TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5108, 7 August 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.)

Auckland, Monday. The meeting of the unemployed was largely attended. Resolutions were passed, urging an appeal to the Government, through the Mayor, to open the railway works on the Kaipara line by day labor; or if contracted for, to prohibit the contractor from sub-letting the work, a system which led to great evils. Also asking the city and harbor authorities to push on the works. A resolution was passed in favor of forming a working men’s society. The proceedings were very orderly. The schooner Jessie Henderson, formerly in the Dunedin trade, was lost at Ramsay Island, South Seas, on the 14th July. The schooner was twelve miles from land, and going eight knots in a steady breeze, when she struck on a reef not marked on the chart. Every device to get her off was tried without effect. The water came in rapidly from a hole forward, and the vessel suddenly settled down about an hour after striking ; the captain and crew had barely time to get over the side into the boat. The chronometer was the only thing saved, the men not even getting their boots. The boat pulled to the island. The crew afterwards reached Levuka, where an inquiry was held. The court acquitted Captain Urquhart of all blame. The schooner was insured for £ISOO in the New Zealand Office.

Mr. Dargaville leaves by the Taupo as a delegate from the Hobson County Council, and from a public meeting at Wairoa, to represent matters pertaining to the Kaipara District.

Among the resolutions passed by the unemployed was one for the stoppage of free immigration. The Trade and Labor Council, composed of delegates of various trade societies, have determined to call a public meeting in support of the agitation of the Dunedin artisans in favor of materials required for railways being manufactured in the colony. The City Council took on 40 men at day labor to-day. A faotball team to play the Dunedin men has been chosen as follows :—King, Henderson, 0. Dacre, W. Robinson, E. Burgess, Warbrick, Nolan, Gudgeon, Merier, Kerr, Carton, J. Macky, Coldbeok, Shakespeare, W. Philson. Emergency men : Mowbray, O. Burgess, T. McKay, Yates, Orchard. New Plymouth, Monday. Horopapura, the native who escaped from gaol a short time since, and for whose body the Government offered a reward of £IOO, was captured by Constable Hughes and John Stapool three miles inland from Inglewood. The men who caught him had to take him by strategem, and then with difficulty got him to town. Horopapura is a man Oft. 3iu. in height, and between 15 and 16 stone weight. He is a very determined character, and is the son of the late chief Hapurona, who successfully opposed the British troops during General Pratt’s first Waitara campaign. Horopapura was undergoing a sentence of three years for unlawfully wounding and nearly killing a native woman. The steamer Taupo passed bn without communicating. The County Council met to-day, when the chairman, Colonel Trimble, brought forward his motion relative to the petition to Parliament against the power for rating for the harbor works, when only six were present, two, however, being away from the district. Mr. Lawrence seconded the motion. Mr. H. Brown moved as an amendment that the subject be postponed indefinitely, which was carried. Messrs. Courtney, Beveridge, and Webster voting for it. Colonel Trimble’s motion was therefore lost. There was great excitement and cheers when the result was announced. Colonel Trimble at the termination of the meeting resigned his position as chairman and also his seat in the Council. Christchurch, Monday. .The railway receipts for June were £22,309, being £7200 less than for April. James Smith, for many years chief clerk at Cobb and Co.’s office, was found drowned in the river'this morning. It is supposed that he committed suicide. At a meeting of operative bootmakers connected with 1 the Union, on Saturday night, it was announced that the hands employed at Toomas’ large factory had signified their intention of joining; but subsequently, finding that Toomas and Son disapproved of it, they withdrew. This action was warmly criticised and condemned by the meeting. A proposal was made to break up the Union, but it was negatived by 22 to 6. It was resolved to take measures to induce bootmakers from elsewhere not to come to Christchurch to seek for work. The football match with Dunedin takes place on Wednesday. Timara, Monday. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day a resolution was brought forward re the way the Resident Magistrate’s Court is conducted, and requesting the Minister of Justice to institute inquiries as to the scene which oocusred last week between the magistrate and Mr. Hamersley, solicitor. The matter was referred to a committee. The Timara Herald characterises the proceedings in Court as a disgrace to both Bench and Bar.