LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1150, 5 June 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIAtJOS.] Christchurch, June 3. At a meeting of the Association for Fostering Local Industries, held this evening, it was resolved to bold an exhibition of local inanufactvues in the month of August next. A committee was formed to carry out the same, and there can be no doubt but that the exhibition will be secured, as well as being creditable to the Colony, and of great practical importance as an indication of the Colony’s position in arts and manufactures. A servant named Jane Matthews was arrested to-day on a charge of infanticide in connection with the body of an infant found in the river the other day. Dunedin. June 3. Arrangements ate being completed by which the enforcement of the compulsory clauses of the Education Act will in the first instance he carried out by the police in the Dunedin district. Nelson, June 2. About one o’clock this afternoon a fisherman named Antonio Wett stabbed his wife in the back with a long knife, which passed between the ribs. So far it is not expected to prove fatal, but the husband was immediately arrested. The couple have disagreed lor a considerable time, the woman not holding the best of characters. Wett recently left her, and ran away to Auckland, but was brought back on a protective order, and made to contribute to his children, and after a time he returned to his wife. Wellington, June 3, The Hinemoa leaves to-night, to search for the missing schooner Colleen Bawn, which left here bound for Havelock in ballast on Ist May and has not been seen or heard of since May sbh, The Hinemoa will. visit- Port Underwood* Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds, and the adjacent coast as far as Durville Islands. A ship has been seen in the strait supposed to be the Geraldine-with 212 nominated immigrants from London. Auckland, June 3. Some of the unemployed here coniplain that while they were to be kept at the depot till employment Could .be found for them the rations bad been stopped,, also firing and. lights, and the cook house locked up. They claim fulfilment of the original.condition. Disgusting revelations and disclosures of the City Abbatoics’ management have been made in the City Council. Pigs have been kept for a week there, and fed on the remains of a heifer which died of cancer. It is said it also went to make good pork.

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