieri on Sunday night washed away the switchback road and centre road between springs and rock and pillar. All tbe culverts in (he neighborhood were badly damaged, and fences destroyed. The residents in the immediate locality likened the flood to a stream three times the.'width of the Taieri River.