YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

The Postal Bill. Received this day at 9 3 a.m. Melbourne, This Day. The Senate rejected the amendment to the Bill that all Ocean mail contracts should stipulate the employment of white labor on steamers. New Zealander Receives a Commission. Wellington This Day. News by the mail from the Capo states that Vernon Stewart, son of Major Stewart M.H.R. has accepted a Commission in the Imperial Regiment. Municipal Abbatoirs. It is understood that the committee of the City Council has selected a site at Ngahauranga for the Municipal Abbatoirs. Licensing Difficulty. No judgements were given in the Appeal Court this morning The Bench sat as the Supreme Court, to hear a motion to quash the granting of a license to the Hotel Commonwealth at New Plymouth. The ground of the objection is that what was done amounts to an attempted evasion of the provisions of the Licensing Acts against the removal of licenses. Wreck of a Barque. Auckland, This Day. Tire Norwegian barque Norden, from Capetown to Fiji, was wrecked on a reef at Suva on June 27th. Tire hull Iras been purchased by tire Union Steamship Company. There is little hope of floating tire vessel. Present to the Duka. Tukino, chief of lire Ngatiiuwharetoa tribe, has left for Wellington with a fine model of a Maori carved house, which he presented to the Duke of York. The Maori addresses will be placed inside the house and shipped to London.