TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1726, 5 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, Friday. The report of the Temperance Vigilance Committee, which has been tacitly ignored by the Christchurch Licensing Committee, was read at the Lyttelton Licensing Committed meeting .today, and elecited a warm discussion. The report states that m the opinion of the temperance people the prohibition of Sunday trading is practically inoperative m. Lyttelton. ' The School Inspector here haying reported unsatisfactorily on the general educational condition of the children attending the district schools, a special committee was appointed by the Board of Education to inquire into the causes and suggest reforms. The Committee presented a voluminous report to the Board to day, chiefly remarkable for fault finding throughout, from the Board itself down to the pupil teachers. Mr 0. C. Bowen has received advice from London respecting the Midland Railway, which show that all difficulties on the side cf the Company have- been removed. • Auckland, Friday. Fully 30 bootmakers are out of work. Under the new agreement, only journeymen and apprentices are recognised, and all improvers are thrown out of work. The Customs authorities, objecting to insufficient accommodation on board the schooner Orpheus, bound for Kimberley, eight of the passengers got over the difficulty by shipping as extra seamen at a sh Hing a month. The Mangawhere Hotel, burned down this morning, was insured by the proprietors, Messrs Brown, Campbell and Co., for £1850 m the New Zealand office, and the; stock and furniture by the lessee, Patrick Lamb, for £1000 m tne same office. The fire is attributed to rats gnawing matches. . . Dunediv, Friday. The Australia, the latest addition to the Union Company's fleet, arrived this afternoon. She is to be put on the coasting trade. Charles Miller, expressman, who was injured by stones from the blast m Dow-ling-street, has served the Corporation with a writ claiming £500 damages. At a meeting of policyholders m the Industrial Branch of the Government Life Insurance Association, it was resolved to petition Government, recommending the closing of the branch here, and a return of the money m full. Ma«}Terton, Fiiday. At the Borough Licensing meeting today, two new houses were granted licenses — Phillips' and Kibblewhite's. The four old licenses were renewed, but extra bar licenses were not renewed. Kumara, Friday. A miner named Peter Smith, a Dane, aged 63, and single, died suddenly on Tuesday moruinV, from rupture of the heait wall.