TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1713, 20 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united pkess association. ) Auckland, Wednesday. Some interesting revelations were made at the Unite.! Charitable Aid Board by the Believing Officer and Inspector of Industrial Institution as to how children are got inlo industrial institutions. Inveroargill, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day the tax put upon the district funds by the influx from other localities of destitute women about to become mothers of illegitimate 'children was the subject of discussion* It was resolved to pay the expenset of seeding such persons back whence they came. A committee was appointed to take preliminary steps towards ths erection of a home for the/aged «nd infirm. Napter; 'Wednesday. Among the applicants for the office of wharfinger were the following ; — A contractor, a manager of a boiling down establishment, a- bank clerk, two railway station-masters, a policeman, a stationmanager, a seaman, a storeinan, and two pursers. At the Board of Education to-day a return was submitted, showing nearly 2000 children not attending sohool for want of accommodation. It was also shown that m the last five years' matters had become worse instead of better^ the Board not having been able to keep pace with the rapid increase of population. At the Harbor Board to. day it was reported that * man m Weilirigtbn is applying; for a patent' for* a mtthod of submarine blasting. '•'•.■ The' Engineer stated that the process was not. new, having been used by himself arid other engineers both m Europe and New Zealand ; but if the applicant succeeded m getting the patent, the Board might have to pay a heavy royalty, forusing it. :The Board decided to oppose the issue of the patent. - ; -'.-.:"

HbfciTiKA., Wednesday. A small cottage was burnt this morning m North Bevell-stveet. It was insured m the South British for £150, and m the Victoria for £100. It appears that when Mr* Hall, the owner, made tie proposal for the Becond policy •• she dd not disclose the existence of the first, and did not give the first office notice of the additional insurance. The policies aie consquently nullified. -Dunedin, Wednesday. A report current to-day that Mrs Irvine was dead is untrue. She recovered consciousness, but only for a few minutes. She is still m a critical state. The inquest is proceeding. Mr J. C, Brown received a vote of confidence at Lawrence, the Chairman declining to receive an amendment to the effect that Mr Brown should not support the Government unless they reduced the Estimates by £240,000. GiitTiSRTON, Wednesday, Mr Bon Se well, one of- Messrs Booth arid Co.'s^uvplcfyes, " died from the effects of an-accidflot at the mill this afternoon. He lived about an hour. Deceased was an old settler, and had been working for Messrs Booth and Co., for many years. . , Grbymouth, Wednesday. The Westport Coal Company's shaft at Wallsend bottomed on coal this afternoon at 320 feet. The bottom of the shaft will be all clear by midnight. The seam is 27 feet thiok, and consists of bright, hard coal. Christchoroh, Wednesday. The Mayor has received numerous applications for relief from sufferers by the late floods. It is estimated that the durnagd to the roads, &c, m Lyttelton oan be repaired at a cost of £180. Dm ing the storm the premises of Mr Cowlin, at Governor's Bay, were destroyed by one of the creeks running down the hillside becoming diverted irom its course. The house was crushed to the ground, its inmates, Mr and Mrs Cowlin and their invalid daughter, escaping through a broken window. The daughter had to be dragged out m her night- Iress.