LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 222, 23 May 1885, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Dunedin, Mny 14. At the Phoenix mine, at Skippers, Joseph and James Mitchell, lather and son, were killed while taking out quartz. It is presumed that the accident. was caused by the ground being loosened by dynamite charges. The Women's Temperance Union have resolved to petition against the ivnplovment of females as barmaids in public houses. Christchurch, May 1(3. Mrs Leavett has formed a branch of the Women's Temperance Union here with 44 members, Mrs Packe, widow of the hue Colonel Paeke, being president. The Union has commenced operations by getting up a petition to the Legislature against the employment of barmaids. Reefton, May 17. In the Magistrate's Court on Saturday W dter Williams, chairman of the Inangalma Council, was charged on the information of a ratepayer of the county with a breach of the 73rd section of the Counties Act, 1876, in having: voted on a motion awarding himself a salary of <£*2oo per annum. The Chairman give both his original and casting vote for the motion, and these facts were not denied. The Magistiate ruled that the Chairman, in so doing, had rendered himself liable to th« penalties provided for councillors voting j upon a motion in which they have any interest apart from an interest in common with the public, and ftned defendant five guineas and declared his seat tor the riding of Antonio yacant.