TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 841, 24 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

e WELLINGTON. December 23. Since the tramway has been running only six of the poorest kind of cabs have been run off. The working classes are subscribing freely towards the anti-Chinese fund in aid of the seamen on strike in Sydney. There is a great improvement in the health of the fever patients by the Hermione. The Governor and Lady Normanby have gone into mourning on account of the death of the Princess Alice. In the case the Queen against Stennall, a smuggling case heard some short time ago, an application for a rule absolute was made, calling upon the prosecutor to show cause why the conviction should not be quashed. The rule was discharged with costs. AUCKLAND. December 23. Mr Macandrew has left for Taupo. He goes overland to Napier. Charles Burton, confectioner, lias been fined LI for holding an art union of Christmas cakes. A house occupied by Mr. Lavery, at Epsom, has been totally destroyed by fire. It was insured in the New Zealand oillec for L 175. Messrs. Faithful and Roberts have been fined for landing sheep infected with scab at Onehunga. NAPIER. December 23. The polling to-day for the L 70.000 loan was 315 for and 121 against ; majority for loan, 194. Under the scheme proposed by the Council, there will be no increase of rates except to those who are living on the hills and are outside the water supply, and who are now paying only Is 6d in the pound. These will in future have to pay 2s Od in the pound, the same as the others. $ DUNEDIN. December 23. The evidence in the case of Stanford v. Gillies and others was concluded this evening. Counsel did not address the jury, and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, subject to the lean (?) of the case being in his favor. At a meeting of the Amalgamated Carpenters' and Joiners' Society, the following resolution was carried:—"That we view with alarm the continued influx of Chinese, and heartily co-operate with our fellow men in Wellington to put a stop to it ; and that a fine of LSO per head should be imposed on all captains of vessels bringing Chinese to New Zealand.