SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 852, 8 January 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(rr.oM ock owx correspoxdext.)

WELLINGTON.

January 7. A strike occurred among the " supers" at the Imperial Opera House last evening, | the men, who were paid their wages up I to, and including, last Saturday night, demanded tickets of admission for two for the next piece to be produced, and the manager having de.clined to accede to this request they retaliated by refusing to go on the stage. In this emergency Mr. and Mrs. DarreH, Mr. M. L. Browne, the stage hands, and others hastily donned stage attire and assisted to swell the crowd in the scene in which the King enters London in triumph.

At the Police Court a middle-aged man, who said he was a laborer, came before

Mr. Mansford, R.M., and said he wanted protection. He complained that the boardinghouse-keepers in town were try- | ing to poison him, and added that he had ! saved the contents of his stomach for i analysis. He also declared that the i clergyman from the altar had denounced i him as a thief and a robber. -Mr. Mans- ; ford assured the man that he-vpsislaboring ! under a delusion, and advised nimt;fep sjeadily to work an&riot let suchftfancies; Jake poss'ession/ofsiia' mind"i> ?Oi ";/%r. II;; Thte Railway Department lis Nraiking: great'efforts to meet! the requirements of the'ifcoming gram/spa'son ; but .at -isvfeare<d ; that the supply of trucks will be-inade-quate for the work of transport. The season will commence inaboutthree weeks. The crops are better than was anticipated. .At a meeting of the - Acclimatisation Society yesterday, it was stated that over twenty-thousand trout were distributed this season.